LITERARY LANDMARKS 
 OF LONDON 
 
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 LITEEARY LANDMARKS OF LONDON.
 
 LITERARY LANDMARKS 
 OF LONDON 
 
 BY LAURENCE BUTTON 
 
 REVISED AND ENLARGED 
 
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 T. FISHER UNWIN 
 
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 PREFACE TO FOURTH EDITION. 
 
 / T~^HIS edition of THE LITEKAKY LANDMARKS OF 
 LONDON, printed in cheaper and more popular 
 form, has been thoroughly revised; a few supple- 
 mentary Notes have been added by way of Appendix ; 
 and as far as possible it has been brought down to 
 the present time. 
 
 L. H. 
 
 JANUARY, 1888.
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 T ONDON has no associations so interesting as those con- 
 ** nected with its literary men. To the cultivated reader 
 the Temple owes its greatest charm to the fact that it was 
 the birthplace of Lainb, the home of Fielding, and that it 
 contains Goldsmith's grave. Addison and Steele have hal- 
 lowed the now unholy precincts of Charter House Square 
 and Covent Garden; the shade of Chatterton still haunts 
 Shoe Lane ; Fleet Street, to this day, echoes with the pon- 
 derous tread of Dr. Johnson; and the modest dwelling that 
 was once Will's Coffee House is of far more interest now 
 than all that is left of the royal palaces of Whitehall and 
 St. James. 
 
 The Society of Arts, in marking with its tablets certain of 
 the historic houses of London, is deserving of much praise ; 
 but only a few of the many famous old buildings which 
 still exist in the metropolis are thus distinguished, and no 
 definite clew to their position is given, even in the best 
 of guide-books. When the houses themselves have disap- 
 peared, the ordinary searcher, in nearly all instances, has 
 the utmost difficulty in finding anything more than a faint 
 indication of their site. To remedy this in some measure is 
 what is designed in the following pages. They are intended 
 simply as a guide to a side of London which has never before 
 received particular attention. The places of literary asso- 
 ciation in the metropolis and in the suburbs are noted with
 
 y} INTRODUCTION. 
 
 more or less accuracy in the ordinary hand-books and in 
 the thousands of volumes historical, traditional, local, 
 and anecdotal that have been published about the Great 
 City ; but in no single work has any attempt hitherto been 
 made to follow the literary worthies of England to the spots 
 they have known and loved in London as they have journeyed 
 from the cradle to the grave. 
 
 The chief aims of this book have been completeness and 
 exactness. It contains not only a great deal of matter which 
 has never been printed before, but it verifies the statements 
 and corrects the mistakes of the works that have gone before 
 it. Innumerable volumes upon London have been consulted, 
 from Stow and Strype to the younger Dickens ; early insur- 
 ance surveys, containing the number and position of every 
 house in London since houses were first numbered, in 1767, 
 have been compared with similar surveys of the present, by 
 means of tracings and by actual measurements of the streets 
 themselves ; the first maps of London have been examined 
 and compared in like manner with later and contemporary 
 plans ; directories for the last century and a half have been 
 studied carefully ; and it has been possible by these means 
 to discover and note the exact sites of many interesting build- 
 ings, the position of which has hitherto been merely a matter 
 of conjecture or entirely unknown. 
 
 The history of the London Directory has yet to be written. 
 The oldest volume of that kind in the Library of the British 
 Museum was " Published and sold by Henry Kent in Finch 
 Lane, near the Royal Exchange," in 1736, It is a small 
 pamphlet of fifty pages, and the original price was sixpence. 
 It is prefaced by the following remarks : " The Difficulty 
 which People are continually under, who have Business to 
 transact, for Want of knowing where to find One Another, 
 makes such a little PIECE as this very Useful, by saving a 
 great deal of Trouble, Expense, and Loss of Time, in Dispatch
 
 INTRODUCTION. vii 
 
 of Affairs, especially to Merchants, Bankers and others who 
 deal in Notes and Bills of Exchange." x 
 
 This directory was published at irregular intervals until 
 1827. In the earlier volumes, as the houses were not num- 
 bered, only the business streets and the names of residents 
 who were business men were inserted. It was followed in 
 1772 by a rival Directory " Printed for T. Lowndes, No. 77 
 Fleet Street," the price of which was one shilling, and 
 which contained, as the advertisement stated, " An Alpha- 
 betical List of the Names and Places of Abode of the 
 Merchants and Principal Traders of the City of London, 
 and Westminster, and the Borough of Southwark and their 
 Environs, with the number of each House." This series 
 lived only until 1799. The numbers of the houses were 
 given first in Kent's Directory for 1768. 
 
 The official Post Office Directory was first published when 
 Lowndes retired in 1799 ; and the separate Trades and Court 
 departments first appeared in 1841. The initial number of 
 " Boyle's Fashionable Court and Country Guide " is dated 
 1796, and it is continued to the present day. It contained 
 from the outset an irregular court and street directory, both 
 of the City and West ends of the town ; but it was naturally 
 less complete and thorough than the official Post Office 
 Directory of the present day. 
 
 The difficulties met with in the preparation of the fol- 
 lowing pages have been many and great. Old houses have 
 disappeared, streets have been renamed and renumbered, 
 and in many instances entire streets have been swept away 
 in the dreadful march of improvement. It is easier to-day 
 to discover the house of a man who died two hundred years 
 ago, before streets were numbered at all, than to identify 
 the houses of men who have died within a few years, and 
 since the mania for changing the names and numbers of 
 streets began. Dryden, for instance, was living in 1686 in a
 
 yiii INTRODUCTION. 
 
 house ' on the north side of Long Acre, over against Rose 
 Street,' and easily traced now by the Dryden Press, which 
 stands upon its site ; while the house in which Carlyle lived 
 for nearly half a century, and in which he died in 1881, when 
 it was No. 5 Great Cheyne Row, Chelsea, was in 1885 No. 
 24 Great Cheyne Row, with nothing to distinguish it from 
 the new No. 5 on the opposite side of the way. 
 
 The confusion caused by this renumbering and renaming 
 can hardly be expressed in words, nor does there seem to the 
 ordinary observer to be any good reason for these changes. 
 Oxford Street, which Pennant described in 1790 as the 
 longest street in Europe, was considered not long enough, 
 and has been extended by the absorption of New Oxford 
 Street, and renumbered; while the New Road, an equally 
 important thoroughfare running nearly parallel with it from 
 City Road to Edgeware Road, was deemed too long, and has 
 been divided into Pentonville Road, Existon Road, and Mary- 
 lebone Road, and of course renumbered. The following 
 note, quoted in full from the London Post Office Directory 
 for 1882, will give some faint idea of the confusion of 
 numbers : 
 
 That part of Oxford Street which lies to the west of Tottenham 
 Court Road has been renumbered, the numbers beginning at 
 Tottenham Court Road, and ending at the Marble Arch, the 
 even numbers being on the north, and the odd numbers on the 
 south side ; but the numbers of that part of the street which lies 
 to the east of Tottenham Court Road not having been altered, 
 many of the numbers in that part of the street are duplicates of 
 new numbers which are near the Marble Arch : these duplicate 
 numbers are distinguished here by being printed in black type, 
 thus (468). To avoid confusion, care should be taken, in ad- 
 dressing letters, to add the correct postal initials ; and it may be 
 desirable for the duplicated numbers to add either 'near Marble 
 Arch/ or 'near Holborn.' as the case may be, as part of the 
 address.
 
 INTRODUCTION. ix 
 
 I rest this portion of my case here. 
 
 By some strange fatality the most interesting of the old 
 buildings in London have been removed or what is often 
 worse restored, while adjacent old buildings about which 
 no tradition or association lingers are left intact. Drayton's 
 house, in Fleet Street, has been altered and changed beyond 
 recognition, but the two houses next door to it remain as in 
 Drayton's day. The Bell Inn at Edmonton Gilpin's Bell, 
 and a favorite haunt of Charles Lamb during the last years 
 of his life has been taken down, in favor of a dull, common- 
 place public house, about which there is nothing attractive 
 except its name, The Bell ; while on all sides of it there 
 exist, from the days of Lamb and Cowper and long before, 
 and in all their old-fashioned picturesqxie beauty, the con- 
 temporaiy inns which neither of them chanced to make 
 immortal. 
 
 It will be observed that no attempt has been made here 
 to write a text-book or a biographical dictionary. Nothing 
 has been preserved in these pages concerning the members 
 of the guild of literature from Addison to Young excepting 
 what may relate to their career in London ; and the book 
 appeals only to those who love and are familiar with Pepys 
 and Johnson and Thackeray, and who wish to follow them 
 to their homes and their haunts in the metropolis, not to 
 those who need to be told who Pepys and Johnson and 
 Thackeray were, and what they have done. It will be 
 observed, too, that the rank of these men in the world 
 of letters is not to be inferred from the amount of space 
 devoted to them here. Wordsworth and Herrick have as- 
 signed to them but a few lines, simply because they were not 
 poets of brick and mortar, and knew almost nothing of town 
 life ; while whole pages are sometimes bestowed upon the 
 half-forgotten authors of one immortal song, who spent all 
 their days in London, and loved it well. A few writers will
 
 X INTRODUCTION. 
 
 be missed, who, although British, as Burns, Lever, and the 
 Kingsleys, have little or no association with London; 
 while others have not been included, because, like Blake, 
 they may be better known as painters, or, like Garrick, more 
 famous as actors than as men of letters. These will find 
 place, perhaps, in succeeding volumes, to be devoted to the 
 artistic and dramatic memories of the metropolis. Living 
 writers, of course, are not mentioned at all. 
 
 For the convenience of those interested in any particular 
 writer, it has been thought best to arrange the work in the 
 alphabetical sequence of the authors' names, and not topo- 
 graphically or chronologically, as is the ordinary plan ; and 
 to add to the interest, an attempt has been made to let the 
 different subjects of the work speak for themselves, or to let 
 their contemporaries speak for them, wherever it is possible 
 so to do, giving in every instance in the margin the authorities 
 quoted. 
 
 It is hoped that the full indices, local as well as personal, 
 will enable the general reader to find, in any pai-ticular part 
 of the town, what appeals to him most, and show him what 
 is within his reach, no matter where he may be. By means 
 of these, for example, it will be very easy, in walking with 
 Johnson and Boswell from the club in Gerard Street through 
 Long Acre and Bow Street, to Tom Davies's shop in Russell 
 Street, Covent Garden, to call by the way on Dryden, Wycher- 
 ley, Waller, Fielding, Charles Lamb, and Evelyn ; to stop for 
 refreshments at Will's or Button's or Tom's with Steele, 
 Addison, Colley Gibber, Pepys, Davenant, and Pope; and 
 going a step or two further to utter a silent prayer perhaps 
 in the Church of St. Paul, Covent Garden, for the repose of 
 the souls of Butler, Wycherley, Mrs. Centlivre, and 'Peter 
 Pindar/ who sleep within its gates. 
 
 L. H. 
 April 7, 1885.
 
 LITERARY LANDMARKS OF LONDON. 
 
 JOSEPH ADDISON. 
 
 1672-1719. 
 
 A LTHOUGH Addison wrote his name strongly and 
 ** clearly in the literature and politics of England in 
 the eighteenth century, and although he was closely iden- 
 tified with London, the traces he has left of his actual 
 presence in the metropolis are few and slight. 
 
 Concerning his London homes, until his marriage in 
 1716 and settlement in Holland House, his biographers are 
 strangely silent, and but little is to be gathered from the 
 gossip of his contemporaries. It is only known that he lived 
 in the Haymarket, in Kensington Square, in St. James's 
 Place, St. James's Street, at Fulham, and at Chelsea. 
 
 His earliest associations with London were with the 
 Charter House School, to which, after studying under his 
 father's eye at Lichfield and Salisbury, he was sent as a 
 . private pupil. Here he was carefully drilled in the classics, 
 and here too he first made the acquaintance of Steele, with 
 whom in after years he was so intimately connected. The 
 Charter House School stood, through many generations of 
 boys, in Charter House Square, Smithfield. In 1872 those 
 portions of the grounds which belonged to the school itself 
 were transferred to the Merchant Taylors' Company, by 
 whom new school-buildings were erected ; but the Charter 
 
 1
 
 2 JOSEPH ADDISON. [1672-1719. 
 
 House proper remained in 1885, as in Addison's day, with 
 its chapel and cloisters, and its Pensioner's Hall, the home 
 of the Poor Brethren, so familiar to all readers of 'The 
 Newcomes.' 
 
 Addison left the Charter House in 1687 to enter Queen's 
 College, Oxford ; but he returned to London in 1 703, and 
 found lodgings in the Haymarket. 
 
 Pope was one day taking his usual walk with Harte in the 
 
 ^ T ... Haymarket, when he desired him to enter a little shop. 
 
 D'Israehs J 
 
 Literary where, going up three pairs of stairs mto a small 
 
 Characters 
 
 room, Pope said, ' In this garret Addison wrote his 
 " Campaign." ' 
 
 There is, unfortunately, no hint given by Pope, or by any 
 of Addison's biographers, as to the position or number of 
 Addison's Haymarket home. 2 His mode of life at this period, 
 however, is thus described : 
 
 We find it to have been the custom of Addison to be scarcely 
 ever unprovided of some retreat in the immediate neighborhood 
 
 of London, where he might employ his evenings and 
 Ltfe^of Addi- his leisure hours in study and the labor of composition ; 
 son, chap. a satisfactory refutation of the injurious account given 
 
 by Spence, on the authority of Pope, which repre- 
 sents him as habitually passing his evenings, often far into the 
 night, in coffee-houses and taverns with a few convivial and ob- 
 sequious companions. Sandy End, a hamlet of Fulham, was at 
 this tune [1707] his country retirement. He appears to have 
 occupied apartments in a lodging or boarding house established 
 at this place, whence several of the published letters of Steele 
 are dated, written at times when he seems to have been the 
 guest of Addison. 
 
 When the time came to leave, Esmond marched 
 Esmond." 7 S homeward to his lodgings, and met Mr. Addison on the 
 chap ^x road, walking to a cottage which he had at Fulham, 
 
 the moon shining on his handsome serene face. ' What 
 cheer, brother 'I ' says Addison, laughing. ' I thought it was
 
 1672-1719.] JOSEPH ADDISON. 3 
 
 a footpad advancing in the dark, and behold, it is an old friend. 
 We may shake hands, Colonel, in the dark ; 't is better than fight- 
 ing by daylight. Why should we quarrel because I am a Whig 
 and thou art a Tory ? Turn thy steps and walk with rne to Ful- 
 ham, where there is a nightingale still singing in the garden, and 
 a cool bottle in a cave I know of. You shall drink to the Pre- 
 tender, if you like. I will drink my liquor in my own way.' 
 
 Letters of Addisou to the young Earl of Warwick, dated 
 simply at Chelsea, are said to have been written but this 
 is merely traditional iu Sandford Manor House, at one 
 time the residence of Nell Gwynne. This house, standing 
 iu 1885, was a little south of King's Road, towards the 
 Thames. 
 
 That Addison was living in the village of Kensington in 
 1712, when Swift was his neighbor, there seems to be no 
 question, although the site or the character of his house 
 there is not now known. 
 
 The parish books do not give the name of Addison in either 
 row (houses were not numbered in London till 1764), so that it 
 is impossible to identify any particular dwelling now 
 with the house of one of the kindest benefactors that Kensington 
 society ever had. Still, it is pleasing to picture some- 
 where in the old square [Kensington Square] one of whom 
 Thackeray, a hundred and forty years after, thus wrote from the 
 same place : 'When this man looks from the world, whose weak- 
 nesses he describes so benevolently, up to Heaven, which shines 
 on us all, I can hardly fancy a human face lighted up with more 
 serene rapture, or a human intellect thrilling with a purer love 
 and adoration, than that of Joseph Addison.' 
 
 Addison was married, in 1 716, to the dowager Countess 
 of Warwick ; and their courtship Johnson likens to that of 
 Sir Roger de Coverley with his disdainful widow. They 
 do not seem to have been very happy in their union, which 
 began and ended in the famous Holland House, Kensington 
 Road, Kensington, one of the most interesting spots in all
 
 4 JOSEPH ADDISON. [1672-1719. 
 
 England for the sake of its literary associations, and still 
 standing in its noble grounds, in 1885. 
 
 Addison, according to the traditions of Holland House, used, 
 
 when composing, to walk up and down the long gallery 
 
 Moore's Dia- there, with a bottle of wine at each end of it, which 
 
 isis^ 1 23> k e nn i sne d during the operation. There is a little 
 
 white house, too, near the turnpike, to which he used 
 
 to retire when the Countess was particularly troublesome. 
 
 This ' little white house ' was the White Horse Inn, 
 which stood on the corner of what have since been called 
 Holland Lane and Kensington Road. It has disappeared ; 
 but on its site was built, in 1866, a public house called the 
 Holland Arms Inn, where were preserved, in 1885, the fine 
 old mahogany fittings of the original tavern, benches upon 
 which Addison and Steele have often sat, and tables which 
 have held their bottles and their elbows, and heard their 
 familiar talk. 
 
 It seems to have been in Holland House (for he died shortly 
 afterwards) that Addison was visited by Milton's daughter, when 
 
 . he requested her to bring him some evidences of her 
 
 Hunt's Old birth. The moment he beheld her he exclaimed : 
 urb, chap. ' Madam, you need no other voucher ; your face is a 
 sufficient testimonial whose daughter you are.' It 
 must have been very pleasing to Addison to befriend Milton's 
 daughter, for he had been the first to popularize the great poet 
 by his critiques on ' Paradise Lost,' in the ' Spectator.' 
 
 Addison died in Holland House, June 17, 1719. 
 
 The end of this useful life was now approaching. Addison 
 had for some time been oppressed by shortness of breath, which 
 
 was now aggravated by a dropsy, and, finding his dan- 
 Uvesfofthe 8 er pressing, he prepared to die conformably to his 
 Addf'n OWT1 P rece P ts an d professions. . . . Lord Warwick 
 
 [his step-son] was a young man of very irregular life, 
 and perhaps of loose opinions. Addison, for whom he did not
 
 1672-1719.] JOSEPH ADDISON. 5 
 
 want respect, had very diligently endeavored to reclaim him, but 
 his arguments and expostulations had no effect. One experi- 
 ment, however, remained to be tried. When he found his life 
 near its end, he directed the young Lord to be called, and when 
 he desired, with great tenderness, to hear his last injunction, told 
 him : ' I have sent for you that you may see how a Christian 
 can die.' 
 
 This account of Addisou's last hours is not entirely 
 credited by later writers. Hunt, in his ' Old Court Sub- 
 urb ' (chap, xv.), says : 
 
 The story originated with Young, who said he had it from 
 Tickell, adding that the Earl led an irregular life which Addison 
 wished to reclaim. But, according to Malone, who was a scrupu- 
 lous inquirer, there is no evidence of the Earl's having led any 
 such life ; and Wai pole, in one of his letters that were published 
 not long ago, startled we should rather say shocked the 
 world by telling them that Addison died of brandy. It is ac- 
 knowledged by his best friends that the gentle moralist, whose 
 bodily temperament was a sorry one as his mind was otherwise, 
 had gradually been tempted to stimulate it with wine till he 
 became intemperate in the indulgence. It is impossible to say 
 what other stimulants might not gradually have crept in ; nor is 
 it impossible that during the patient's last hours the physician 
 himself might have ordered them. 
 
 It was but fitting that Addison, whose description of 
 Westminster Abbey has been written in letters that cannot 
 fade, should have found a resting-place within its walls, to 
 await there, as he expresses it (' Spectator,' No. 26), ' that 
 great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and 
 make our appearance together.' He was buried in the 
 north aisle of Henry the Seventh's Chapel ; but his grave 
 was unmarked for nearly a century, and the monument to 
 his memory in the Poets' Corner was not erected until 1808. 
 
 Addison's body lay in state in the Jerusalem Chamber, and 
 was borne thence to the Abbey at dead of night. The choir
 
 6 JOSEPH ADDISON. [1672-1719. 
 
 sang a funeral hymn. Bishop Atterbury, one of those Tories who 
 had loved and honored the most accomplished of the 
 
 Essays, Whigs, met the corpse, and led the procession by torch- 
 light round the shrine of St. Edward, and the graves 
 
 of the Plantagenets, to the Chapel of Henry VII. 
 
 Addison, even after his marriage, as has been seen, was 
 not one of the most domestic of men ; and it is easier now 
 to trace him to his clubs and his taverns than to his own 
 firesides. 
 
 Addison's chief companions, before he married Lady Warwick, 
 . were Steele, Davenant etc. He used to breakfast with 
 
 op6nc6 s 
 
 Anecdotes : one or other of them at his lodgings in St. James's 
 Pope sec- 
 tion v., 1737- Place, dine at taverns with them, then to Button's, 
 
 and then to some tavern again for supper in the even- 
 ing ; and this was then the usual round of his life. 
 
 Addison studied all morning, then dined at a tavern, and 
 went afterwards to Button's. Button had been a servant in the 
 
 Countess of Warwick's family, who [sic], under the 
 Lives of the patronage of Addison, kept a coffee-house on the south 
 disair : Ad s ^ e f R usse ll Street, about two doors from Covent 
 
 Garden. Here it was that the wits of that time used 
 to assemble. It is said that when Addison had suffered any 
 vexation from the Countess he withdrew the company from But- 
 ton's house. From this coffee-house he went again to a tavern, 
 where he often sat late and drank too much wine. 
 
 It is reported to have been one of the most exquisite entertain- 
 ments to the choice spirits, in the beginning of this [eighteenth] 
 
 century, to get Addison and Steele together in com- 
 noisseur" pany for the evening. Steele entertained them till 
 
 he was tipsy, when the same wine that stupefied 
 him only served to elevate Addison, who took up the ball just as 
 Steele dropped it. and kept it up for the rest of the evening. 
 
 Addison frequented also the Devil Tavern in Fleet 
 
 Street, opposite St. Dunstan's Church, the famous Devil 
 
 Tavern of Ben Jonson (q. v.). Child's Bank, No. 1 Fleet 
 Street, stands upon its site.
 
 1672-1719. J JOSEPH ADDISON. 7 
 
 I dined to-day [October 12] with Dr. Garth and Mr. Addison 
 
 at the Devil Tavern, near Temple Bar ; and Garth 
 
 * omit s 
 
 treated. And it is well I dine every day, else I should Journal to 
 
 i l ij \r A ]j- i Stella > tflO. 
 
 be longer making out my letters. . . . Mr. Addison s 
 
 election has passed easy and undisputed, and I believe if he had 
 
 a mind to be chosen King he would not be refused. 
 
 Addison himself, in the ' Spectator/ tells of his familiarity 
 with other well-known lounging-places of his day : 
 
 Sometimes I am seen thrusting my head into a round of 
 politicians at Will's, and listening with great attention to the 
 narratives that are made in those little circular audi- spectator, 
 ences. Sometimes I smoke a pipe at Child's, and No - l - 
 while I seem attentive to nothing but the ' Postman,' overhear the 
 conversation of every table in the room. I appear on Sunday 
 nights at the St. James's Coffee House, and sometimes join the 
 committee of politics in the inner room as one who comes there 
 to hear and improve. My face is likewise very well known in 
 the Grecian, the Cocoa Tree, and in the theatres. 
 
 Will's Coffee House, the father of the modern Club, 
 played a very important part in the literature of the seven- 
 teenth and eighteenth centuries. It was on the northwest 
 corner of Russell Street and Bow Street, Covent Garden, and 
 included the two adjoining houses, one in each street. The 
 old house, No. 21 Russell Street, still standing in 1885, is 
 no doubt one of the original buildings. 
 
 Of Child's, in St. Paul's Churchyard, there is no trace left 
 to-day, and even its exact site is unknown. The St. James's 
 Coffee House was ' the last house but one on the southwest 
 corner of St. James's Street, facing Pall Mall,' and was taken 
 down in 1806. The Grecian stood on the site of a portion 
 of Eldon Chambers, Devereux Court, Strand, between Essex 
 Court and New Court in the Temple. It is marked by a 
 tablet, and a bust of Essex, said to be the work of Cams 
 Gabriel Cibber ; and the Grecian Chambers at its back per- 
 petuate its name. The Cocoa Tree Tavern stood at No. 64
 
 8 JOSEPH ADDISON. [1672-1719. 
 
 St. James's Street, Piccadilly, where the Cocoa Tree Club 
 afterwards was built. 
 
 Among his other places of resort were Squire's Coffee 
 House in Fulwood's Rents, No. 34 High Holborn, where 
 were, in 1885, old houses dating back to Addison's time; 
 Serle's Coffee House, on the corner of Serle and Portugal 
 Streets, Lincoln's Inn Fields, the old-fashioned door-posts of 
 which were preserved in the stationer's shop on its site in 
 1885 ; " Dick's," No. 8 Fleet Street, a modernized French 
 restaurant in 1885, the windows of whose square room at 
 the back looked on the trees of Hare Court in the Temple ; 
 and the Bull and Bush, a quaint and picturesque old coun- 
 trified inn, still standing in 1885, at the bottom of North 
 End Road, Hammersmith. 
 
 Addison, after his return from the Continent in 1704, 
 joined the famous Kit Kat Club, which was ' composed of 
 thirty-nine noblemen and gentlemen, zealously attached to 
 the Protestant succession of the House of Hanover.' It 
 met originally in Shire Lane, at the Cat and Fiddle, which 
 is said to have been called subsequently the Trumpet, and 
 as such, is mentioned by Steele in the ' Tatler.' Still later 
 it was known as the Duke of York's. With the street in which 
 it stood, it has long since disappeared. Shire Lane itself, 
 afterwards called Lower Serle's Place, was swept out of ex- 
 istence in 1868, with some thirty other disreputable lanes 
 and alleys, to make way for the new Law Courts in Fleet 
 Street and the Strand. It was on the east side of the pres- 
 ent buildings, and had several outlets into the Strand at or 
 near Temple Bar. Its reputation was always bad, and in 
 the reign of the first James it was known as Rogue's Lane. 
 
 Spence's y ou have heard of t h e Kit Kat Club. . . The 
 
 Anecdotes : 
 
 Pope. master of the house where the club met was Christo- 
 pher Kat. . . . Steele, Addison, Congreve, Garth, Vanbrugh, 
 etc., were of it. ... Jacob [Tonson] had his own and all their
 
 1672-1719.] JOSEPH ADDISON. 9 
 
 pictures by Sir Godfrey Kneller. Each member gave his ; and 
 he is going to build a room for them at Barn-Elms. 
 
 The forty-two pictures presented by the members of this club 
 to Tonson the bookseller were removed by him in the beginning 
 of the last century to Barn-Elms, and placed near his g mjth . s 
 house, in a handsome room lately standing on the Antiquarian 
 
 Rambles in 
 
 grounds of Henry Hoare, Esq. It was lined with red London, 
 cloth, and measured forty feet in length, twenty in 
 width, and eighteen in height. At the death of Mr. Tonson, in 
 1736, they became the property of his great-nephew, who died 
 in 1767. They were then removed to Water Oakley, near Wind- 
 sor, and afterwards to Mr. Baker's, in Hertingfordbury. 
 
 Barn-Elms was at Barnes on the Thames, between Putney 
 and Mortlake. Copies of the Kit Kat portrait of Addison 
 are in the National Portrait Gallery, South Kensington, and 
 in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. The club met later at the 
 King's Arms Tavern, which stood on the north side of Pall 
 Mall, near the Haymarket, and on the site of the Opera 
 Colonnade. It went out of existence as a club early in the 
 eighteenth century. Its place of summer resort was the 
 Upper Flask, a tavern on the edge of Hampstead Heath, 
 which has been for many years a private house. It was on 
 the corner of East Heath Road in 1885 ; its old entrance- 
 hall and low-ceilinged rooms still unchanged, although many 
 additions and alterations had been made. And in its 
 gardens, nearly opposite the Pool, stood, until destroyed in 
 the great storm of Christmas, 1876, the famous mulberry- 
 tree, showing every sign of its gray old age, under which 
 had sat, through so many Arcadian afternoons, Addison, 
 Pope, Steele, Congreve, and their compeers, when, because 
 of their presence, 
 
 ' Hampstead, towering in superior sky, 
 Did with Parnassus in honor vie.'
 
 10 MARK AKENSIDE. [1721-1770. 
 
 MARK AKENSIDE. 
 
 1721-1770. 
 
 A KENSIDE came to London in 1747, when he took 
 fr up his residence for a year or two in the house of 
 his warm friend and patron, Jeremiah Dyson, on the top 
 of Golder's Hill, near North End, Fulham. In 1749 or 
 1750, through Dyson's generosity, he was established as 
 a practising physician in Bloomsbury Square. 
 
 Mr. Dyson parted with his villa at North End, and settled 
 
 his friend FAkensidel in a sensible house in Blooms- 
 Park's 
 
 Hampstead bury Square, assigning him, with unexampled liber- 
 * P-331. 3^ 3QO a year> which enable(1 him to keep a 
 
 chariot and make a proper appearance in the world. 
 
 Although Bucke, in his ' Life of Akenside,' says that the 
 remainder of his life was passed in Bloomsbury Square, 
 he is known to have been living in Craven Street, Strand, 
 in 1759, before houses were numbered; and in 17G2 he 
 took a house in Old Burlington Street, Burlington Gardens, 
 where, in 1770, he died. He was buried in an unmarked 
 grave in St. James's Church, Piccadilly. 
 
 Akenside, in 1759, was appointed physician to St. 
 Thomas's Hospital, then situated in Southwark, on the 
 Borough High Street, between Thomas, Denman, and Joiner 
 Streets. It was removed in 1871. Akenside's favorite re- 
 sorts were Serle's Coffee House, on the corner of Serle and 
 Portugal Streets (see ADDISON, p. 8) ; the Grecian, Devereux 
 Court, Strand (see ADDISON, p. 7) ; and Tom's Coffee House, 
 also in Devereux Court, which no longer exists, but which is
 
 1560-61-1626.] FRANCIS BACON. 11 
 
 not to be confounded with the Tom's of Russell Street, Co- 
 vent Garden. He was also frequently to be found at the 
 sign of The Tully's Head, the book-shop of Robert Dodsley, 
 and a popular meeting-place of men of letters in London for 
 several generations. It stood at the present No. 51 Pall 
 Mall, ' the house with the archway leading into King's 
 Place.' King's Place, running from King Street to Pall 
 Mall, and subsequently called Pall Mall Place for some mys- 
 terious reason, was arched over, in 1885, by an old house; 
 but no book-shop existed there, although there were book- 
 dealers in plenty in its immediate neighborhood. 
 
 FRANCIS BACON. 
 1560-61-1626. 
 
 T3ACON was born at York House, on the Thames, in 
 *"* January, 1560-61, and christened in the old Church 
 of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, standing on the site of the 
 present structure. 
 
 He returned to York House in later years, and lived 
 there for a time as Lord Chancellor of England, when it 
 is recorded that in 1620 he kept his birthday in great 
 splendor and magnificence, Ben Jonson celebrating the occa- 
 sion by a ' short performance in verse.' 
 
 Lord Bacon, being in Yorke House garden looking on fishers 
 throwing their nett, asked them what they would take for their 
 draught. They answered so much. His lordship Anbrey . s 
 
 would offer them no more, but so tmtxh. They drew Lives of 
 
 J Eminent 
 
 up their nett, and in it* were only two or three little Persons: 
 
 fishes. His lordship told them it had been better for 
 
 them to have taken his offer. They replied they hoped to have
 
 12 FRANCIS BACON. [1560-61-1626. 
 
 had a better draught. But said his lordship : Hope is a good 
 breakfast, but an ill supper. 
 
 York House, afterwards the property of the Dukes of 
 Buckingham, when it was still called York House, stood 
 on the site of George Court, and of Villiers, Duke, and 
 Buckingham Streets, Strand ; its later tenants perpetuating 
 their names and their occupancy of the mansion in that 
 way. Nothing is left of it now but the grand old water- 
 gate at the foot of Buckingham Street, the work of Inigo 
 Jones ; although portions of the old house, with the original 
 highly decorated ceilings, were preserved until 1863, when 
 the erection of the Charing Cross Railway Station and 
 Hotel wiped them completely out of existence. 
 
 In 1592 Bacon entertained Queen Elizabeth at Twicken- 
 ham Park, Twickenham, but his house has been taken down. 
 The estate is covered with villas; and no trace of it, as it 
 existed at that time, remains. 
 
 Bacon was married, in 1606, at the Chapel of St. Maryle- 
 bone, described by Hepworth Dixon, in his ' Personal His- 
 tory of Bacon,' as standing then ' two miles from the Strand, 
 among the lanes and suburbs wandering towards the foot 
 of Hampstead Hill.' This church was on the site of the 
 parish church built in 1741 on Marylebone Road, near Mary- 
 lebone High Street. 
 
 Bacon was a member of Gray's Inn, and occupied cham- 
 bers there for many years. 
 
 Lord Bacon, whom we have already mentioned as a member 
 of Gray's Inn, lived at No. 1 Coney Court, which was unfor- 
 Jesse's tunately burnt down in 1678. The site is occupied 
 uT^Gray's 1 ' b y tae present [1868] row of buildings at the west end 
 Inn> of Gray's Inn Square, adjoining the gardens in which 
 
 the great philosopher took such delight. 
 
 He is said to have designed these gardens, and to have 
 planted the old catalpa-tree still standing there in 1885.
 
 1560-61-1626.] FRANCIS BACON. 13 
 
 Bacon is said to have found a temporary retreat at 
 Parson's Green, Fulham; but the character of the Green 
 has greatly changed of late years (see RICHARDSON), and 
 neither the biographers of Bacon nor the local historians 
 give any decided information as to the positive site of his 
 Fulharn home. 
 
 When the great Lord Bacon fell into disgrace, and was for- 
 bidden to appear at Court, he procured a license, dated September 
 13, 1621, to retire for six weeks to the house of his 
 friend, Sir John Vaughan, at Parson's Green, who 
 probably resided in the house now [1816] occupied vo1 - v - 
 by Mr. Maxwell as a boarding-school, a spacious mansion, built 
 in that style of architecture which prevailed at the commence- 
 ment of the reign of James I. 
 
 Bacon died at the house of the Earl of Arundel, at High- 
 gate, April 9, 1626, and was buried in St. Michael's Church, 
 within the precincts of old Verulam. 
 
 The cause of his lordship's death was trying an experiment as 
 he was taking aire in the coach of Dr. Witherborne, a Aubrey's 
 Scotchman, physitian to the King. Towards Highgate Llves - 
 snow lay on the ground, and it came into my lord's thoughts why 
 flesh might not be preserved in snow as in salt. They were re- 
 solved they would try the experiment. Presently they alighted 
 out of the coach, and went into a poore woman's house at the 
 bottom of Highgate Hill, and bought a hen, and made her exen- 
 terate, and then stuffed the bodie with snow, and my lord did 
 help to doe it himself. The snow so chilled him that he immedi- 
 ately fell so ill that he could not return to his lodgings (I suppose 
 then at Gray's Inn), but went to the Earl of Arundel's house at 
 Highgate, where they put him into a good bed, warmed with a 
 panne ; but it was a dampe bed that had not been layn in for 
 about a year before, which gave him such a colde that in two 
 or three days he died of suffocation. 
 
 Arundel House stood on the slope of Highgate Hill. It 
 is known to have been occupied as a school in its later days.
 
 14 JOANNA BAILLIE. [1762-1851. 
 
 and according to Thome, iu his 'Hand-Book of the Envi- 
 rons of London,' it was pulled down in 1825 ; but neither 
 Thome nor any other writers upon the subject have been 
 able to discover its exact position. 
 
 Eiiza No account of the site of Lord Arundel's house at 
 
 Haiiwved' 8 Highgate has heen preserved. To clear up this point, 
 
 Spots of Mr. Montague made many inquiries, though to no pur- 
 Ancient x . . . ' 
 London, pose. We have likewise sought in vain. It is sup- 
 posed, however, to have been the most considerable 
 house in the parish. 
 
 JOANNA BAILLIE. 
 
 1762-1851. 
 
 E Baillies came to London in 1791, when they lived 
 * in Great "Windmill Street, Piccadilly, in the house of 
 their brother, Dr. Matthew Baillie, who took possession 
 of it after the death of their uncle, the famous Dr. Hunter. 
 It was a large, square, double house, on the east side, 
 standing back from the street, and was numbered 16 in 
 1885. 
 
 In 1802 they went to Red Lion Hill, Harnpstead, and 
 on the death of their mother, in 1806, they took Boltou 
 House, at Hampstead, where they spent the remainder of 
 their uneventful lives, and where at the end of half a cen- 
 tury they died. Bolton House, still standing in 1.885, was 
 a quiet, picturesque, old-fashioned mansion, on the top of 
 Windmill Hill, built of red brick and three stories in height. 
 It was the centre house of a row of three companion build- 
 ings, facing the Holly Bush Inn, and at the end of the street 
 called Hollv Hill.
 
 1762-1851.] JOANNA BAILLIE. 15 
 
 Joanna Baillie lived many years at Hampstead, in Bolton 
 House, on Windmill Hill, a little below the Clock House. Per- 
 haps no person of literary distinction ever led a more 
 secluded and unambitious life so near the metropolis. Hewitt's 
 
 In the society of her sister, Miss Agnes Baillie, she jjeMit f 
 
 seemed to care but little whether the world forgot London: 
 , -r, , r ,, . . , , , ,. Hampstead. 
 
 her or not. But of this forgetfulness there was no 
 danger. Every man of pre-eminent genius delighted to do her 
 honor. The last time I saw the poet Rogers he was returning 
 from a call on Joanna Baillie. 
 
 Henry Crabb Robinson thus describes a visit to Joanna 
 Baillie, in May, 1812 :- 
 
 We [Wordsworth and Robinson] met Miss Joanna Baillie and 
 accompanied her home. She is small in figure, and her gait is 
 mean and shuffling, but her manners are those of a well-bred lady. 
 She has none of the unpleasant airs too common to literary 
 ladies. Her conversation is sensible. . . . Wordsworth said of 
 her with warmth : 'If I had to present to a foreigner any one 
 as a model of an English gentlewoman, it would be Joanna 
 Baillie.' 
 
 Joanna Baillie was buried in an altar tomb surrounded by 
 iron railings, in Hampstead Churchyard, on the southeast 
 side of the church, and near the gate and the churchyard 
 wall. "Within the church a mural tablet has been erected 
 to her memory. Agnes Baillie, who survived her sister ten 
 years, liveo} to the great age of an hundred and one. She 
 lies in the same grave.
 
 16 AKXA LETITIA BARBAULD, [1743-1825. 
 
 ANNA LETITIA BAEBAULD. 
 
 1743-1825. 
 
 TN 1785 Mrs. Barbauld was living with her husband at 
 -^ Well Walk, Hampstead ; and there the ' CoiTespondence 
 of Richardson ' was edited and given to the public. Later, 
 she occupied a house on the west side of Rosslyn Hill, Hamp- 
 stead, while Mr. Barbauld, a dissenting minister, preached 
 in the Presbyterian chapel on the High Street there. This 
 chapel was taken down in 1828. His next charge was at 
 Newington Green ; and his chapel on the north side of the 
 Green, built in 1708, enlarged in 1860, was still standing in 
 1885. Mrs. Barbauld died in Church Street, Stoke Newing- 
 ton, in 1825, and was buried near the southern entrance of 
 Stoke Newington Churchyard. 
 
 EICHAED BAXTEE. 
 
 1615-1691. 
 
 *~PHE domestic life of Baxter was very happy, but as un- 
 * settled as the times in which he lived. He was fre- 
 quently in London, and had many temporary homes in and 
 about the city. He was married, September 10, 1662, to 
 Margaret Charlton, ' A Breviate ' of whose life he wrote, 
 in the Church of St. Bennet Fink, Broad Street Ward, 
 near Finch Lane, Cornhill. This church was destroyed in 
 the Great Fire, four years later.
 
 1615-1691.] RICHARD BAXTER. 17 
 
 For some years after the Restoration Baxter lived at Acton, 
 a village on the Uxbridge Road, five miles beyond the Marble 
 Arch, in a house no longer standing, and only described as 
 being ' near the Church.' While here he was arrested and 
 confined for a short time in the King's Bench Prison, then 
 on the east side of the Borough High Street, South wark, 
 immediately adjoining the Marshalsea (see DICKENS). This 
 building was taken down towards the close of the last cen- 
 tury ; and the new prison, built on the Borough Road, cor- 
 ner of Blackmau Street, not very far distant, has itself since 
 disappeared. Of his life here he wrote : 
 
 My imprisonment was no great suffering to me, for I had an 
 honest jailer who showed me all the kindness he could. I had a 
 large room and liberty to walk in a fair garden, and my wife was 
 never so cheerful a companion to me as in prison, and was very 
 much against my seeking to be relieved, and she brought me so 
 many necessaries that we kept house as contentedly and comfort- 
 ably as at home, though in a narrower room ; and I had a sight of 
 more friends in a day than I had at home in half a year. 
 
 His wife died in his ' most pleasant and convenient 
 house ' in Southampton Square, now Bloornsbury Square, 
 in 1681. 
 
 He preached and lectured frequently in London : in the 
 old church of St. Dunstan-in-theAYest, Fleet Street, just 
 inside Temple Bar ; in St. Mary Magdalen's, Milk Street, 
 Cheapside, destroyed in the Great Fire, and never rebuilt ; 
 in Park Street, Southwark, ' not far from the Brewery ' (of 
 Barclay and Perkins); in Swallow Street, Piccadilly; in 
 Pinner's Hall, and in St. James's Market Place. 
 
 After the indulgence in 1672, he returned into the city, and 
 was one of the Tuesday lecturers in Pinner's Hall, and 
 had a Friday lecture in Fetter Lane [near Neville Britannica: 
 Court]; but on the Lord's days he for some time Baxter 
 preached only occasionally, and afterwards more statedly, in St. 
 
 2
 
 18 RICHARD BAXTER. [1615-1691. 
 
 James's Market Place, where, in 1671, he had a wonderful deliv- 
 ery, by almost a miracle, from a crack in the floor. 
 
 Swallow Street ran from Piccadilly in a direct line to 
 Oxford Street, a few yards west of what has since been called 
 Oxford Circus. Its site is the present Regent Street, built 
 in 1813 to connect Carltoii House with Regent's Park. 
 Strype described it as ' being very long . . . but of no 
 great account for buildings or inhabitants.' Swallow Street, 
 Piccadilly, and Swallow Place, Oxford Street, perpetuated its 
 name as late as 1885. Of course no traces of Baxter's 
 chapels remain, either here or in the neighborhood of Park 
 Street, the enormous works of the great brewing firm having 
 replaced whole blocks of houses in Southwark (see SHAK- 
 SPERE). 
 
 Pinner's Hall stood behind Pinner's Court, No. 54| Old 
 Broad Street. The modern Pinner's Hall, on the corner of 
 Old Broad and Great Winchester Streets, and built partly 
 on its site, was, in 1885, entirely devoted to business 
 purposes. 
 
 St. James's Market, very much curtailed, stood, in 1885, 
 in the block of buildings between Jermyn Street, Charles 
 Street, the present Regent Street, and the Haymarket. 
 
 Another of his chapels was in Oxendon Street, on the west 
 side, near Coventry Street. It backed upon the gardens 
 of Mr. Secretary Coventry, who was not in sympathy with 
 Baxter, or his form of worship, and who drove the congrega- 
 tion to other quarters by the disturbances he caused to be 
 made under the chapel windows. This building stood until 
 within a few years, and was latterly the home of a Scottish 
 congregation. 
 
 Baxter spent the last years of his life in Charter House 
 Lane, where he died December 8, 1691. He was buried, 
 a few days later, in Christ Church, Newgate Street, by the 
 side of his wife, 'next to the old altar, or table, in the
 
 1585-1615-16.] FRANCIS BEAUMONT. 19 
 
 chancel.' On his tomb was inscribed ' The Saint's Rest,' 
 but no trace of it is now to be found. 
 
 Among the many houses demolished in 1864, for the purposes 
 of the Metropolitan Meat Market and Metropolitan Railway 
 Extensions, was that in which once resided, and where 
 died, this eminent Non-conformist minister [Baxter], History of 
 in 1691. The dwelling stood for many years ; and 
 although it was frequently repaired, the larger portion 
 of it remained until 1864, on the eastern side of Charter House 
 Lane, near to the Charter House. 
 
 Charter House Lane was the eastern end of the present 
 Charter House Street, running from St. John Street to the 
 Square. 
 
 FKANCIS BEAUMONT. 
 
 1585-1615-16. 
 
 TI) EAUMONT was entered a member of the Inner Temple 
 *-^ November 3, 1600; but of his life in London little is 
 known, and that only during his association with Fletcher 
 (see FLETCHER). Aubrey says : 
 
 There was a wonderful consimilarity of phansy between him 
 and Mr. Jo. Fletcher, which caused that dearnesse of friendship 
 between them. I thinke they were both of Queene's Coll, in 
 Cambridge. I have heard Dr. Jo. Earle say, who knew them, 
 that his maine business was to correct the overflowing of Mr. 
 Fletcher's witt. They lived together on the Bankside, not 
 far from the Play House. . . . [They had] the same cloaths 
 and cloaks &tc. between them. 
 
 The Play House was the Globe Theatre, the site of which 
 is now covered by the Brewery of Barclay and Perkins,
 
 20 ROBERT BLOOMFIELD. [1766-1823. 
 
 near South wark Bridge Eoad (see SHAKSPERE). There re- 
 mained in 1885 a number of quaint, plastered, two-storied 
 houses on the Baukside, which were old enough to have 
 harbored these twin spirits. 
 
 Tradition says that Beaumont and Fletcher were fre- 
 quenters of the Mermaid Tavern in Cheapside, where Jon- 
 son and Shakspere were their companions (see JONSON). 
 Beaumont was buried, according to the Register of West- 
 minster Abbey, ' at the entrance of St. Benedict's Chapel, 
 March 9, 1615-16.' He lies near Chaucer, in an unmarked 
 grave. 
 
 EGBERT BLOOMFIELD. 
 
 1766-1823. 
 
 T3 OBERT BLOOMFIELD, the son of a tailor, came to 
 ^ London in 1781 to learn the shoemaker's trade. He 
 lodged first, in a very humble way, at No. 7 Pitcher's 
 Court, Great Bell Alley, Coleman Street, City ; and later 
 in Blue Hart Court, in the same alley. The character 
 of the alley and its courts has entirely changed during 
 the century that has passed, and no traces of any of his 
 homes here are left. 
 
 After his marriage, in 1790, and while working at his 
 cobbler's bench in Great Bell Yard, he wrote 'The Farm- 
 er's Boy.' 
 
 Cunning- I saw ^ n ^ r - Upcott's hand the poet's shop card, 
 
 ham's Hand- neatly engraved and inscribed ' Bloorafield, Ladies' 
 London : Shoe Maker, No. 14 Great Bell Yard, Coleman Street, 
 street. The best real Spanish Leather at reasonable prices.' 
 
 Great Bell Yard was opposite Great Bell Alley ; but its 
 name has been changed to Telegraph Street, and it has been
 
 1740-1795.] JAMES BOSWELL. 21 
 
 entirely rebuilt. No. 14 Telegraph Street was in 1885 a 
 very new and glaring white glazed tile structure, let out as 
 offices, and called ' The White House.' 
 
 JAMES BOSWELL. 
 
 1740-1795. 
 
 /~\F Boswell's life in London, so closely identified with 
 ^-f that of the subject of his famous biography, but little 
 is to be said, except in connection with Dr. Johnson (q. v.). 
 
 He came to the metropolis in 1760, and first met 
 Johnson, in May, 1763, at the shop of Tom Davies, No. 8 
 Russell Street, Covent Garden (see JOHNSON). In July 
 of the same year he removed from Downing Street to 
 ' the bottom of Inner Temple Lane,' where Johnson was liv- 
 ing, in order to be nearer to the object of his devotion. His 
 chambers were in Farrar's Building, now rebuilt ; Johnson's, 
 at No. 1 Inner Temple Lane, opposite, are also rebuilt. 
 
 In 1768 Boswell was in Half Moon Street, Piccadilly; in 
 1769, in Old Bond Street, where on the 16th of October he 
 entertained Johnson, Reynolds, Garrick, and Goldsmith ; and 
 in 1772 he was lodging in Conduit Street. 
 
 He died at No. 47 Great Portland Street, Oxford Street, 
 in 1795. This street has been extended, renumbered and 
 rebuilt. Boswell's house was on the east side, the seventh 
 from the corner of Marylebone Street, towards Langham 
 Street, then Queen Anne Street. 
 
 He was buried at his family seat in Scotland. 
 
 Johnson succeeded in electing Boswell a member of The 
 Club (see GOLDSMITH and JOHNSON).
 
 22 CHARLOTTE BRONTE. [1816-1855. 
 
 Life and I was vvell pleased to meet The Club for the first 
 
 Letters of , . . 
 
 Lord time. ... I was amused, in turning over the rec- 
 
 ords of The Club, to come upon poor Bozzy's signa- 
 chap. viii. ture, evidently affixed when he was too drunk to 
 guide his pen. 
 
 CHARLOTTE BRONTE. 
 
 1816-1855. 
 
 TT 7 HEN Charlotte and Anne Bronte came to London 
 * * in 1848, without male escort, they stopped at the 
 Chapter Coffee House, No. 50 Paternoster Row, the tavern 
 frequented by their father, the only one of which they had 
 any knowledge in the metropolis, and to which, as guests 
 perhaps, no other women ever went. From here they 
 sallied out to see their publisher, and astonish him with 
 their identity as the authors of ' Jane Eyre ' and ' The 
 Tenant of Wildfell Hall.' Although Charlotte afterwards 
 made short visits to London, and was entertained by Rogers 
 and other noted men, she gives no hint in her letters as to 
 where she lodged in later years. The Chapter Coffee House 
 was in existence in 1885, as a place of refreshment, and 
 but little changed (see CHATTERTON). S 
 
 Half-way up, on the left-hand side [of Paternoster Row], is 
 the Chapter Coffee House. I visited it last June [1856]. It was 
 Mrs then unoccupied. It had the appearance of a dwelling- 
 
 Gaskell's house two hundred years old or so, such as one some- 
 Life of J 
 Charlotte tunes sees in ancient country towns ; the ceilings of 
 
 volAi. ' the small rooms were low, and had heavy beams run- 
 chap, fa. rung across them ; the walls were wainscoted, breast- 
 high ; the stairs were shallow, broad, and dark, taking up much 
 space in the centre of the house. The gray-haired elderly
 
 1803-1873.] BULWER LYTTON. 23 
 
 man who officiated as waiter seems to have been touched from 
 the very first by the quiet simplicity of the two ladies, and he 
 tried to make them feel comfortable and at home in the long, low, 
 dingy room upstairs. The high narrow windows looked into the 
 gloomy Row ; the sisters, clinging together in the most remote 
 window-seat (as Mr. Smith tells me he found them when he 
 came that Saturday evening-to take them to the Opera), could see 
 nothing of motion or of change in the grim, dark houses opposite, 
 so near and close, although the whole breadth of the Row was 
 between. 
 
 BULWEK LYTTON 
 
 1803-1873. 
 T3ULWER was born at No. 31 Baker Street, a three- 
 
 r~x 
 
 *~r storied plain brick house, standing in 1885, on the 
 east side and next to the corner of Dorset Street ; but 
 in his youth his mother lived in Montague Square, in Not- 
 tingham Place, Marylebone, and at No. 5 Upper Seymour 
 (now Seymour) Street, Portman Square, corner of Berkeley 
 Mews, and numbered 10 in 1885. His first school was at 
 Fulham, where he remained only a fortnight ; his second at 
 Sunbury, in Middlesex, fifteen miles from London, where, as 
 he says in his Autobiography, he ' wasted two years.' 
 
 In 1829 he purchased and furnished the house No. 36 
 Hertford Street, Park Lane, to which he took his wife and 
 infant daughter. It was unchanged in 1885. In 1837 a 
 letter of Bulwer's was dated from ' The Albany ' (see 
 BYRON, p. 32). 
 
 In the year 1839 James Smith, in a letter, relates : ' I dined 
 yesterday with E. L. Bulwer at his new residence in Charles 
 Street, Berkeley Square, a splendidly and classically fitted up
 
 24 BULWER LYTTON. [1803-1873. 
 
 mansion. One of the drawing-rooms is afac-simile of a chamber 
 which our host visited at Pompeii. Vases, candelabra, chairs, 
 tables to correspond. He lighted a perfumed pastille modelled 
 from Vesuvius. As soon as the cone of the mountain 
 wits and began to blaze I found myself an inhabitant of the 
 TOi n ir : iSt8 ' devoted city. . . .' There must be some mistake in 
 James t,hi s record ; the house in Charles Street on the north 
 
 Smith. 
 
 side is certainly not a mansion, but a dwelling of 
 moderate size, and the Running Footman public house. 
 
 At the time of the publication of 'Zanoni,' in 1841, Bul- 
 wer was living at No. 1 Park Lane, in a house since rebuilt. 
 
 Dr. Charles J. B. Williams, in his ' Recollections,' pub- 
 lished in 1884, thus speaks of Bulwer, who was one of his 
 patients : 
 
 When I visited him at his residence in Park Lane, even on 
 entrance at the outer door, I began to find myself in an atmos- 
 phere of perfume, or rather of perfume mixed with tobacco fume. 
 On proceeding further through a long corridor and anteroom the 
 fume waxed stronger, and on entrance to the presence chamber, 
 on a divan at the further end, through a haze of smoke loomed his 
 lordship's figure, wrapt in an Oriental dressing-robe, with a 
 colored fez, and half reclined upon the ottoman. 
 
 In 1843 Bulwer occupied Craven Cottage at Fulham, 
 on the banks of the Thames, just beyond the Bishop of 
 London's Meadows. It stood in 1885, a complete but 
 picturesque ruin, and must have been, in its day, a very 
 remarkable specimen of fantastic architecture, embracing 
 the Persian, Gothic, Moorish, and Egyptian styles. In the 
 library Bulwer is said to have written more than one of his 
 novels. He lived later in life at No. 12 Grosvenor Square, 
 on the north side. He died at Torquay, and was buried 
 from his own house, Grosvenor Square, in Westminster 
 Abbey. 
 
 His favorite club was the Athenaeum, on the southwest 
 corner of Pall Mall and Waterloo Place.
 
 1628-1688.] JOHN BUNYAtf. 25 
 
 JOHN BUNYAN. 
 
 1628-1688. 
 
 JOHN BUNYAN during his lifetime bad few associations 
 with London, although his bones lie not very far from 
 those of the author of ' Robinson Crusoe ' in the Cemetery 
 of Bunhill Fields. He made occasional professional visits 
 to town, however, when he usually preached in the meeting- 
 house in Zoar Street, Southwark, ' near the sign of the 
 Faulcon' (see SHAKSPERE). This Zoar Chapel was about 
 one hundred feet from Gravel Lane, on the left hand 
 of the street going towards that lane. It was used as a 
 wheelwright's shop after Bunyan's time ; and when it was 
 destroyed, its pulpit was carried to the Methodist Chapel in 
 Palace Yard, Lambeth. Bunyan gathered together congre- 
 gations of three thousand persons on Sundays, and twelve 
 or fifteen hundred on week days. 
 
 There is a tradition that he had lodgings at one time 
 on London Bridge, but there seems to be but little foun- 
 dation for the story. While he was on one of these visits 
 to town, in 1688, he died at the house of his friend 
 Mr. Strudwick, a grocer, 'at the Sign of the Star on 
 Snow Hill.' Robert Philips, in his 'Life of Bunyan' 
 (chap, xlv.), quotes, from a manuscript in the Library of 
 the British Museum, the following account of his death : 
 
 Taking a tedious journey in a slabby, rainy day, and return- 
 ing late to London, he was entertained by one Mr. Strudwick, a 
 grocer on Snow Hill, with all the kind endearments of a loving 
 friend, but soon found himself indisposed with a kind of shaking, 
 as it were an ague, which increasing to a kind of fever, he took
 
 26 JOHN BUNYAN. [1628-1688. 
 
 to his bed, where, growing worse, he found that he had not long 
 to last in this world, and therefore prepared himself for another, 
 towards which he had been journeying as a PILGRIM and Stranger 
 upon earth the prime of his days. 
 
 Snow Hill, in the seventeenth century, is described as 
 having been a circuitous highway, between Holborn Bridge 
 and Xewgate, very narrow, very steep, and very dangerous. 
 Pink, in his ' History of Clerkeuwell/ believes that the house 
 in which Bunyan died must have been removed when Skin- 
 ner Street was formed, in 1802, if it existed so long as that. 
 Skinner Street ran by the south side of St. Sepulchre's 
 Church, but was itself wiped out of existence when the Hol- 
 born Viaduct was built. It would appear, therefore, that 
 the Sign of the Star was directly under the eastern pier of 
 the Viaduct. 
 
 An altar tomb with his recumbent figure upon it, on the 
 southern side of Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, City Eoad, 
 has been erected to Bunyan's memory, although there seems 
 to be some doubt as to where he was actually buried there. 
 
 He was interred at first in the back part of that ground 
 known as 'Baptists' Corner.' The tradition (and I think the 
 Philips' Life Probability) is, that his friend Mr. Strudwick 'had 
 of Bunyan, given commandment concerning his bones' that thev 
 
 chap. xlvi. iii, ~ , 
 
 should be transferred to the present vault whenever 
 an interment took place. ... It does not say, however, that 
 Bunyan is underneath ; and I know persons of respectability 
 who affirm that he is not there. One gentleman assures me 
 that the coffin was shown to him in another vault in quite 
 another quarter of the ground. ... On the other hand, the 
 nephew of the late chaplain of Bunhill Fields informs me that 
 his uncle invited him to see Bunyan's coffin in Strudwick's vault ; 
 and the son of the late Manager of the Graves always understood 
 his father to mean, when he said ' that Bunyan was not buried 
 there,' that it was not his original grave.
 
 1730-1797.1 EDMUND BURKE. 27 
 
 EDMUND BURKE. 
 
 1730-1797. 
 
 T3UEKE arrived in London in 1750, and kept terms 
 regularly in the Middle Temple. Of the details of his 
 early life and struggles he rarely spoke ; and almost nothing 
 is known, except that he lived at ' The Pope's Head, over 
 the shop of Jacob Eobinson, bookseller and publisher, just 
 within the Inner Temple Gateway,' and that shortly after 
 his marriage, in 1756, he lived in Wimpole Street, Oxford 
 Street. 
 
 The shop of Jacob Eobinson has now disappeared, al- 
 though just within the adjoining Middle Temple Gateway 
 was, in 1885, a curious old house, occupied by a firm of 
 law stationers, who were doing a business which their sign 
 declared to have been ' established two hundred years.' 
 Robinson's shop was on the west side of the Gateway, next 
 the Rainbow Tavern, and was numbered afterwards 16 Fleet 
 Street. 
 
 In 1764 Burke was living in Queen Anne Street, Oxford 
 Street, and watching the debates in the House of Com- 
 mons from the Strangers' Gallery. 
 
 In 1780 he occupied a house in Westminster, one side of 
 which, according to Walcott in his ' Memorials of West- 
 minster,' contained ' an arch of the eastern wall of the Old 
 Gate leading into Dean's Yard.' This was a portion of the 
 famous Gate House in which were confined so many illus- 
 trious state prisoners. It stood at the end of Tothill Street, 
 covering considerable space on each side of that thorough- 
 fare, and extending from Dean's Yard to the site of the
 
 28 SAMUEL BUTLER. [1612-1680. 
 
 Westminster Hospital. Burke's house here was taken down 
 some years ago. 
 
 In 1781 Burke had removed to the more fashionable 
 neighborhood of St. James's Square. 
 
 From St. James's Square we pass eastward into Charles Street, 
 Jesse's Lon- interesting from its having been for a time the resi- 
 
 sTirawV dence of Burke - lt was here !> 1781 ] that Crabbe 
 Square. addressed to him that touching letter, and was admitted 
 to that affectionate interview which happily so revolutionized the 
 poet's fortunes. 
 
 In 1787 Burke lived at No. 37 Gerard Street, Soho, in a 
 house marked by the tablet of the Society of Arts. In 1793 
 he lodged at No. 6, and in 1794 at No. 25, Duke Street, St. 
 James's, in houses greatly changed since his day. 
 
 He died at Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire. 
 
 Burke's earliest nights of oratory were made in a debating- 
 club held in the Robin Hood Tavern, Essex Street, Strand, 
 of which no trace is now left. He was in after years a mem- 
 ber of Brooks's Club, No. 60 St. James's Street, and an 
 original member of The Club (see JOHNSON). He was also 
 frequently to be found at The Tully's Head, Dodsley's Shop, 
 No. 51 Pall Mall (see AKENSIDE). 
 
 SAMUEL BUTLER. 
 
 1612-1680. 
 
 "D UTLER'S life in London was neither happy nor prosper- 
 "-^ ous, and but few records are left of his existence here. 
 He is believed to have had chambers at one time in Gray's 
 Inn, although he was not a member of that Society. His 
 later years were passed in poverty, and he died in Rose
 
 1612-1680.] SAMUEL BUTLER. 29 
 
 Street, Co-vent Garden, which runs from No. 2 Garrick Street 
 to No. 11 Long Acre (see DRYDEN), and was pronounced by 
 Aubrey ' one of the meanest streets in that part of the city.' 
 Butler was buried in the yard of St. Paul's Church, Covent 
 Garden ; but contemporary authorities differ as to the exact 
 position of his grave. 
 
 Butler was of a middle stature, strong sett, high coloured, with 
 a heade of sorrell hair, a good fellowe and latterly much troubled 
 with the gowt. ... He dyed of a consumption Sep- Au ^ rey . s 
 
 tember 25 (Anno D^ 1680 circiter) and was buried Lives: 
 
 Butler. 
 27, according to his owne appointment in the church 
 
 yard of Covent Garden in the north part, next the church, at 
 the east end. His feet touch the wall. His grave two yards dis- 
 tant from the pUlaster of the dore (by his desire) 6 foot deepe. 
 About 25 of his old acquaintances at his funerall, I, myself, 
 being one. 
 
 This Samuel Butler, who was a boon and witty companion, 
 especially among the company he knew well, died of a consump- 
 tion, September 25th, 1(580, and was, according to his An tj, ony 
 desire, buried six feet deep in the yard belonging to Wood's 
 the Church of St. Paul in Covent Garden, within the onienses, 
 liberty of Westminster, viz. at the west end of the said vo "' 
 yard, on the north side and under the wall of the church, and 
 under that wall which parts the yard from the common highway. 
 
 A tablet to the memory of Butler was placed on the south 
 side of the chiirch ' by the inhabitants of the parish ' in 
 1786, nine years before the old edifice was destroyed by 
 fire. It was not renewed when the church was rebuilt ; 
 and the clerk of the vestry in 1885 had no knowledge of it, 
 or of the position of Butler's grave. The churchyard has 
 been levelled and covered with grass, where it is not paved 
 with fragments of the old tombstones it used to contain, 
 and few memorials to its illustrious dead are now to be 
 found.
 
 30 LORD BYKON. [1788-1824. 
 
 LOED BYRON. 
 
 1788-1824. 
 
 "DYRON was born at No. 16 4 Holies Street, Cavendish 
 * f Square, in a house since numbered 24, and marked 
 by the tablet of the Society of Arts. It is probably un- 
 changed. He was christened in St. Marylebone Church, on 
 the Marylebone Road near the High Street, when he was 
 about six weeks old ; but Mrs. Byron took her son to Scot- 
 land in his infancy, and he did not again see London until 
 1799, when he was brought to a house in Sloane Terrace, 
 Sloane Street, while an eminent surgeon was preparing 
 an instrument for the support of his ankle. He was then 
 sent to a school which stood near the Saline Spring, on 
 Wells Lane, Sydenham, but has now disappeared. 
 
 Moore, in his ' Life of Byron,' makes few allusions to his 
 subject's different homes in London and elsewhere, or to 
 his home life ; and it is only by the occasional headings 
 of his letters, and by their indirect personal allusions, that 
 he can be traced to his various lodgings in town. In 
 August, 1806, he wrote to a college friend from No. 16 Pic- 
 cadilly ; but he does not appear to have remained then long 
 in London. No. 16 Piccadilly was on the site of Piccadilly 
 Circus, and the house disappeared when Regent Street was 
 formed, a few years later. 
 
 In the winter of the same year Byron was for a short 
 time at Dorant's Hotel, which stood in Jermyn Street, 
 nearly opposite Bury Street. Cox's Hotel, No. 56 Jermyn 
 Street, was its direct successor in 1 885 ; and here it was 
 that he read the criticism of the ' Edinburgh Review ' upon
 
 1788-1824.] LORD BYRON. 31 
 
 his ' Hours of Idleness,' which had such an effect upon him 
 that the friend who found him in the first moments of 
 excitement, fancied he had received a challenge to fight a 
 duel, not being able in any other way to account for the 
 hatred and defiance expressed in his face. 
 
 Byron occupied lodgings at No. 8 St. James's Street at 
 various times, from early in the year 1808 to 1814. Here 
 he published his 'Satire' in 1809, and from here, on the 
 30th March in the same year, he drove to take his seat for 
 the first time in the House of Lords. Mr. Dallas writes : 
 
 On that day, passing down St. James's Street, but with no 
 intention of calling, I saw his chariot at his door, and went in. 
 
 His countenance, paler than usual, showed that his 
 
 ' r Moore's Life 
 
 mind was agitated. ... He said to me, ' I am glad of Byron, 
 
 you happened to come in ; I am going to take my seat, 1>f 
 perhaps you will go with me.' I expressed my readiness to attend 
 him ; while at the same time I concealed the shock I felt on 
 thinking that this young man, who by birth, fortune, and talents, 
 stood high in life, should have lived so unconnected and neglected 
 by persons of his own rank, that there was not a single member 
 of the Senate to which he belonged, to whom he could or would 
 apply to introduce him in a manner becoming his birth. I saw 
 that he felt the situation, and I fully partook of his indignation. 
 
 While living in this house, No. 8 St. James's Street, in 
 1812, and shortly after the publication of ' Childe Harold,' 
 he woke up on that historic morning to find himself famous. 
 The house, still standing in 1885, had been altered, and a 
 story added ; but the adjoining house, No. 7, showed how 
 it appeared in Byron's time. 
 
 A number of letters of his are addressed from No. 4 
 Bennet Street, St. James's Street, which he sometimes called 
 ' Benedictfne Street,' a house that was still used as a lodging- 
 house half a century later. During these seven or eight 
 years before his marriage he occasionally lived at Stevens's 
 (afterwards Fischer's) Hotel, No. 18 New Bond Street,
 
 32 LORD BYRON. [1788-1824. 
 
 with an entrance on Clifford Street, opposite Long's ; and at 
 Gordon's Hotel, No. 1 Albemarle Street, corner of Piccadilly. 
 According to Mr. Jesse, the greater part of ' The Corsair ' 
 was composed by Byron while he was walking up and down 
 Albemarle Street, between Grafton Street and Piccadilly. 
 
 On the 9th of April, 1814, Byron wrote to Moore from 
 A, No. 2, The Albany : 
 
 Viscount Althorp is about to be married, and I have gotten his 
 spacious bachelor apartments in the Albany, to which I hope you 
 will address a speedy answer to this mine epistle. 
 
 The Albany is a long row of semi-detached buildings, 
 extending from Piccadilly through to Burlington Gardens, 
 just east of the Royal Academy of Arts. It is let out in 
 chambers to single gentlemen, and has had many distin- 
 guished occupants. Here Byron wrote the ' Ode on the 
 Fall of Napoleon,' and herefrom he set out to be married 
 to Miss Milbanke, on January 2, 1815. 
 
 Lord and Lady Byron, in the spring of 1815, took pos- 
 session of the mansion No. 13 Piccadilly Terrace, where in 
 December of the same year the sole daughter of his house 
 and heart was born; and this house, in January, 1816, 
 Lady Byron quitted, never to see her lord again. It was 
 still standing in 1885, near Park Lane, and numbered 139 
 Piccadilly. 
 
 Moore first met Byron at Samuel Rogers's, No. 22 St. 
 James's Place, Piccadilly, in 1811 (see ROGERS). 
 
 It was at first intended by Mr. Rogers that his company at 
 dinner should not extend beyond Lord Byron and myself ; but 
 
 Mr. Thomas Campbell, having called upon our host 
 
 Moore's . , * . . J* . 
 
 Byron, vol. that morning, was invited to join the party, and 
 -, isii. consented. Such a meeting could not be otherwise 
 than interesting to us all. It was the first time that Lord Byron 
 was ever seen by any of his three companions ; while he, on his 
 side, for the first time found himself in the society of person 6
 
 1788-1824.] LORD BYRON. 33 
 
 whose names had been associated with his first literary dreams, 
 and to two of whom he looked up with that tributary admiration 
 which youthful genius is ever ready to pay its precursors. Among 
 the impressions which this meeting left upon me, what I chiefly 
 remember to have remarked, was the nobleness of his air, his 
 beauty, the gentleness of his voice and manners, and what was 
 naturally not the least attraction his marked kindness to 
 myself. Being in mourning for his mother, the color as well 
 of his dress as of his glossy, curling, and picturesque hair gave 
 more effect to the pure, spiritual paleness of his features, in the 
 expression of which, when he spoke, there was a perpetual play 
 of lively thought, though melancholy was their habitual character 
 when in repose. As we had none of us been apprised of his 
 peculiarities with respect to food, the embarrassment of our host 
 was not a little on discovering that there was nothing upon the 
 table which his noble guest could eat or drink. Neither meat, 
 fish, nor wine would Lord Byron touch, and of biscuits and soda- 
 water, which he asked for, there had been unluckily no provision. 
 He professed, however, to be equally well pleased with potatoes 
 and vinegar, and of these meagre materials contrived to make 
 rather a hearty dinner. 
 
 Some days after, meeting Hobhouse, I said to him, ' How long 
 will Lord Byron persevere in his present diet?' He replied, 
 ' Just as long as you continue to notice it.' I did not R <*ers's 
 then know what I now know to be a fact, that Byron, Table Talk - 
 after leaving my house, had gone to a club in St. James's Street, 
 and eaten a hearty meat supper. 
 
 Byron's meeting with Sir Walter Scott, the latter thus de- 
 scribes in a letter to -Moore, written after Byron's death : 
 
 It was in the spring of 1815 that, chancing to be in London, 
 I had the advantage of a personal introduction to Lord Byron. 
 Eeport had prepared me to meet a man of peculiar 
 
 , T . . , , , Lockhart's 
 
 habits and a quick temper; and I had some doubts LifeofScott, 
 whether we were likely to suit each other in society. ^tv. chap ' 
 I was most agreeably disappointed in this respect. I 
 found Lord Byron in the highest degree courteous and even kind. 
 We met for an hour or two almost daily in Mr. Murray's drawing- 
 room [No. 50 A, Albemarle Street], and found a great deal to say 
 
 3
 
 34 LORD BYRON. [1788-1824. 
 
 to each other. ... I saw Lord Byron for the last time in 1815, 
 after I returned from France. He dined, or lunched, with me at 
 Long's, in Bond Street. I never saw him so full of gayety or good- 
 humor, to which the presence of Mr. Mathews, the comedian, added 
 not a little. After one of the gayest parties I ever was present at, 
 I set off for Scotland, and I never saw Lord Byron again. 
 
 Long's Hotel still stood, in 1885, at No. 16 New Bond 
 Street, 6 and Murray's Publishing House was still in Alberuarle 
 Street, near Piccadilly, on the same spot as in the days of 
 Scott and Byron. 
 
 Lord Byron died in Missolonghi, Greece, on the 19th of 
 April, 1824. His remains were carried to England, lay in 
 state in the house of Sir Edward Knatchbull, No. 25 Great 
 George Street, Westminster (the Institution of Civil Engi- 
 neers in 1885), on the 9th and 10th of July, and on the 
 16th of July were buried by the side of those of his mother 
 in the family vault near Newstead Abbey. 
 
 Was with Rogers at half past eight ; set off for George Street, 
 Westminster, at half past nine. When I approached the house 
 Moore's and saw tlie crow< l assembled, felt a nervous trembling 
 Diary, July come over me which lasted till the whole ceremony 
 was over. . . . The riotous curiosity of the mob, the 
 bustle of the undertakers, etc., and all the other vulgar accompani- 
 ment of the ceremony mixing with my recollections of him who 
 was gone, produced a combination of disgust and sadness that was 
 deeply painful to me. ... Saw a lady crying in a barouche as 
 we turned out of George Street, and said to myself, ' Bless her 
 heart, whoever she is ! ' There were, however, few respectable 
 persons in the crowd, and the whole ceremony was anything but 
 what it ought to have been. Left the hearse as soon as it was off 
 the stones, and returned home to get rid of my black clothes and 
 try to forget as much as possible the wretched feeh'ngs I had 
 experienced in them. 
 
 Byron's clubs were Watier's, a gambling-house, No. 81 
 Piccadilly, corner of Bolton Street, and the Alfred, No.
 
 1777-1844.] THOMAS CAMPBELL. 35 
 
 23 Albemarle Street, neither of which is now in existence. 
 He was also a member of the Cocoa Tree Club, which still 
 had the house No. 64 St. James's Street in 1885. 
 On the 9th of April, 1814, he wrote to Moore : 
 
 I have also been chinking, and on one occasion, with three 
 other friends of the Cocoa Tree, from six till four, yea, five in the 
 matin. We clareted and champagned till two, then supped, and 
 finished with a kind of Regency punch, composed of Madeira, 
 brandy, and green tea, no real water being admitted therein. 
 There was a night for you ! without once quitting the table, ex- 
 cepting to ambulate home, which I did alone, and in utter con- 
 tempt of a hackney coach, and my own vis, both of which were 
 deemed necessary for our conveyance. 
 
 THOMAS CAMPBELL. 
 
 1777-1844. 
 
 /CAMPBELL saw almost nothing of London until his 
 ^^ marriage, which took place in the Church of St. Mar- 
 garet, Westminster, in 1803. He shortly afterwards hired a 
 house at Sydenham, where he lived for seventeen years, and 
 where the whole of ' Gertrude of Wyoming ' was written. 
 
 In November. 1804, Campbell wrote from Sydenham to 
 Constable : 
 
 If you come to London and drink to the health of Auld 
 Reekie over my new mahogany table, if you take a walk round 
 
 my garden, and see my braw house, my court-yard, 
 
 , , , , ,1 i i . Constable 
 
 hens, geese and turkeys, or view the lovely country m an d his Lit- 
 
 my neighborhood, you will think this fixture and 
 furniture money well bestowed. I shall indeed be 
 nobly settled, and the devil is in it if I don't work as nobly 
 for it.
 
 36 THOMAS CAMPBELL. [1777-1844. 
 
 June 25, 1815. Mr. Campbell asked me to come out and 
 
 see him to-day, and make it a long day's visit. So after the 
 
 . k morning service I drove out, and stayed with him until 
 
 nor'sLife nearly nine o'clock this evening. He lives in a pleas- 
 
 vol. i. chap. ' ant little box at Sydenham, nine miles from town, a 
 
 beautiful village, which looks more like an American 
 
 village than any I have seen in England. His wife is a bonny 
 
 little Scotch woman, with a great deal of natural vivacity. 
 
 His mode of life at Sydenhain was almost uniformly that 
 which he afterwards followed in London, when he made it a con- 
 stant residence. He rose not very early, breakfasted, 
 ding's Recol- studied for an hour or two, dined at two or three o'clock, 
 riftjYears. an ^ ^ en made a call or two. . . . He would return 
 home to tea, and then retire early to his study, remain- 
 ing there till a late hour ; sometimes even till an early one. His 
 life was strictly domestic ; he gave a dinner-party now and then, 
 and at some of them Thomas Moore, Rogers, and other literary 
 friends from town were present. His table was plain, hospitable, 
 and cheered by a hearty welcome. 
 
 Thorne, in his ' Hand-Book of the Environs of London,' 
 described this house in 1876 as on Peak Hill, ' the third on 
 the right before reaching Sydeuham Station.' It still stood 
 in 1885, unaltered since Campbell's occupancy of it, except 
 that the gardens about it had been covered with modern 
 villas, and that its rural character had disappeared. It was 
 one of a row of tall red brick buildings near Peak Hill Road, 
 with nothing to distinguish it from its neighbors, and was 
 numbered 13 Peak Hill Avenue. 
 
 In 1820 Campbell settled in London, on his appointment 
 as editor of the 'New Monthly Magazine.' He lodged for 
 a time in Margaret Street, Cavendish Square, but soon took 
 the house, then No. 10 Upper Seymour Street, since known 
 as No. 18 Seymour Street, Portmau Square, and unchanged in 
 1885, where he wrote ' Theodoric,' ' The Last Man,' etc., and 
 where he remained until he lost his wife, in 1828. Greatly 
 depressed in spirit after his bereavement, he resigned his
 
 1777-1844.] THOMAS CAMPBELL. 37 
 
 editorship and lived in loneliness and retirement at No. 61 
 Lincoln's Inn Fields. His chambers here were on the sec- 
 ond floor, and the mansion was still standing in 1885. 
 
 In 1830 he was living at No. 1 Middle Scotland Yard, 
 afterwards the Almonry Office. His other lodgings and 
 homes in London were at 42 Eaton Street, Stockbridge Ter- 
 race, Pimlico, a street since absorbed in Grosvenor Place, 
 and of course numbered ; No. 18 Old Cavendish Street, 
 Oxford Street, on the west side; in York Chambers, St. 
 James's Street, on the northeast corner of Piccadilly ; and at 
 No. 30 Foley Place, Regent Street, a few doors from Mid- 
 dleton Buildings. Foley Place was afterwards called Lang- 
 ham Street, and renumbered. In 1832, while devoting 
 himself to the cause of Poland, he occupied an attic at the 
 Polish Headquarters, in Sussex Chambers, No. 10 Duke 
 Street, St. James's Street, still in existence in 1885. 
 August 25, he writes : 
 
 Here in the Polish Chambers I daily parade the main room, 
 a superb hall, where all my books are ensconced, Dr Beat . 
 and where old Nol used to give audiences to his tie>s Meraoir 
 
 . . of Campbell, 
 
 foreign ambassadors. 1832. 
 
 Again, September 28, he writes : 
 
 I am not dissatisfied with my existence as it is now occu- 
 pied. ... I get up at seven, write letters for the Polish Asso- 
 ciation until half past nine, breakfast, go to the club 
 and read the newspaper until twelve. Then I sit clown 
 to my own studies, and with many and also vexatious interrup- 
 tions, do what I can till four. I then walk round the Park, and 
 generally dine out at six. Between nine and ten I return to cham- 
 bers, read a book or write a letter, and go to bed before twelve. 
 
 In 1840 Campbell leased the house No. 8 Victoria 
 Square, Buckingham Palace Eoad, Pimlico. It still stood 
 in 1885, on the south side and unaltered. He died at 
 Boulogne, France, June 15, 1844, and on the 3d of July 
 was buried in the Poets' Corner.
 
 38 THOMAS CARLYLE. [1795-1881. 
 
 THOMAS CAELYLE. 
 
 1795-1881. 
 
 /CARLYLE came first to London in 1824, and lodged 
 ^^ with Charles Buller at Kew Green. Later, he was 
 in the house of Edward Irving in Pentonville ; and during 
 the same year he took other rooms in Pentonville, not 
 very far from his friend. He had various residences dur- 
 ing his short visits to London; but it was not until 1834 
 that he finally went to the house at No. 5 Great Cheyue 
 Row, Chelsea, which was his home until his death in 1881. 
 Great Cheyne Row has been renumbered since Carlyle died ; 
 but his house, then No. 24, was standing in 1885. At the 
 time of his taking possession he wrote to his wife : 
 
 The street runs down upon the river, which I suppose you 
 might see by stretching out your head from the front window, at 
 a distance of fifty yards on the left. We are called 
 Carlyle, S vol. Cheyne Eow (pronounced Chainie Row), and are a 
 xvUL ap genteel neighborhood. . The street is flag-paved, sunk- 
 storied, iron-railed, all old-fashioned and tightly done 
 up. The house itself is eminent, antique, wainscoted to the very 
 ceiling, and has all been new painted and repaired ; broadish stairs 
 with massive balustrades (in the old style) corniced, and as thick as 
 one's thigh ; floors thick as a rock, wood of them here and there 
 worm-eaten, yet capable of cleanness, and still with thrice the 
 strength of a modern floor. And then as to rooms : Goody ! 
 Three stories besides the sunk story, in every one of them 
 three apartments, in depth something like forty feet in all, a front 
 dining-room (marble chimney-piece, etc.), then a back dining- 
 room or breakfast-room, a little narrower by reason of the kitchen 
 stairs; then out of this, and narrower still (to allow a back 
 window, you consider) a china room or pantry, or I know not
 
 1795-1881.] THOMAS CAELYLE. 39 
 
 what, all shelved and fit to hold crockery for the whole street. 
 Such is the ground area, which, of course, continues to the top, 
 and furnishes every bedroom with a dressing-room, or second bed- 
 room ; on the whole, a most massive, roomy, sufficient old house, 
 with places, for example, to hang, say, three dozen hats or cloaks 
 on, and as many curious and queer old presses and shelved closets 
 (all tight and new painted in their way) as would gratify the 
 most covetous Goody : rent thirty-five pounds. . . . We lie safe 
 at a bend of the river, away from all the great roads, have air and 
 quiet hardly inferior to Craigenputtock, an outlook from the back 
 windows into more leafy regions, with here and there a red high- 
 peaked old roof looking through, and see nothing of London 
 except by day the summits of St. Paul's Cathedral and West- 
 minster Abbey, and by night the gleam of the great Babylon, 
 affronting the peaceful skies. The house itself is probably the 
 best we have ever lived in, a right old strong, roomy brick 
 house built nearly one hundred and fifty years ago [written in 
 1834], and likely to see three races of these modern fashionables 
 fall before it comes down. 
 
 There he sat, aged, honored, famous, the leading man of 
 letters, perhaps, of his generation. An old dressing-gown wrapped 
 around him, slippers on his feet, his face grim as Robert 
 granite, and his eyes with that sad prophetic gaze Buchanan's 
 which is reproduced in all the photographs. On the Macpher- 
 book-shelves close around him were well-thumbed 8C 
 volumes, nearly all of them presentation copies, with the auto- 
 graphs of their mighty authors, chief among them a set of Goethe 
 with notes in the poet's own handwriting. . . . Only the day 
 before he had been sent for by the Queen of England as one of 
 the twa or three great men it behooved her to know and honor ; 
 and having spent several hours of conversation with her, he had 
 pronounced her ' a nice homely 'body, just like scores of farmers' 
 wives he had met in Allandale.' 
 
 Froude, in his 'Carlyle' (vol. iv. chap, xxxv.), thus de- 
 scribes his last hours : 
 
 His bed had been moved into the drawing-room, which still 
 bore the stamp of his wife's hand upon it. Her work-box and
 
 40 ELIZABETH CARTER. [1717-1806. 
 
 other ladies' trifles lay about in their old places. He had for- 
 bidden them to be removed, and they stood within reach of his 
 dying hand. He was wandering when I came to his side. He 
 recognized me. ' I am very ill,' he said. ' Is it not strange that 
 those people should have chosen the very oldest man in all 
 Britain to make suffer this way?' . . . When I saw him next, 
 his speech was gone. His eyes were as if they did not see, 
 or were fixed on something far away. . . . This was on the 4th 
 of February, 1881. The morning following he died. He had 
 been gone an hour when I reached the house. He lay calm and 
 still, an expression of exquisite tenderness subduing his rugged 
 features into feminine beauty. I have seen something like it in 
 Catholic pictures of dead saints, but never before or since on any 
 human countenance. 
 
 ELIZABETH CARTER. 
 
 1717-1806. 
 
 "Cj^ROM the age of nineteen until her death, Miss Carter 
 * or Mrs. Carter, as she was called later in life spent 
 much of her time in London. As a young girl she visited 
 her paternal uncle, who was a silk-mercer in the city, and 
 other friends, until 1762, when the success of her 'Epic- 
 tetus' made her comparatively independent, and she took 
 apartments at ]S"o. 20 Clarges Street, Piccadilly, on the first 
 floor. Here she lodged at intervals for many years. Upon 
 the death of her landlord, and the breaking up of his estab- 
 lishment, she went for a season or two to a lodging-house in 
 Chapel Street, May Fair ; but she ultimately came back to 
 the old neighborhood, and settled at No. 21 Clarges Street, 
 where she died a very old woman in 1806. The numbers 
 in Clarges Street have not been changed since her day.
 
 1667 <?H723.] SUSANNA CENTLIVRE. 41 
 
 There is a tradition that Miss Carter, while writing for the 
 ' Gentleman's Magazine ' under the name ' Eliza,' lodged 
 for a time at St. John's Gate (see JOHNSON). She was 
 buried in Grosvenor Chapel, an appendage to St. George's 
 Church, Hanover Square. It is situated in South Audley 
 Street, opposite Chapel Street. 
 
 SUSANNA CENTLIVEE. 
 1667(?)-1723. 
 
 'IP HE history of the early part of Mrs. Centlivre's life is 
 *- involved in obscurity. Even the place of her birth 
 and the exact date are unknown; and until 1706, when she 
 man-led Queen Anne's Yeoman of the Mouth, or, as Pope 
 more roughly expressed it, she became 'that Cook's wife of 
 Buckingham Court,' she never had permanent local habi- 
 tation or a reputable name in the metropolis. She spent 
 the last and happiest days of her life in Spring Gardens, 
 Charing Cross. Her husband's house was on the corner 
 of Buckingham Court. Spring Gardens garden only in 
 name is a curiously crooked little street, immediately 
 west of Trafalgar Square, connecting Whitehall with the 
 east end of the Mall, and St. James's Park. 
 
 The place of Mrs. Centlivre's burial has been for many 
 years undetermined, many of the older authorities among 
 others, the ' Biographia Dramatica ' placing it in the 
 Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, in which parish she died. 
 But search of the Piegister of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, 
 shows that she was buried in that church, 'Decemb'r 4 th , 
 1723.' The date of her birth or the position of her grave 
 is not recorded.
 
 42 THOMAS CHATTERTON. [1752-1770. 
 
 THOMAS CHATTERTOK 
 
 1752-1770. 
 
 /^HATTERTON'S career in London was crowded into 
 ^ four short melancholy months, and almost nothing is 
 known of his life here. He found lodgings at first in a 
 garret in the house of a Mr. Walmsley, a plasterer, in 
 Shoreditch ; he died by his own hands, in the house of a 
 stay-maker in Brooke Street, Holborn ; and he found rest in 
 a pauper's grave in the burial-ground of the workhouse in 
 Shoe Lane. 
 
 All that his biographers and admirers have been able to 
 learn about his sad London experiences is given below : 
 
 This boy [a nephew of Mr. Walmsley], who was the bed- 
 fellow of Chatterton, informed Mr. Croft that Chatterton used to 
 
 sit up all night reading and writing : that he never 
 John Davis's 
 
 Life of came to bed till very late, often three or four o'clock, 
 " ton- but that he was always awake when he waked, and 
 got up at the same time. He lived chiefly upon a halfpenny 
 roll, or a tart and some water. . . . He did not, however, wholly 
 abstain from meat, for he was once or twice known to take 
 a sheep's tongue out of his pocket. . . . Early in July Chat- 
 terton left his lodgings in Shoreditch, and went to lodge with 
 Mrs. Angel, a sack-maker, in Brooke Street, Holborn. It were 
 an injury not to mention historically the lodgings of Chatterton, 
 for every spot he made his residence has become poetical ground. 
 ... Of his extreme indigence there is positive testimony. Mrs. 
 Angel remembers that for two clays, when he did not absent 
 himself from his room, he went without food. . . . Mr. Cross, 
 an apothecary in Brooke Street, bore evidence that while Chatter- 
 ton lived with Mrs. Angel, he frequently called at the shop, and
 
 1752-1770.] THOMAS CHATTERTON. 43 
 
 was repeatedly pressed by Mr. Cross to dine or sup with him, but 
 always in vain. One evening, however, hunger so far prevailed 
 over his pride as to tempt him to partake of a barrel of oysters, 
 when he was observed to eat most voraciously. . . . Pressed 
 hard by indigence and its companions, gloom and despondency, 
 the mind of Chatterton became disordered, and on the night of the 
 24th of August, 1770, he swallowed a large dose of opium, which 
 caused his death. . . . The inqiiest of the jury was brought 
 in insanity, and the body of Chatterton was put into a shell, and 
 carried unwept, unheeded, and unowned to the burying-ground of 
 the workhouse in Shoe Lane. 
 
 We know, from the account of Sir Herbert Croft, that Chatter- 
 ton occupied the garret, a room looking out into the street, as the 
 only garret in this house does. ... It was a square Hotten's 
 and rather large room for an attic. It had two win- Adversana - 
 dows in it, lattice windows, or casements, built in a style which 
 I think is called ' dormer.' Outside ran the gutter, with a low 
 parapet wall, over which you could look into the street below. 
 The roof was very low, so low that I, who am not a tall man, 
 could hardly stand upright in it with my hat on ; and it had a 
 long slope, extending from the middle of the room down to the 
 windows. 
 
 No. 4 Brooke Street, Holborn, would be an interesting number 
 if it remained ; but as if everything connected with the history of 
 this ill-fated youth, except his fame, should be con- 
 
 WillitiiT* 
 
 demned to the most singular fatality, there is no Hewitt's 
 No. 4 ; it is swallowed up by an enormous furniture Haunts'of 
 warehouse, fronting into Holborn, and occupying what P^ 11 
 used to be numbers one, two, three, and four Brooke vol. i.': 
 Street. Thus the whole interior of these houses has 
 been cleared away, and they have been converted into one long 
 show-shop below. . . . Thus all memory of the particular spot 
 which was the room of Chatterton, and where he committed 
 suicide, is rooted out. What is still more strange, the very same 
 fate has attended his place of sepulture. He was buried among 
 the paupers in Shoe Lane ; so little was known or cared about 
 him and his fate, that it was some time, as stated, before his 
 friends learned the sad story ; in the mean time the exact site of
 
 44 THOMAS CHATTERTON. [1752-1770. 
 
 his grave was well-nigh become unknown. It appears, however, 
 from inquiries which I have made, that the spot was recognized ; 
 and when the public became at length aware of the genius that 
 had been suffered to perish in despair, a head stone was erected by 
 subscription among some admirers of his productions. . . . The 
 very resting-place of Chatterton could not escape the ungenial 
 character of his fate. London, which seemed to refuse to know 
 him when alive, refused a quiet repose to his ashes. . . . The 
 burial-ground in Shoe Lane was sold to form Farriugdon Market, 
 and tombs and memorials of the deceased disappeared to make 
 way for the shambles and cabbage stalls of the living. 
 
 On the 24th of August, 1770, at the age of seventeen years, 
 Cunning- nme months, and a few days, Chatterton put an end to 
 
 ham's Hand- his iif e by swallowing arsenic in water in the house 
 Book of jo 
 
 London: of a Mrs. Angel, a sack-maker in this street [Brooke 
 street, Street], then No. 4, now [1850] occupied by Steffenoni's 
 Hoiborn. furniture warehouse. His room, when broken open, 
 was found covered with scraps of paper. 
 
 Contemporary directories show Steffenoiii's to have been 
 on the northeast corner of Hoiborn and Brooke Street. His 
 number was 142 Hoiborn, occupied in 1885 by the estab- 
 lishment of the Universal Building Society. Mrs. Angel's 
 was about two hundred feet from Hoiborn. 
 
 Chatterton, writing to his mother, May 6, 1770, says : 
 
 I am quite familiar at the Chapter Coffee House, and know 
 all the geniuses there. A character is now unnecessary ; an au- 
 thor carries his genius in his pen. 
 
 And on the 30th May he wrote to his sister from ' Tom's 
 Coffee House in Birchin Lane.' 
 
 The Chapter Coffee House stood at No. 50 Paternoster 
 How, on the south side of that street, on the corner of Chap- 
 ter House Court and nearly opposite Ivy Lane. It ceased 
 to exist as a coffee-house in 1854, but was opened as a tav- 
 ern a few years later; and in 1885 the fine mahogany bal- 
 ustrades of the stairs, and the dining-rooms themselves,
 
 1328-1400.] GEOFFREY CHAUCER. 45 
 
 remained, comparatively unchanged since Chatterton's day 
 (see BRONTE, p. 22). 3 
 
 ' Tom's ' stood in Cowper's Court, Birchin Lane ; but no 
 trace of it remains. 
 
 GEOFFREY CHAUCER. 
 
 13 1400. 
 
 "M" OTHING positive is known of the place of Chaucer's 
 birth or education, although some of his commentators, 
 upon the dubious authority of the following lines in the 
 * Testament of Love,' claim that he was a native of London. 
 
 Also in the Citie of London, that is to mee soe deare and 
 sweete, in which I was foorth grown ; and more kindely love 
 have I to that place than to any other in yerth, as every kindely 
 creature hath full appetite to that place of his kindely ingendure. 
 
 Richard Chawcer, the father of the poet, citizen and vintner, 
 gave to the church of Aldermary, Bow Lane, his tenement and 
 tavern, corner of Kerion Lane. It is not certain that 
 the father of English poetry was born here ; some Antiquarian 
 claim the honor of his birthplace for Oxfordshire, and Londonf in 
 some for Berkshire. Camden says he was born in vo1 - h - 
 London ; and if so, most probably at the corner of this lane, in 
 the house just mentioned. 
 
 The Church of St. Mary Aldermary, destroyed by the 
 Great Fire, was rebuilt by Wren, and stands in Wat-ling 
 Street, near Bow Lane. Kerion Lane was never rebuilt after 
 the Fire. It ran parallel with Upper Thames Street, north of 
 St. James's Church, Garlickhithe. The present Maiden Lane 
 is very near its site. It is by no means certain, however, 
 that the poet was the son of the Richard Chawcer who is 
 mentioned above.
 
 46 GEOFFREY CHAUCER. [1328-1400. 
 
 The story of Chaucer being a member of the Temple, 
 and while there beating the Friar in Fleet Street, is also 
 thought now to be merely legendary. There is no absolute 
 reason for supposing that he was the Chaucer whose name 
 appeared upon the records. 
 
 Chaucer's It seemeth that both of these learned men [Gower 
 Spegbt y - T ' an< ^ Chaucer] were of the Inner Temple ; for not 
 prefixed to many years since Master Buckley did see a record in 
 Letter Folio the same house where Geoffrey Chaucer was fined two 
 shillings for beating a Franciscan Friar in Fleet Street. 
 
 Chaucer is believed to have been married in the chapel 
 of the Savoy Palace, and to have written certain of his 
 poems in the Palace itself. It stood on the north bank of 
 the Thames, west of Somerset House ; and the last remnants 
 of it were removed on the building of the approach to 
 Waterloo Bridge. Its name is retained in Savoy Hill, Sa- 
 voy Chapel, and Savoy Street, Strand. The present Savoy 
 Chapel was built a century after Chaucer's death, the church 
 in which ho was married having stood on the site of the 
 Admiralty Department of Somerset House. 
 
 Henry Thomas Riley, in his ' Memorials of London and 
 London Life in the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth 
 Centuries,' published in 1868, and compiled from the 'Early 
 Archives of the City of London,' quotes in full the ' Lease 
 to Geoffrey Chaucer of the dwelling house at Aldgate 48 
 Edward III. A. D. 1374,' as follows: 
 
 To all persons to whom this present writing indented shall 
 come : Adam de Bevry, Mayor, the Aldermen and Commonalty 
 of the City of London, Greeting : Know ye that we, with unan- 
 imous will and assent, have granted and released by these presents 
 unto Geoffrey Chaucer, the whole of the dwelling house above 
 the gate of Aldgate, with the rooms built over, and a certain 
 cellar beneath the same Gate, on the south side of that Gate, and 
 the appurtenances thereof ; to have and to hold the whole of the
 
 1328 1400.] GEOFFREY CHAUCER. 47 
 
 house aforesaid, with the rooms so built over and the said cellar 
 and the appurtenances thereof, unto the aforesaid Geoffrey, for 
 the whole life of him the same Geoffrey. 
 
 This gate was taken down in 1 GOG ; and another, built 
 upon the same spot, was also removed entirely one hundred 
 and fifty years later. Its site, by comparison with con- 
 temporary maps and plans, would seem to have been across 
 the present Aldgate, about one hundred feet west of Hounds- 
 ditch and the Minories, say half-way between Houndsditch 
 and Duke Street on the north side, and between the 
 Minories and Jewry Street on the south ; probably at the 
 junction of the parishes of St. Botolph Aldgate and St. 
 Katherine Cree, marked on the house numbered 2 Aldgate 
 in 1885. 
 
 Tradition also says that Chaucer wrote his ' Testament 
 of Love ' in the Tower, that he spent some of the later 
 years of his life in Thames Street, and that he died in the 
 immediate neighborhood of Westminster Abbey, where, in 
 the Poets' Corner, all that is mortal of him lies. 
 
 Geoffrey Chaucer, ' the first illuminer of the English language,' 
 had the lease for a tenement adjoining the "White Eose Tavern, 
 which abutted upon the Old Lady Chapel of the M E c 
 Abbey, at a yearlv rent of 53s. 4d. from Christmas Waicott's 
 
 Memorials of 
 
 A. D. 1399, for fifty-three years. Here probably he Westmin- 
 died, on October 25, 1400. This house, the tavern, ster> p ' 219 ' 
 and St. Mary's Chapel were demolished in 1502, to give place to 
 the gorgeous Mausoleum of King Henry VII. 
 
 There is still preserved a lease granted to him by the keeper 
 of the Lady Chapel, which makes over to him a tenement in the 
 garden attached to that building on the ground now Dean 
 covered by the enlarged Chapel of Henry VII. In Stanley's 
 
 x , . , . ,. , ,. . , -., ., , , f Westminster 
 
 this house he died, October 25th, in the last year of Abbey, 
 the fourteenth century. . . . Probably from the cir- chap- 1V- 
 cumstances of his dying so close at hand, combined with the 
 royal favor still continued by Henry IV., he was brought to the
 
 48 GEOFFREY CHAUCER. [1328-1400. 
 
 Abbey, and buried, where the functionaries of the monastery were 
 beginning to be interred, at the entrance of St. Benedict's Chapel. 
 There was nothing to mark the grave except a plain slab, which 
 was sawn up when Dryden's monument was erected. ... It was 
 not until the reign of Edward VI. [1551] that the present tomb, to 
 which apparently the poet's ashes were removed, was raised near 
 the grave by Nicholas Brigham, himself a poet, who was buried 
 close beside, with his daughter Kachel. The inscription closes 
 with the echo of the poet's own expiring counsel '^Erumnarum 
 requies mors.' Originally the back of the tomb contained a 
 portrait of Chaucer. 
 
 Chaucer's association with the Tabard Inn is well known. 
 In the ' Canterbury Tales ' he says it 
 
 ' Befel that in that season on a day, 
 At Southwark at the Tabard as I lay 
 Ready to wenden on my pilgrimage 
 To Canterbury with flevoute courage 
 At night vre came into that hostelry.' 
 
 The original Tabard, known to Chaucer, was taken down 
 early in the seventeenth century. According to Stow 
 (1598), it was amongst the most ancient of the many inns 
 for receipt of travellers in Southwark. It was situated 
 immediately opposite what was at that time known as St. 
 Margaret's Hill. On its site was built a second Tabard, 
 which stood until 1874, and was by many later-day pil- 
 grims believed to be the original. ' The Talbot Inn ' was 
 painted above its gateway, and there was also a sign bear- 
 ing the following inscription : ' This is the Inne where Sir 
 Jeffry Chaucer and the nine and twenty pilgrims lay, in 
 their journey to Canterbury, Anno 1383.' The latest Ta- 
 bard, at No. 85 High Street, Borough, on the corner of Tal- 
 bot Inn Yard, is of no interest in itself, except as marking 
 the site and perpetuating the name of one of the most 
 famous of old London hostelries.
 
 1694-1773.] THE EAKL OF CHESTERFIELD. 49 
 
 THE EAKL OF CHESTEKFIELD. 
 1694-1773. 
 
 E Earl of Chesterfield, born in London, was christened 
 in St. James's Church, Piccadilly, and spent the greater 
 part of his life in the metropolis. He lived at one time in 
 St. James's Square, and later in Bedford Street, Covent 
 Garden ; but his most important London home was the 
 mansion bearing his name in South Audley Street, May 
 Fair. It was commenced in 1747, and was still standing 
 in 1885, although its gardens have been built upon, and 
 are shorn of their fair proportions. 
 
 But perhaps the most interesting apartment in the whole 
 house [Chesterfield House] is the library ; there, where Lord 
 Chesterfield used to sit and write, still stand [1869] the 
 books which it is only fair to suppose that he read, Londoniana, 
 books of wide- world and enduring interest, and which Y2|- 5 j- = ,, 
 stand in goodly array, one row above another, by hun- 
 dreds. High above them, in separate panels, are ' Kit Kat ' sized 
 portraits of all the great English poets and dramatists, down to the 
 time of Chesterfield. ... In another room not far from the 
 library, one seems to gain an idea of the noble letter-writer's daily 
 life ; for it is a room which has not only its antechamber, in 
 which the aspirants for his lordship's favor were sometimes kept 
 waiting, but on its garden side a stone or marble terrace over- 
 looking the large garden, stretching out in lawn and flower-beds, 
 behind the house. Upon this terrace Chesterfield doubtless often 
 walked, snuff-box in hand, and in company with some choice 
 friend. 
 
 This room is the subject of E. M. Ward's well-known pic- 
 ture, ' Dr. Johnson in the Anteroom of Lord Chesterfield,' 
 
 4
 
 50 CHARLES CHURCHILL. [1731-1764. 
 
 an incident which is said to have occurred in 1749, although 
 good authorities assert that the Earl did not occupy the 
 house until three years later. 
 
 Chesterfield died in Chesterfield House in 1773, and was 
 buried in Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley Street (see 
 CARTER), according to the instructions contained in his will 
 that he should be placed in the graveyard nearest to the 
 spot where he might happen to die, and that the expenses 
 of his funeral Should not exceed one hundred pounds. His 
 remains were afterwards removed to the family burial-place 
 in Shelford Church, Nottinghamshire. 
 
 CHARLES. CHUECHILL. 
 
 1731-1764. 
 
 f~* HURCHILL was born in Vine Street, Westminster, in 
 ^** / 1731, and was probably christened in the neighboring 
 Church of St. John the Evangelist, Smith Square, of which 
 his father was curate at the time of his birth. 
 
 Churchill was sent to Westminster School in 1739, where 
 he remained ten years. 
 
 Shortly after [1746], having by some misdemeanor displeased 
 his masters, he was compelled to compose and recite in the school- 
 fifiii room a poetical declamation in Latin, by way of pen- 
 Life of ance. This he accomplished in a masterly manner, 
 to the astonishment of his masters and the delight of 
 his schoolfellows, some of whom became afterwards distinguished 
 men. We can fancy the scene at the day of recitation, the grave 
 and big-wigged schoolmasters looking grimly on, their aspect 
 however, becoming softer and brighter, as one large hexameter 
 rolls out after another ; the strong, awkward, ugly boy un-
 
 1731-1764.] CHARLES CHURCHILL. 51 
 
 blushingly pouring forth his energetic lines, cheered by the sight 
 of the relaxing gravity of his teachers' looks ; while around you 
 see the bashful, trenralous figure of poor Cowper, the small, thin 
 shape and bright eye of Warren Hastings, and the waggish 
 countenance of Colnian [the elder], all eagerly watehni" the re- 
 cital, and all at last distended and brightened with joy at his 
 signal triumph. 
 
 St. Peter's College or, as it is more familiarly called, 
 Westminster School in which have been educated so many 
 famous Englishmen, is immediately adjoining the cloisters 
 of the Abbey, the entrance being through the old gateway, 
 said to have been designed by Inigo Jones, in Little Dean's 
 Yard. 
 
 Churchill contracted a Fleet marriage at an early age, and 
 lived unhappily with his wife. In 1758 he was appointed 
 successor to his father in the Church of St. John, and is said 
 to have preached his father's old sermons, and generally to 
 have conducted himself in a manner unbecoming a clergy- 
 man. At the same time he was acting as tutor in a girls' 
 seminary at Queen Square, Bloomsbury ; but his habits were 
 so irregular that he was compelled to resign both his church 
 and his school. 
 
 One of Churchill's favorite places of resort was the Bed- 
 ford, ' under the piazza in Covent Garden.' It was on the 
 corner near the entrance to the theatre, and its name was 
 perpetuated in 1885 in the Bedford Hotel. 
 
 He was a member of the Beefsteak Club, which met in 
 a room at the top of Govent Garden Theatre in Churchill's 
 time. Wilkes was his sponsor in the society ; but his con- 
 duct was such as to shock and disgust even an assemblage 
 of men not over particular; and to avoid expulsion, after 
 the publication of his desertion of his wife, he resigned.
 
 52 COLLEY GIBBER. [1671-1757 
 
 COLLEY GIBBER. 
 
 1671-1757. 
 
 f~^ OLLEY CIBBER, according to his own statement, ' was 
 ^ born in London on the 6th of November, 1671, in 
 Southampton Street, facing Southampton House.' 
 
 Southampton House, afterwards Bedford House, taken 
 down in the beginning of the present century, occupied the 
 north side of Bloomsbury Square. Evelyn speaks of it in 
 his Diary, October, 1664, as in course of construction. 
 Another and an earlier Southampton House in Holborn, 
 'a little above Holborn Bars,' was removed some twenty 
 years before Gibber's birth. He was, therefore, probably 
 born at the upper or north end of Southampton Street, 
 facing Bloomsbury Square, where now are comparatively 
 modern buildings, and not in Southampton Street, Strand, 
 as is generally supposed. 
 
 Gibber, in his 'Apology,' says nothing of his home life 
 or of his social haunts, although he speaks frequently and 
 freely of the scenes of his professional labors. 
 
 From 1711 until 1714 he lived in Spring Gardens, White- 
 hall (see Mrs. CENTLIVRE), ' near the Bull Head Tavern,' of 
 which now there is no trace left. 
 
 Cunningham, in his ' Hand-Book,' quotes the following 
 advertisement from the ' Daily Courant,' January 20, 1 703 
 [sicy probably 1713]: 
 
 In or near the old play house in Drury Lane on Monday last 
 
 the 19th of January a watch was dropped having a Tortoise 
 shell case inlaid with silver, a silver chain and a gold seal ring 
 
 the arms a cross wavy and cheque. Whoever brings it to
 
 1671-1757.] COLLEY CIBBEK. 53 
 
 Mr. Gibber at his house near the Bull Head Tavern in Old Spring 
 Gardens, at Charing Cross, shall have three guineas reward. 
 
 Walpole declared that Gibber wrote one of his plays in 
 the little cottage which stood on the sitd- of the afterwards 
 famous Strawberry Hill (see WALPOLE). 
 
 He is known to have lived at Islington, and in Berke- 
 ley Square, in an old-fashioned town mansion, standing 
 in 1885. 
 
 Colley Gibber lived in Berkeley Square at the north corner 
 of Bruton Street, where my mother told me she saw 
 him once standing at his parlor window, drumming i^^- 
 with his hands on the frame. She said he appeared rds of my 
 like a calm, grave, and reverend old gentleman. 
 
 Among them all, Colley kept his own to the last. A short 
 time before the last hour arrived, Horace Walpole hailed him on 
 his birthday with a good-morrow, and ' I am glad, sir, 
 to see you looking so well.' ' Egad, sir,' replied the n^of^he " 
 old gentleman, all diamonded and powdered and dan- f^jfc^ r 
 dined, ' at eighty-four it is well for a man that he can 
 look at all.' . . . And now he crosses Piccadilly and passes through 
 Albemarle Street, slowly but cheerfully, with an eye and a salu- 
 tation for any pretty woman of his acquaintance, and with a word 
 for any ' good fellow ' whose purse he has lightened, or who has 
 lightened his, at dice or whist. And so he turns into the adja- 
 cent square; and as his servant closes the door, after admitting 
 him, neither of them wots that the master has passed over the 
 threshold for the last time a living man. In December, 1757, I 
 read in contemporary publications that c there died at his house 
 in Berkeley Square, Colley Gibber, Esq., Poet Laureate.' . . . 
 Colley Gibber was carried to sleep with kings and heroes in 
 Westminster Abbey. 
 
 Dr. Doran is not to be relied upon here. Gibber certainly 
 was not buried in the Abbey, and according to other authori- 
 ties he died at Islington. A careful search through files of 
 contemporary publications in the British Museum has failed 
 to reveal any mention of the place of his death.
 
 54 COLLEY CIBBER. [1671-1757. 
 
 Samuel Lewis, in his ' History of Islington,' published 
 in 1842, describes the 'Castle public house and tea gardens 
 at the northern termination of Colebrooke (sic) Row, Isling- 
 ton ' (see LAMB), and asserts that ' in the house next to this 
 tavern, Colley Cibber lived and died ' (chap. ix. pp. 351, 352). 
 The Castle no longer exists. 
 
 Cibber was buried by the side of his father and mother, 
 in a vault under the Danish Church, situated in Wellclose 
 Square, Ratcliffe Highway (since named St. George Street). 
 This church, according to an inscription placed over the 
 doorway, was built in 1696 by Cains Gabriel Cibber himself, 
 by order of the King of Denmark, for the use of such of his 
 Majesty's subjects as might visit the port of London. The 
 church was taken down some years ago (1868-70), and St. 
 Paul's Schools were erected on its foxindation, which was left 
 intact. Rev. Dan. Greatorex, Vicar of the Parish of St. 
 Paul, Dock Street, in a private note written in the sum- 
 mer of 1883, says : 
 
 Colley Cibber and his father and mother were buried in the 
 vault of the old Danish Church. When the church was removed, 
 the coffins were all removed carefully into the crypt under the 
 apse, and then bricked up. So the bodies are still there. The 
 Danish Consul was with me when I moved the bodies. The cof- 
 fins had perished except the bottoms. I carefully removed them 
 myself personally, and laid them side by side at the back of the 
 crypt, and covered them with, earth. 
 
 Cibber was the only English actor ever elected a member 
 of White's, which originally was situated at Nos. 69 and 70 
 St. James's Street, ' near the bottom on the west side.' In 
 1755, two years before Gibber's death, it was removed to the 
 position it has so long held, Nos. 37 and 38 St. James's 
 Street. He was also one of the original members of the 
 ' Spiller's Head Club,' which met at the Inn of John Spiller, 
 Clare Market, Lincoln's Inn Fields. The house, if standing,
 
 1671-1757.] COLLEY GIBBER. 55 
 
 cannot now be identified, and Clare Market has changed 
 greatly for the worse since Gibber's day. 
 
 He was frequently found at Tom's Coffee House, which 
 stood at No. 17 Russell Street, Covent Garden. This build- 
 ing was taken down in 1865, and on its site was erected the 
 National Deposit Bank. 
 
 Mr. Murphy told me also that he was once present at Tom's 
 Coffee House, which was only open to subscribers, when Colley 
 was engaged at whist, and an old general was his part- 
 ner. As the cards were dealt to him, he took up every 
 one in turn, and expressed his disappointment at every rcls of m y 
 indifferent one. In the progress of the game he did 
 not follow suit, and his partner said, ' What, have you not a spade, 
 Mr. Gibber 1 ' The latter, looking at his hand, answered, ' Oh, 
 yes, a thousand ! ' which drew a very peevish comment from the 
 General. On which, Gibber, who was shockingly addicted to 
 
 swearing, said, 'Don't be angry; for, , I can play ten 
 
 times worse if I like.' 
 
 I cannot let slip the present opportunity in mentioning that the 
 house in which I reside (No. 17 Russell Street, Covent Garden) 
 was the famous Tom's Coffee House, memorable in the Tiu>g j^ 
 
 reign of Queen Anne, and for more than half a century scriptive 
 
 J Particulars 
 afterwards ; the room in which I conduct my business of the Eng- 
 
 3i it. x i_- t, it-rfA -L. " lish Corona- 
 
 as a coin-dealer is that which in 1764, by a guinea tion Med- 
 
 subscription among nearly seven hundred of the nobil- als- 
 ity, foreign ministers, gentry, and geniuses of the age, became 
 the card room and place of meeting for many of the now illus- 
 trious dead, till in 1768, when a voluntary subscription among its 
 members induced Mr. Haines, the then proprietor, to take in the 
 next room westward as a coffee room, and the whole floor en suite 
 was constructed card and conversation rooms.
 
 66 SAMUEL TAYLOK COLERIDGE. [1772-1834. 
 
 SAMUEL TAYLOE COLEKIDGE. 
 
 1772-1834. 
 
 COLERIDGE'S associations with London began when he 
 Nf? was but ten years old. He entered the Blue Coat 
 School on the 18th of July, 1782. Charles Lamb, in his 
 Essay, ' Christ-Hospital Five and Thirty Years Ago," describes 
 Coleridge's experiences there; and Coleridge himself has 
 frequently told the story of his school life. 
 
 The discipline of Christ-Hospital in my day was extra Spar- 
 tan. All domestic ties were to be put aside. ' Boy,' I remember 
 r . Boyer saying to me once when I was crying, the first 
 
 Table Talk, day of my return after the holidays, ' boy, the school 
 
 is your father ; boy, the school is your mother ; boy, 
 the school is your brother ; the school is your sister, boy ; the 
 school is your first cousin and your second cousin, and all the rest 
 of your relations. Let us have no more crying.' 
 
 Continmng an account of himself at school, Coleridge says : 
 ' From eight to fourteen I was a playless clay-dreamer, a helluo 
 
 librorum, my appetite for which was indulged by a 
 
 James Gil- . , . ., 
 
 man's Life singular incident ; a stranger who was struck by my 
 vol C i > chap g i' conversa tion. made me free of a circulating library in 
 King Street, Cheapside.' The incident indeed was 
 singular. Going down the Strand in one of his day-dreams, fancy- 
 ing himself swimming across the Hellespont, thrusting his hands 
 before him as in the act of swimming, his hand came in contact 
 with a gentleman's pocket ; the gentleman seized his hand, and 
 turning round . . . accused him of an attempt to pick his 
 pocket ; the frightened boy sobbed out his denial of the intention, 
 and explained to him that he thought himself swimming the 
 Hellespont. 
 
 Coleridge went to town [in 1782], and Buller placed him in 
 the Blue Coat School. The family, being proud, thought them-
 
 1772-1834.] SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE. 57 
 
 selves disgraced by this. His brothers would not let him visit 
 them in the school dress, and he would not go in any He 
 other. The iudge invited him to dine in his house Crabb 
 
 Eobinson's 
 
 every Sunday. One day, however, there was company, Diary, AU- 
 and the Blue Coat boy was sent to the second table. & 
 He was then only nine years old, but he would never go to the 
 house again. 
 
 I heard this anecdote from a gentleman who was a school- 
 fellow of Coleridge's. Coleridge was wildly rushing through New- 
 gate Street to be in time for school, when he upset an 
 old woman's apple-stall. ' Oh, you little devil ! ' she Retrospect 
 exclaimed bitterly. But the boy, noting the mischief Life Cole- 
 he had done, ran back and strove to make the best rid s e - 
 amends he could by gathering up the scattered fruit and lament- 
 ing the accident. The grateful woman changed her tone, patted 
 the lad on the head, and said, 'Oh, you little angel! ' 
 
 Christ-Hospital, in Newgate Street, better known as the 
 Blue Coat School, was built in 1553, on the site of the old 
 Monastery of Grey Friars. The pupils in 1885 still wore 
 the uncomfortable although picturesque dress originally de- 
 signed for them in the reign of Edward, the Boy King, who 
 was founder of the institution ; and the ' Blue Coat Boys,' 
 so frequently met with in the streets of London, are clad 
 precisely as were Coleridge, Charles Lamb, Leigh Hunt, and 
 many others who became afterwards distinguished men. 
 
 Coleridge was only occasionally in London in the early 
 part of the century ; the Continent or the Lake Country of 
 England being more to his liking. In 1799 he lodged in 
 King Street, Covent Garden; in 1801 he was found in 
 Bridge Street, Westminster, the character of which street has 
 entirely changed ; and, according to Mr. Rogers, he lodged 
 once in Pall Mall. 
 
 Coleridge was a marvellous talker. One morning he talked 
 three hours without intermission about poetry, and so admirably 
 that I wish every word he uttered had been written down. But 
 sometimes his harangues were quite unintelligible, not only to
 
 SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE. [1772-1834, 
 
 myself but to others. Wordsworth and I called upon him one 
 forenoon when he was lodging in Pall Mall. He talked uninter- 
 ruptedly for about two hours, during which Words- 
 Sabfe^aik wor th listened to him with profound attention, every 
 now and then nodding his head as if in assent. On 
 quitting the lodging I said to Wordsworth, ' Well, for my own 
 part I could not make head or tail of Coleridge's oration ; pray, 
 did you understand it ? ' ' Not one syllable of it,' was Words- 
 worth's reply. 
 
 In 1810 Coleridge was living at No. 7 Portland Place, 
 Hammersmith, a short street off Hammersmith Road ; and 
 it is said that he once had lodgings in Edwardes Square, 
 Kensington, although his biographers do not record it. In 
 1816 he went from No. 42 Norfolk Street, one of a row of 
 old-fashioned houses still standing in 1885, next to the Strand 
 end of the street, to the house of his friend and biographer, 
 John Gilman at the Grove, Highgate, where he spent in com- 
 parative retirement the last years of life, and where in 1834 
 he died. 
 
 Coleridge's Highgate house was the third in the Grove, 
 counting from the top of Highgate Hill, facing the Grove, 
 and obliquely opposite St. Michael's Church, in which is a 
 mural tablet to Coleridge's memory. The house a roomy, 
 respectable brick mansion, two stories high, with a fine out- 
 look over Nightingale Lane and Lord Mansfield's Woods, 
 towards Hampstead was standing in 1885 as when Cole- 
 ridge died in it fifty years before, except that a new brick 
 gable had been lately added, blocking up the end window of 
 Coleridge's bedroom, the room in which he breathed his last. 
 
 Dr. B. E. Martin, in a private letter from Highgate in 
 1884, writes : 
 
 Recently an old laborer here, very old and fearing death, 
 sent for the curate of the parish, who discovered that he was 
 using laudanum for his rheumatism, and warned him of the 
 risks he ran. The old man replied : ' Why, 1 know better, Par-
 
 1772-1834.] SAMUEL TAYLOR COLEK1DGE. 59 
 
 son ; my brother was doctor's boy to Mr. Gilman fifty years or 
 more ago, and there was an old chap there called Colingrigs, or 
 some such name, as Mr. Gilman thought lie was a-curing of drink- 
 ing laudanum, and my brother he used to fill a bottle with that 
 stuff from Mr. Oilman's own bottles, and hand it to me, and I used 
 to put it under my jacket and give it to h'old Colingrigs, and we 
 did that for years and it never hurted him.' . . . Mrs. Button, a 
 charming old lady greatly respected in Highgate, lives in an ivy- 
 covered cottage on the Grove, and remembers Coleridge well. 
 She used to sit on his knee and prattle to him, and she tells how 
 he was followed about the Grove by troops of children for the sake 
 of the sweeties of which his pockets were always full. 
 
 Another old lady, as recorded by Hodder in his ' Memoivs 
 of my Time ' (chap, v.), gives another account of Coleridge's 
 life in Highgate : 
 
 Meadows, in these our pleasant perambulations, was wont to 
 speak of an old lady who kept the Lion and Sun Hotel in that 
 neighborhood [Highgate]. This was a favorite resort of Coleridge ; 
 and the communicative landlady used to remark that he was a 
 great talker, and 'when he began there was no stopping him.' 
 Whenever she returned to the room, she said, after leaving it for 
 a short time, he would still ' be going on,' and sometimes he made 
 such a noise that she wished him further. 
 
 The Red Lion and Sun Tavern, an old-fashioned two- 
 storied red-tiled sloping-roofed little inn on the North Road, 
 just beyond Hampstead Lane and the old Gate House, 
 was standing in 1885. 
 
 Coleridge was buried in the yard of the old chapel in High- 
 gate. His tomb was covered by a large slab. In 1866 the 
 New Grammar School was built on these grounds, and the 
 grave of Coleridge was enclosed in the crypt of its chapel. 
 William Winter, in his 'English Rambles,' published in 
 1883, thus describes it as he saw it at that time : 
 
 He should have been laid in some wild, free place, where the 
 grass could grow, and the trees could wave their branches over
 
 60 WILLIAM COLLINS. [1720-1757. 
 
 his head. They placed him in a ponderous toinb, of gray stone, 
 in Highgate Churchyard ; and in later times they reared a new 
 building above it, the Grammar School of the village, so that 
 now the tomb, fenced round with iron, is in a cold, barren, gloomy 
 crypt, accessible, indeed, from the churchyard, through several 
 arches, but dim and doleful in its surroundings, as if the evil 
 and cruel fate that marred his life were still triumphant over his 
 ashes. 
 
 Coleridge in his young days was fond of the Salutation 
 and Cat, a public house at No. 1 7 Newgate Street, where his 
 companions at times were Southey and Charles Lamb. This 
 tavern, with an entrance on Rose Street, was known of late 
 years simply as the Salutation. It was partly destroyed 
 by fire in the year 1883. A much earlier Salutation Inn, 
 which stood nearly opposite it, between the lodges of Christ- 
 Hospital and a few yards back from Newgate Street, has 
 long since disappeared. 
 
 WILLIAM COLLINS. 
 
 1720-1757. 
 
 Tyf THEN Collins arrived in London in 1744, fresh from 
 * * the University, he seems to have made himself very 
 conspicuous by his fine clothes, empty pockets, and magnifi- 
 cent opinion of his own genius. He was to be found in the 
 coffee-houses ; but no record is left of his lodging or home 
 life, except that Dr. Johnson visited him once at Islington, 
 in what part of that suburb is not known, and that he lived 
 at one time near Soho Square. 
 
 Going from Oxford to London, he [Collins] commenced a man 
 of the town, spending his time in all the dissipation of Ranelagh,
 
 1732-1794.] GEORGE COLMAN, SR. 61 
 
 Vauxhall, and the Play houses ; and was romantic enough to 
 suppose that his superior abilities would draw the Gilbert 
 attention of the great world bv means of whom he White, iu the 
 
 Gentleman's 
 
 was to make his fortune. ... I met him otten, and Magazine, 
 remember he lodged in a little house with a Miss 
 Bundy, at the corner of King's Square Court, Soho, now [1781] 
 a warehouse. 
 
 King's Square Court is that part of the street since called 
 Carlisle Street, which runs from Dean Street, Soho, to Great 
 Chapel Street. In Collins's day Soho Square was King's 
 Square. 
 
 Collins strutted about the Bedford Coffee House on the 
 Piazza, Covent Garden (see CHURCHILL), and Slaughter's 
 Coffee House, which stood on the west side of St. Martin's 
 Lane, three doors from Newport Street, but which was taken 
 down when Cranbourn Street was cut through the houses 
 of that vicinity to make a new thoroughfare between Long 
 Acre and Leicester Square. 
 
 GEOEGE COLMAN, SR. 
 
 1732-1794. 
 
 /^EORGE COLMAN, SR., 'the elder Colman,' was a 
 ^-* pupil of Westminster School (see CHURCHILL, p. 50). 
 
 In his youth he lived with his widowed mother near Rosa- 
 mond's Pond in the southwest corner of St. James's Park. 
 The pond was filled up in 1772, and the house taken down. 
 
 Colman was a member of the Society of Lincoln's Inn, 
 and lived at one time in Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn 
 Fields. He also lived in the left-hand corner of Bateman's 
 Buildings, on the south side of Soho Square. It occupies 
 the site of the gardens of the Duke of Monmouth, whose
 
 62 GEOKGE COLMAN, JH. [1762-1836. 
 
 watchword on the night of Sedgemoor was ' Soho,' and was 
 unchanged in 1885. Some years before his death, Colman 
 lived in retirement in Richmond, a short distance west of 
 Richmond Bridge, and he died in a retreat for the insane at 
 Paddingtou. He was buried in the Church of St. Mary the 
 Virgin, Kensington High Street. The old church has been 
 removed, but a tablet to Colman's memory is to be found in 
 the north transept of the new building erected on its site. 
 
 Kensington Church, as I remember it in my boyhood, was 
 
 one of the few really picturesque buildings of the kind near 
 
 London. It was, of course, by no means worthy of a 
 
 History of P ar i sn which can boast of such aristocratic residents 
 
 London, vol. g^ neighbors as the Kensington of to-day, but it har- 
 
 ii. chap. xxi. 
 
 monized well with what is left of Old Kensington 
 Square. . . . The old church, with its quaint curved gable to 
 the street corner, and its well-weathered red brick, has also dis- 
 appeared. 
 
 Colman frequented Tom's Coffee House, No. 17 Russell 
 Street, Covent Garden (see GIBBER). Among other clubs, 
 he was a member of the Beefsteak Club, which met in Co- 
 vent Garden Theatre (see CHURCHILL), and of the Dilettanti 
 Society, which met, in Colman's day, at Parsloe's, St. 
 James's Street, a tavern familiar to the literary men of more 
 than one generation. It disappeared early in the nineteenth 
 century. 
 
 GEORGE COLMAN, JR. 
 
 1762-1836. 
 
 E younger Colman.' like his father, was educated 
 at Westminster School. He was a student of Lin- 
 coln's Inn, and occupied chambers in King's Bench Walk, 
 Inner Temple.
 
 1670-1729.] WILLIAM CONGEE VE. 63 
 
 He lived with his father for a time in Soho Square, and 
 was a member of the Beefsteak Club. 
 
 He was married in St. Luke's, Chelsea (Chelsea Old 
 Church), in 1788, and died at No. 22 Brompton Square, 
 Knightsbridge, the numbers of which have not been 
 changed. 
 
 He was buried by the side of his father in the vaults of 
 Kensington Church. 
 
 WILLIAM CONGEEVE. 
 
 1670-1729. 
 
 /^ONGREVE came to London in his twenty-first year, 
 ^~^ and entered the Middle Temple, where he remained 
 for some time. He lived, successively, in Southampton 
 Street, Howard Street, and Surrey Street, Strand, in houses 
 that it is not possible to identify now, even if they still 
 stand, which is not at all probable. Streets were not num- 
 bered until after Congreve's day. In Howard Street Mrs. 
 Bracegirdle was his neighbor. 
 
 Congreve was very intimate for years with Mrs. Bracegirdle, 
 and lived in the same street, his house very near hers, 
 until his acquaintance with the young Duchess of Anecdotes: 
 Marlborough. He then quitted that house. The ^oran- 
 Duchess showed me [Dr. Young] a diamond necklace dnm Book, 
 that cost seven thousand pounds, and was purchased 
 with the money Congreve left her. How much better would it 
 have been to have given it to poor Mrs. Bracegirdle ! 
 
 It was while living in Surrey Street, in 1728, that Con- 
 greve received the memorable visit from Voltaire, in which 
 he was so justly rebuked by the French philosopher.
 
 64 ABRAHAM COWLEY. [1618-1667. 
 
 Congreve spoke of his works as trifles that were beneath him, 
 
 and hinted to me in our first conversation that I should visit him 
 
 upon no other footing than upon that of a gentle- 
 
 LettersTcfn man wno ^ e ^ a ^ e ^ plainness and simplicity. I 
 
 the English answered that had he been so unfortunate as to be a 
 
 Nation. 
 
 mere gentleman, I should never have come to see him ; 
 and I was very much disgusted at so unreasonable a piece of 
 vanity. 
 
 Congreve died in Surrey Street, and lies in the south aisle 
 of the nave of Westminster Abbey, not far from the grave 
 of Mrs. Oldfield. 
 
 Having lain in state in the Jerusalem Chamber, he was 
 buried in Westminster Abbey, where a monument 
 Lives of the erected to his memory by Henrietta, Duchess of 
 
 j^el-e/ C n " Marlborough, to whom, for reasons either not known 
 or not mentioned, he bequeathed a legacy of about ten 
 thousand pounds. 
 
 One of Congreve's favorite taverns was the Half Moon, 
 which has long since disappeared, but the site of which is 
 believed to be marked by Half Moon Passage, No. 158 
 Aldersgate Street. 
 
 He was also a member of the Kit Kat Club (see ADDI- 
 SON, p. 8). 
 
 ABRAHAM COWLEY. 
 
 1618-1667. 
 
 WLEY, the son of a grocer, was born in Fleet Street, 
 near Chancery Lane. His father's house is known 
 to have 'abutted on Sargeant's Inn,' but no trace of it 
 now remains. Izaak Walton must have been his near 
 neighbor there.
 
 1618-1667.] ABRAHAM COWLEY. 65 
 
 He was a pupil of Westminster School (see CHURCHILL, 
 p. 50), and went to Cambridge in 1636. In his Essays 
 (XL, ' On Myself,') he says : 
 
 When I was a very young lad at school, instead of running on 
 holidays and playing with my fellows, I was wont to steal from 
 them, and walk in the fields, either alone with a book or with 
 some one companion, if I could find any of the same temper. 
 
 Cowley had but little experience of London ; and as his 
 biographies show, he soon grew weaiy of city life, and sought 
 rural quiet and retirement, first at Battersea, then at Barn- 
 Elms, and finally at Chertsey, where he died. In his later 
 years he is said to have shown a strange and marked aversion 
 to female society, leaving a room the moment a woman 
 entered it. 
 
 Cowley House . . . in which Cowley spent his last days, is 
 on the west side of Guildford Street [Chertsey], near the railway 
 station. ... It was a little house, with ample gardens 
 and pleasant meadows attached. Not of brick indeed, Hand-Book 
 
 but half timber, with a fine old oak staircase and 
 balusters, and one or two wainscoted chambers, which 
 yet [1876] remain much as when Cowley dwelt there, as do also 
 the poet's study, a small closet with a view meadow-ward to St. 
 Anne's Hill, and the room, overlooking the road, in which he 
 died. He lived here little more than two years in all. 
 
 The greater part of this house was taken down, and again 
 rebuilt in 1878. 
 
 Cowley's allowance was at last not above three hundred a 
 year. He died at Chertsey ; and his death was occasioned by a 
 mean accident, whilst his great friend, Dean Sprat, was 
 with him on a visit there. They had been together Anecdotes, 
 to see a neighbor of Cowley's, who, according to the v^so. 1 " 
 fashion of those times, made them too welcome. 
 They did not set out for their walk home till it was too late, 
 and had drank so deep that they lay in the fields all night. 
 
 5
 
 66 WILLIAM COWPER. [1731-1800. 
 
 This gave Cowley the fever that carried him off. The parish 
 still talks of the drunken Dean. 
 
 It is but just to the memory of Cowley to say that other 
 authorities assert that the cold which ended his life was con- 
 tracted while he was ' staying too long in the fields to give 
 directions to his laborers.' When Charles II. heard of his 
 death he is said to have exclaimed, 'Mr. Cowley has not 
 left behind him a better man in England.' Few men of 
 Mr. Cowley's guild in England are more entirely forgotten 
 in the Victorian age. 
 
 Cowley was biiried hi the Abbey, ' next to Chaucer's monu- 
 ment,' August 3, 1667. 
 
 Went to Mr. Cowley's funeral, whose corpse lay at Walling- 
 
 ford House [the site of which is occupied by the Admiralty 
 
 Office on Whitehall], and was thence conveyed to 
 
 Evelvn's 
 
 Diary, AU- Westminster Abbey, in a hearse with six horses, and 
 gust 3, 1667. ^ f unera i decency ; near a hundred coaches of noble- 
 men and persons of quality following, among them all the wits 
 of the town, divers bishops and clergymen. 
 
 WILLIAM COWPER 
 
 1731-1800. 
 
 was a pupil of Westminster School from his 
 ^- / tenth to his eighteenth year, which were probably the 
 happiest years of his life. Among his schoolfellows were 
 Warren Hastings, Cumberland, and Churchill. 
 
 The time of William Cowper seems now, so far as West- 
 minster is concerned, equally remote. It was in the churchyard 
 of St. Margaret's, while he was a scholar at Westminster, that he
 
 1731-1800.] WILLIAM COWPER. 67 
 
 received one of those impressions which had so strong an effect 
 on his after life. Crossing the burial-ground one dark evening, 
 towards his home in the school, he saw the glimmering Loftie . s 
 lantern of a grave-digger at work. He approached to History of 
 
 , . , . ,, , London, 
 
 look on, with a boyish craving lor horrors, and was vol. a 
 struck by a skull heedlessly thrown out of the crowded c ap ' XVL 
 earth. To the mind of William Cowper such an accident had 
 ^an extraordinary significance. In after life he remembered it 
 as the occasion of religious emotions not easily suppressed. On 
 the south side of the church, until the recent restorations, there 
 was a stone the inscription of which suggests the less gloomy 
 view of Cowper's character. It marked the burial-place of 
 Mr. John Gilpin ; the date was not to be made out, but it must 
 have been fresh when Cowper was at school, and it would be 
 absurd to doubt that the future poet had seen it, and perhaps 
 unconsciously adopted from it the name of his hero. 
 
 After leaving Westminster School, Cowper went into 
 solitary lodgings in the Middle Temple ; but in 1 754 or 
 1755 he took chambers in the Inner Temple, where for a 
 number of years he devoted much of his time to composi- 
 tion, and not a little of it to thoughts of love, for it was 
 here that he met his first great sorrow in life in the refusal 
 of his family to permit his marriage with his cousin, and it 
 was here that his mental derangement led to his attempt 
 at suicide. After his removal in 1764 to the Asylum for 
 the Insane, on St. Peter Street, St. Albans, he resolved to 
 return no more to London, and probably never saw the me- 
 tropolis again. 6 In none of the published Lives of Cowper, 
 nor in the autobiographical fragment printed by Grimshaw, 
 is any hint given as to the exact sites of Cowper's homes 
 in the Temple, or elsewhere in London. 
 
 He completed the weary Task of his life in 1800. 
 
 When Cowper lived in the Temple he was frequently to 
 be found at ' Dick's Coffee House,' No. 8 Fleet Street, near 
 Temple Bar, then called ' Richard's ' (see ADDISON, p. 8).
 
 68 GEORGE CRABBE [1754-1832. 
 
 GEORGE CEABBE. 
 
 1754-1832. 
 
 (~* RABBE ' took lodgings near the Exchange ' when he 
 ^~ / arrived in London, a literary adventurer, in 1780. In 
 1817 he lodged at No. 37 Bury Street, St. James's, rebuilt 
 and a hotel in 1885. He was a welcome guest at Holland 
 House (see ADDISON, p. 4), at the house of Mr. Murray the 
 publisher, No. 50 A, Albernarle Street, Piccadilly (see BYROX, 
 p. 33), and at the house of Edmund Burke, in Charles Street, 
 St. James's Square (see BURKE, p. 28) ; but the greater part of 
 his life was spent in the rural parishes of England, and 
 London rarely saw him. He was a frequent guest at ' The 
 Hill,' the house of his friend Lemuel Hoare, at North End, 
 Hampstead Heath. It was, in 1885, a large yellow brick 
 mansion that had been renewed, although its old gate-posts 
 were retained. It faced the east, the last house on the 
 Heath, and at the top of Hendon Road. 
 
 In one of his letters he says, ' I rhyme with a great deal 
 of facility at Hampstead.' 
 
 In his Diary, July 15, 1817, he records the writing of 
 ' some lines in the solitude of Somerset House, not fifty 
 yards from the Thames on one side, and the Strand on the 
 other, but quiet as the lands of Arabia.' 
 
 One of Crabbe's later resorts in London was the Hum- 
 mums, on the southeast corner of the Market Place, Covent 
 Garden, an old-fashioned hotel, still frequented in 1885 by 
 the sons and grandsons of the men who knew and met Mr. 
 Crabbe there. It boasts of its successive generations of 
 patrons and guests, but is soon to be destroyed.
 
 1701-1770.] ALEXANDER CBUDEN. 69 
 
 Crabbe, after Ms literary reputation had been established, was 
 staying for a few days at the old Huinmums ; but he was known 
 to the coffee-room and to the waiters merely as ' Mr. Rogers's 
 Crabbe.' One forenoon, when he had gone out, a gen- Table Talk - 
 tleman called on him, and while expressing his regret at not find- 
 ing him, happened to let drop the information that Mr. Crabbe 
 was the celebrated poet. The next time that Crabbe entered the 
 coffee-room he was perfectly astonished at the sensation which he 
 caused ; the company were all eagerness to look at him, the waiters 
 all officiousness to serve him. 
 
 ALEXANDER CEUDEN. 
 
 1701-1770. 
 
 settled in London in 1732, and opened a book- 
 ^^ stall under the Royal Exchange. Here he prepared 
 and published, in 1 737, his ' Concordance,' the financial re- 
 sults of which were so disastrous as to ruin him in business 
 and derange his mind. This Exchange, on the site of the 
 present building, was destroyed by fire in 1838, and no trace 
 of Cruden's shop remains. 
 
 Cruden was confined for a time in a private madhouse in 
 Bethnal Green, from which he escaped. 
 
 His subsequent London homes were somewhere in the 
 Savoy, in Upper Street, Islington, and later in Camden 
 Passage^ Islington Green. 
 
 After residing about a year at Aberdeen, he returned to Lon- 
 don and resumed his lodgings at Islington [in Cam- John Nel . 
 
 den Passage! where he died on the morning of Novem- son>s His - 
 
 tory of Is- 
 ber 1, 1770, in the sixty-ninth year of his age. When lington, 
 
 the person of the house went to inform him that his ' p ' '
 
 70 RICHARD CUMBERLAND [1732-1811. 
 
 breakfast was ready, he was found dead on his knees in the pos- 
 ture of prayer. He had complained for some days of an asthmatic 
 affection, one of the paroxysms of which probably terminated his 
 life. 
 
 Camden Passage, running fi-om Camden Street, Islington, 
 southerly, behind the High Street, and parallel with that 
 thoroughfare, was in 1885 a short narrow crooked lane be- 
 tween rows of one- and two-storied brick houses, dingy, and 
 some of them as old, probably, as Cruden's time ; but his 
 house, or the exact position of it, cannot now be discovered. 
 
 Cruden was buried in the ground of the Dissenters in 
 Deadman's Place, Southwark, which was described as being 
 'the second turning in Park Street on the left from the 
 Borough Market.' The cemetery is no longer in existence. 
 The Brewery of Barclay and Perkins occupies a portion of 
 its site. 
 
 RICHARD CUMBERLAND. 
 
 1732-1811. 
 
 CUMBERLAND entered Westminster School (see 
 ^ CHURCHILL, p. 50) in 1744, when he boarded in 
 ' Peters Street, two doors from the turning out of College 
 Street,' a vague address, as Peters Street and Great 
 College Street both run east and west. 
 
 Cumber- j remained in Westminster School, as well as I can 
 
 moirof Him- recollect, half a year in the shell, and one year in the 
 1 *' sixth form. . . . When only in my fourteenth year, 
 I was admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge. 
 
 At Westminster, with him, were the elder Colnian, Cowper, 
 Churchill, and Warren Hastings.
 
 ALLAN CUNNINGHAM. 71 
 
 In his twentieth year, upon becoming Secretary to Lord 
 Halifax, he found lodgings in Downing Street, and after- 
 wards in Mount Street, Berkeley Square. 
 
 In my lodgings in Mount Street, I had stocked myself with 
 my own books, some of my father's, and those which 
 
 Dr. Richard Bentley had bestowed upon me. I sought land's Me- 
 
 r, . ,. moirof 
 
 no company, nor wished tor any new connections. . . . Himself, 
 
 About this time I made my first small offering to the chap ' "' 
 press, following the steps of Gray with another ' Churchyard 
 Elegy,' written on St. Mark's Eve. 
 
 Cumberland, after his marriage, ' took a house for a short 
 time in Luke Street, Westminster, and afterwards in Abing- 
 don Buildings.' Abingdon Buildings ran from Abingdon 
 Street to the Thames, opposite Great College Street. It dis- 
 appeared on the erection of the new Houses of Parliament. 
 
 Later, Cumberland lived for many years in Queen Anne 
 Street, at the corner of Wimpole Street. Here he wrote 
 the ' West Indian,' and here, probably, he remained until 
 he removed to Tunbridge Wells, in 1781. 
 
 Cumberland was again in London during the last few years 
 of his life, and he died at the house of a friend in Bedford 
 Place, Russell Square. He was buried close to Shakspere's 
 statue, in the Poets' Corner. 
 
 ALLAN CUNNINGHAM. 
 
 1784-1842. 
 
 A LLAN CUNNINGHAM lived from 1824 until the time 
 ** of his death, eighteen years later, at No. 27 Lower 
 Belgrave Place, in a house \mchanged in 1885. but then 
 known as No. 98 Buckingham Palace Road. He was foreman
 
 72 MADAME D'ARBLAY. [1752-1840. 
 
 for tnany years in the studio of Chantrey, on the corner of 
 Lower Belgrave Place and Eccleston Street, still standing, 
 half a century later, as Chantrey left it, and called Chan- 
 trey House. 
 
 Cunningham was buried in the northwest corner of the 
 cemetery of Kensal Green. 
 
 Mrs. Thomson, in her 'Recollections of Literary Char- 
 acters,' thus describes her first interview with Cunningham 
 in Chantrey's studio : 
 
 Covered with a sort of apron or pinafore, such as good old- 
 fashioned cooks used to put on when cooking, a small chisel in 
 his hand, his face wearing a puzzled look, and emerging from 
 a half-finished monument, came forth Allan Cunningham. . . . 
 ' There are some pretty things here,' he remarked, in his broad 
 Scotch, the broadest Scotch, a Scotch never diluted by the 
 slightest approach to English, a Scotch just intelligible, and 
 that is all. 
 
 MADAME D'AKBLAY. 
 
 1752-1840. 
 
 T^ANNY BURNEY was brought to London by her par- 
 ents in 1 760 ; and when her mother died, during the 
 next year, she was at school near her father's house in Queen 
 Square, Bloomsbury, perhaps under the tuition of Churchill 
 (see CHURCHILL, p. 51). In 1774, when Dr. Burney was 
 organist to Chelsea Hospital she lived in the grounds be- 
 longing to that institution. 
 
 Portions of ' Evelina ' were written at No. 35 St. Martin's 
 Street, Leicester Square. 
 
 Numerous were the friends who frequented Dr. Burners 
 hospitable residence in Poland Street [Oxford Street], and also
 
 1752-1840.] MADAME D'ARBLAY. 73 
 
 that in Queen Square, which he afterwards occupied. The lat- 
 ter he subsequently exchanged for the house in St. Mrg 
 Martin's Street, which had once been the abode of Elwood's 
 Sir Isaac Newton, and where still remained, above Ladies of 
 the attic, his observatory [see NEWTON], which, with vo" 8 !^' 1 ' 
 due reverence, Dr. Burney caused to be repaired and ^ArMa . 
 preserved. 
 
 A letter of Miss Burney's, dated 1785, was written 'at 
 Mrs. Delaney's, in St. James's Place,' St. James's Street. 
 She became Madame D'Arblay in 1793; and after a long 
 residence on the Continent, and at Bath and elsewhere in 
 the provinces of England, she settled in London in 1818. 
 
 Thursday, October 18, 1818. I came this evening to my new 
 and probably last dwelling, No. 11 Bolton Street, Piccadilly. 
 My kind James conducted me. Oh, how heavy is my 
 forlorn heart ! I have made myself very busy all day ; D'Arbiay's 
 so only could I have supported this first opening to my 
 baleful desolation. No adored husband. No beloved son. But 
 the latter is only at Cambridge. Ah ! let me struggle to think 
 more of the other, the first, the chief, as only one removed from 
 my sight by a transitory journey. 
 
 Sir Walter Scott was taken by Rogers to call on Madame 
 D'Arblay in Bolton Street. 
 
 November 18. I have been introduced to Madame D'Arblay, 
 the celebrated authoress of 'Evelina' and 'Cecilia,' Seott , s 
 an elderly lady with no remains of personal beauty, Diary, 1826 : 
 but with a simple and gentle manner, and pleasing ex- Life of 
 pression of countenance, and apparently quiet feelings. 8< 
 
 Madame D'Arbiay's house was standing in 1885, the num- 
 bers in Bolton Street being unchanged. 
 
 Afterwards she went to the corner of Piccadilly and Half 
 Moon Street, on the east side of the latter thoroughfare; 
 but the house no longer remains. She died in Lower 
 Grosvenor Street, New Bond Street, in 1840.
 
 74 WILLIAM DAVENANT. [1605-1668. 
 
 WILLIAM DAVENANT. 
 
 1605-1668. 
 
 OF Davenant's private life in London little is known now, 
 except that the first Lady Davenant died in Castle 
 Yard (since called Castle Street), Holborn, a short street 
 opposite Furnival's Inn, the character of which has entirely 
 changed during the last two centuries, and that Davenant 
 himself died in apartments over or immediately adjoining 
 the Duke's Theatre, Portugal Eow, the site of which was 
 afterwards occupied by the College of Surgeons. The chief 
 entrance to the theatre, which ran back to the south side of 
 Lincoln's Inn Fields, was on Portugal Street, facing Carey 
 Street. 
 
 The Tennis Court in Little Liifcolnes Inne Fielde was turned 
 into a play house for the Duke of Yorke's players, where S r Wil- 
 
 . , . Ham had lodgings, and where he dyed April 166- 
 Aubrey s 
 Lives : [1668]. I was at his funerall ; he had a coffin of 
 
 walnutt-tree. Sir John Denham said 'twas the finest 
 coffin that ever he sawe. His body was carried in a hearse 
 from the play house to Westminster Abbey, where at the great 
 west dore he was received by the singing men and choris- 
 ters, who sang the service of the church to his grave, which is 
 in the south crosse aisle, on which, on a paving stone of mar- 
 ble is writt in imitation of y* on Ben Jonson, ' rare S r Wm. 
 Davenant.' 
 I up and down to the Duke of York's play house to see, which 
 
 I did, Sir W. Davenant's corpse carried out towards 
 Diary) vol. Westminster, there to be buried. Here were many 
 iee8 Apnl 9 ' coacnes > an( l many hacknies, that made it look, 
 
 methought, as if it were the buriall of a poor poet. 
 He seemed to have many children, by five or six in the first 
 mourning coach, all boys.
 
 1748-1789.] THOMAS DAY. 75 
 
 Davenant directed theatrical performances at Rutland 
 House, which stood at the upper end of Aldersgate Street, 
 near what has since been called Charter House Square ; and 
 at the Cock Pit Theatre, in Cock Pit Alley, afterwards called 
 Pitt Place, Drury Lane. This theatre was long since taken 
 down ; and the street upon which it stood, and which ran 
 from No. 20 Great Wild Street to No. 135 Drury Lane, 
 entirely disappeared on the erection of the Peabody Build- 
 ings for Workingmen. Davenant's name is also associated 
 with the Ked Bull Theatre in Red Bull Yard, Clerkenwell ; 
 no trace of which, or even of the street that contained it 
 now remains. Red Bull Yard is shown, by comparison with 
 old maps, to be the present (1885) Woodbridge Street, or 
 part of it ; and the theatre probably stood behind the arch- 
 way called Hayward's Place, St. John's Street, Clerkenwell, 
 opposite Compton Street. 
 
 One of Davenant's haunts was the Brew House in Axe 
 Yard, Westminster, afterwards Fluyder Street, on the west 
 side of King Street, between Charles and Downing Streets. 
 It is now covered by the public offices (see PEPYS). 
 
 THOMAS DAY. 
 
 1748-1789. 
 
 HPHE author of ' Sandford and Merton ' was born in 
 * Wellclose Square, Shadwell. As a child he lived at 
 Stoke Xewington, where he received the first rudiments of 
 his education. In 1757 he was sent to the Charter House 
 (see ADDISON, p. 1), where he remained seven years. He 
 was a "student of the Middle Temple ; but the greater part of 
 his life was spent at Anningsley Park, Addlestone, Surrey.
 
 76 DANIEL DE FOE. [1661-1731. 
 
 DANIEL DE FOE. 
 
 4 
 
 1661-1731. 
 
 DANIEL DE FOE, son of James Foe, a butcher, was 
 born in the parish of St. Giles, Cripplegate ; and at 
 the age of twelve was sent to the Dissenters' School, on the 
 north side of Newington Green, near the Dissenting Chapel, 
 where he remained four years, and received all the educa- 
 tion his father was willing, or able, to give him. One of 
 his schoolmates is said to have been named Crusoe. 
 
 In 1685 De Foe occupied a shop in Freeman's Court, 
 Cornhill, at the east end of the Koyal Exchange, a street 
 no longer in existence. Here he remained in trade as a 
 hosier and wool-dealer for teu years. He was afterwards 
 engaged in the manufacture of tiles and bricks on the 
 banks of the Thames at or near Tilbury, when he lived 
 close to his place of business, and spent much of his leisure 
 on the river. 
 
 In January, 1703, the House of Commons resolved that 
 a book of his should be burned by the Common Hangman 
 in Palace Yard, Westminster ; and the Secretary of State 
 issued the following interesting proclamation, still preserved 
 in the Records : 
 
 Whereas, Daniel De Foe, alias De Fooe, is charged with 
 writing a scandalous and seditious pamphlet entitled ' The Short- 
 est Way with the Dissenters.' He is a middle-sized spare man, 
 about forty years old, of a brown complexion, and dark brown 
 colored hair, but wears a wig ; a hooked nose, a sharp chin, gray 
 eyes, and a large mole near his mouth. 
 
 A reward of fifty pounds was offered for his discovery and 
 arrest.
 
 1661-1731.] DANIEL DE FOE. 77 
 
 On the 29th mst. [July, 1703] Daniel Foe, alias De Foe, 
 stood in the pillory before the Royal Exchange in London 
 Cornhill, as he did yesterday near the Conduit in f*^*j%' 
 Cheapside, and this day at Temple Bar. nos. 
 
 O^her missiles than were wont to greet a pillory reached 
 De Foe ; and shouts of a different temper. His health was 
 drunk with acclamations as he stood there, and noth- John Fors _ 
 ing harder than a flower was flung at him. ' The ter's Bio- 
 people were expected to treat me very ill,' he said, Essays : 
 ' but it was not so. On the contrary, they were with D 
 me, wished those who had set me there were placed in niy room, 
 and expressed their affection by loud shouts and acclamations 
 when I was taken down.' 
 
 ' The Great Conduit of sweet water ' was at the Poultry 
 end, the Little Conduit at the west end, of Cheapside. 
 Both stood in the middle of the street. 
 
 Shortly after his release from prison De Foe took his 
 family to Stoke Xewington. 
 
 His house is still standing [1845]. It is on the south side 
 of Church Street, a little to the east of Lordship's Forgter , s 
 Lane or Road, and has about four acres of ground Biographi- 
 
 , . . , , , .. , , . , cal Essays : 
 
 attached, bounded on the west by a narrow footway DeFoe. 
 (once, if not still) called ' Cut-throat Lane.' 
 
 'Robinson Crusoe/ published in 1719, is said to have 
 been written in this house, which was destroyed in 1875, 
 when De Foe Street was cut through its grounds. 
 
 Sophia De Foe was baptized, and Daniel De Foe, an 
 infant, was buried, in Hackney Church. Both were children 
 of Daniel De Foe. Old Hackney Church was taken down 
 in 1806, and only the tower left standing. 
 
 De Foe died on the 24th of April, 1731, in the parish in 
 which he was born, that of St. Giles, Cripplegate. Forster 
 says : 
 
 The precise place of De Foe's death was in Rope Makers' Alley, 
 Moorfields. Of this fact there can be no reasonable doubt, it
 
 78 THOMAS DE QUINCE Y. [1786-1859. 
 
 being so stated in the ' Daily Courant ' of the day following his 
 death. Rope Makers' Alley no longer exists, but it stood opposite 
 to where the London Institution now stands. 
 
 The London Institution, built in 1816, stood in 1885 at 
 N"os. 11 and 12 Finsbury Circus. Rope Makers' Alley, as 
 shown on an old map of that portion of London contained 
 in Noorthhouck's ' History of London,' and published in 
 1772, ran from Finsbury Pavement to Grub Street, now 
 Milton Street, and seems to be identical with the Rope 
 Makers' Street of the present. Its character has greatly 
 changed during the last hundred and fifty years. 
 
 De Foe was buried in the neighboring cemetery of Bunhill 
 Fields; where stood, in 1885, a granite obelisk with an in- 
 scription stating that it was erected in 1870 'By the Boys 
 and Girls of England to the Memory of the Author of 
 Robinson Crusoe.' 
 
 THOMAS DE QUINCEY. 
 
 1786-1859. 
 
 TT was late in November, 1802, when De Quincey, having 
 * run away from school, first arrived in London. He 
 found miserable lodgings in Greek Street at the corner ot 
 Soho Square, and for some time lived the life of a vagrant 
 in the streets and in the parks. 
 
 He bought his first dose of opium in 1804 at a chemist's 
 shop in Oxford Street near the Pantheon, which was num- 
 bered 173 Oxford Street in 1885. 
 
 In 1808 and later, he lodged in Titchfield Street, Dean 
 Street, Soho, and in Northumberland Street, Marylebone. 
 About the same time he entered himself as a student in 
 the Middle Temple.
 
 1812-1870.] CHARLES DICKENS. 79 
 
 The 'Confessions of an Opium Eater' were written in 
 a little back-room at No. 4 York Street, Covent Garden, 
 on the premises of Mr. Bohii, the book dealer and publisher, 
 where De Quincey lived a comparatively secluded life for 
 some time, seeing much, however, of Hood, Hogarth, and the 
 Lambs. Mr. Bohn retired from business some years ago ; 
 but his house in York Street, occupied in 1885 by a publish- 
 ing-firm, was quite unchanged. 
 
 CHAELES DICKENS. 
 
 1812-1870. 
 
 "DORN at Portsea, Dickens was brought to London as 
 *-*' a child, loved London as only London, it seems, can 
 be loved, spent the greater part of his busy life in London, 
 and rests now among London's cherished dead. 
 
 In Forster's biography we can follow Dickens from street 
 to street in the metropolis, until we leave him in the Poets' 
 Corner, on the banks of that Thames he knew so well. 
 At the age of ten he was lodging in Bayham Street, Cam- 
 den Town. ' A washerwoman lived next door, and a Bow 
 Street officer lived over the way.' The life and the sur- 
 roundings there were miserable enough. 
 
 The family then moved to No. 4 North Gower Street 
 (now simply Gower Street), on the east side, a few doors 
 from Francis Street, and between that thoroughfare and 
 University Street. It has been renumbered. A large brass 
 plate on the door told to the world that this was ' Mrs. 
 Dickens's Establishment.' Here they remained until the 
 elder Dickens was carried, like Mr. Dorrit, to the Marshal-
 
 80 CHARLES DICKENS. [1812-1870. 
 
 sea. The prisoner was lodged 'in the top story but one,' 
 in chambers afterwards occupied by the Dorrits, and Charles 
 for a time ran daily to visit him from Gower Street, across 
 the town and the river. 
 
 That certain portions of the Marshalsea are still standing 
 is not generally known. Indeed, the fact was not known to 
 Dickens himself when he began ' Little Dorrit ; ' but in the 
 Preface to that story he gives this account of a visit to it : 
 
 I found the outer front court-yard metamorphosed into a but- 
 ter shop ; and I then almost gave up every brick of the jail for 
 lost. Wandering, however [from the Borough High Street, a few 
 doors from the Church of St. George], down a certain adjacent 
 ' Angel Court leading to Bermondsey,' I came to ' Marshalsea 
 Place ; ' . . . and whosoever goes here will find his feet on the 
 very paving-stones of the extinct Marshalsea jail, will see its 
 narrow yard to the right and to the left, very little altered, 
 if at all, except that the walls were lowered when the place got 
 free, will look upon the rooms in which the debtors lived, 
 and will stand among the crowded ghosts of many miserable 
 years. 
 
 The place still remained in 1 885 as Dickens has described 
 it : 7 and the associations of David Copperfield with the mel- 
 ancholy spot are those of the young Charles Dickens, who 
 knew it as well as David knew it, and in much the same 
 way. 
 
 Dr. B. E. Martin, in his admirable paper ' In London 
 with Dickens' ('Scribner's Magazine,' March, 1881), tells 
 how little is left of the early homes and haunts of the great 
 novelist. 
 
 The blacking- warehouse at Old Hungerford Stairs, Strand, op- 
 posite Old Hungerford Market, in which he tied up the pots of 
 blacking, has long since been torn down. That ' crazy old house 
 with a wharf of its own, abutting on the water when the tide was 
 in, and on the mud when the tide was out, and literally overrun 
 with rats,' is now replaced by a row of stone buildings ; the
 
 1812-1870.] CHARLES DICKENS. 81 
 
 embankment has risen over the mud, and the vast Charing Cross 
 Station stands opposite, on the site of the Old Hungerford Market, 
 and of ' The Swan, or Swan and something else,' the miserable 
 old public where he used to get his bread and cheese and < r lass of 
 beer. The very name of the street is gone, and Villiers Street 
 has sponged out the memory of Hungerford Stairs. . . . Indeed, 
 it is no longer possible to find any of the places he mentions in 
 his narrative to Forster. . . . Bayhani Street, where he lived, is 
 entirely rebuilt. 
 
 During the residence of the elder Dickens in the Mar- 
 shalsea his sou found lodgings in a back attic in Lant Street 
 Borough, where he afterwards placed Bob Sawyer. ' It 's 
 near Guy's, and handy for me, you know. Little distance 
 after you 've passed St. George's Church, turns out of the 
 High Street on the right-hand side the way.' Mr. Sawyer 
 does not give the number in asking Mr. Pickwick and ' the 
 other chaps ' to the famous party ; but Lant Street un- 
 doubtedly still stands as Mr. Pickwick found it, and as the 
 young Dickens knew it in 1822-24. 
 
 It is a-by-street, and its dulness is soothing. A house in Lant 
 Street would not come within the denomination of a first-rate 
 residence, in the strict acceptance of the term, bat it is Pickwick, 
 a most desirable spot, nevertheless. If a man wished cha P - xxx> 
 to abstract himself from the world, to remove himself from 
 within the reach of temptation, to place himself beyond the 
 possibility of any inducement to look out of the window, he 
 should by all means go to Lant Street. 
 
 It was during this period that Dickens ordered the 'glass 
 of Genuine Stunning Ale,' and excited the sympathy and 
 won the motherly kiss of the publican's wife, so pathetically 
 told in ' Copperfield.' In a private letter, late in life, he 
 declares this to have been an actual experience, and that 
 the public house was the Red Lion, still standing in 1885 
 on the northeast corner of Derby and Parliament Streets, 
 
 Westminster. 
 
 6
 
 82 CHARLES DICKENS. [1812-1S7U. 
 
 Of the many lodging-house homes of the Dickeuses there 
 is no particular reason to speak here. Little that is inter- 
 esting is associated with them. The original Mrs. Pipchin 
 was his landlady in Little College Street, Cainden Town, now 
 College Street, between Jeffreys Street and King's Road ; 
 and the original of the Marchioness waited on the family 
 while they were in the Marshalsea. 
 
 Dickens's first school of any importance was described by 
 one of his schoolfellows in 1871, as still standing on the 
 corner of Granby Street and the Hampstead Road, in its 
 original state, although the school playground in the rear 
 was destroyed on the formation of the London and North- 
 western Railway. It figures in one of his papers entitled 
 1 Our School,' and its masters suggested Mr. Creakle and 
 Mr. Mell of Salem House. In 1885 it remained compara- 
 tively unchanged. 
 
 Dickens was living in Furnival's Inn, Holborn, when 
 ' Pickwick ' was conceived and written ; here was spent 
 the first year or two of his married life, and here, in 1837, 
 his eldest son was born. John Westlock, it will be remem- 
 bered, lived in Furnival's Inn. 
 
 His rooms were the perfection of neatness and convenience, 
 Chuzziewit, at anv rate ; and if he were anything but comfortable, 
 chap. xiv. tjjg fault was certainly not theirs. 
 
 Perhaps Dickens thought of his own young married life, 
 when he painted sweet Ruth Pinch looking out upon the 
 twilight into the shady quiet place, while her brother was 
 absorbed in music, and her brother's friend stood silently 
 but eloquently by her side. 
 
 In March, 1837, Dickens took his little family to No. 48 
 Doughty Street, Mecklenburgh Square, a house still 
 standing in 1885, where he remained three years, and 
 wrote 'Oliver Twist' and 'Nicholas Nickleby.' 
 
 Doughty Street runs from Mecklenburgh Square to John
 
 1812-1870.] CHAKLES DICKENS. 83 
 
 Street, a quiet retired little street, cut off, at the John Street 
 end, by iron gates, which are only opened for carts and 
 carriages that have business in the street itself. The prop- 
 erty belongs to the notorious Tichborne Estate, and by 
 them is sacredly held as No Thoroughfare to the general 
 public. 
 
 Late in the year 1839 Dickens removed to No. 1 Devon- 
 shire Terrace, Regent's Park. ' A house of great promise 
 (and great premium), undeniable situation and excessive 
 splendor, is in view.' Here he lived, while in London, until 
 1851, during which time he wrote, in the order named, 
 'The Curiosity Shop,' ' Barnaby Rudge,' 'American Notes,' 
 ' Martin Chuzzlewit,' ' Christmas Carol,' ' The Chimes,' 
 The Cricket on the Hearth,' ' Dombey and Son,' ' The 
 Battle of Life,' ' The Haunted Man,' and ' David Copper- 
 field.' A drawing of the Devonshire Terrace House, by 
 Maclise, is reproduced in the third volume of Forster's 
 * Life of Dickens.' It was here that he lost by death, 
 in 1841, the raven who figures in 'Barnaby Rudge' as 
 'Grip,' and whose last hours he so beautifully described 
 in the letter now preserved in the Forster Collection at 
 South Kensington. 
 
 Towards eleven o'clock he was so much worse that it was 
 found necessary to muffle the stable knocker. ... On the clock 
 striking twelve he appeared slightly agitated ; but he soon re- 
 covered, walked twice or thrice along the coach-house, stopped to 
 bark, staggered, exclaimed, ' Helloa, old girl ! ; (his favorite 
 expression), and died. Kate is as well as can be expected, but 
 terribly low, as you may suppose. The children seem rather glad 
 of it. He bit their ankles ; but that was play. 
 
 Devonshire Terrace consists of three houses at the north 
 end of High Street, Marylebone. No. 1, in 1885, was a 
 large brick mansion, with a garden, on the corner of Maryle- 
 bone Road.
 
 84 CHARLES DICKERS. 11812-1870. 
 
 Dickens moved to Tavistock House, Tavistock Square, in 
 October, 1851. 
 
 In Tavistock Square stands Tavistock House. This and the 
 strip of garden in front of it are shut out from the thoroughfare 
 by an iron railing. A large garden with a grass plat 
 Christian and high trees stretches behind the house, and gives it a 
 sen " countrified look in the midst of this coal and gas steam- 
 ing London. In the passage from street to garden hung pictures 
 and engravings. Here stood a marble bust of Dickens, so like 
 him, so youthful and handsome ; and over a bedroom door and a 
 cliuiug-room door were inserted the bas-reliefs of Night and Day, 
 after Thorwaldsen. On the first floor was a rich library with a 
 fireplace and a writing-table, looking out on the garden ; and here 
 it was that in winter Dickens and his friends acted plays to the 
 satisfaction of all parties. The kitchen was underground, and at 
 the top of the house were the bedrooms. I had a snug room 
 looking out on the garden ; and over the tree-tops I saw the 
 London, towers aiujpepires appear or disappear as the weather 
 cleared or thickened. 
 
 In Tavistock House Dickens wrote portions of ' Bleak 
 House,' 'Hard Times,' 'Little Dorrit,' and the 'Tale of 
 Two Cities.' It was still standing in 1885, and occupied 
 as a Jewish College. In 1860 Dickens removed to Gad's 
 Hill ; and he never afterwards had a permanent home in 
 London, except the Chambers at Xo. 26 Wellington Street, 
 corner of York Street, Strand, over the office of 'All the 
 Year Round.' 
 
 Dickens's intimacy with his biographer naturally led him 
 often to Forster's house, No. 58 Lincoln's Inn Fields, which, 
 as Dr. Martin has shown us, was Tulkinghorn's house as 
 well. 
 
 Here in a large house, formerly a house of State, lives Mr. 
 Tulkinghorn. It is let off in sets of chambers now ; 
 H^se, and in those shrunken fragments of its greatness law- 
 chap, x. yers lie ^ j- ke ma gg 0ts m nu t s . But its roomy staircases,
 
 1812-1870.] CHARLES DICKENS. 85 
 
 passages, and ante-chambers still remain ; and even its painted 
 ceiling, where Allegory in Roman helmet and Celestial linen 
 sprawls among balustrades and pillars, flowers, clouds and big- 
 legcred boys, and makes the head ache, as would seem to be Alle- 
 
 OO w ' 
 
 gory's object always, more or less. 
 
 This house was standing in 1885, little changed except 
 that Allegory had been whitewashed out of sight by later 
 tenants. It was in this house that on the 2d December, 
 1844, Dickens read 'The Chimes' to that brilliant com- 
 pany of his friends, as described by Mr. Forster. 
 
 An occasion rather memorable, in which was the germ of 
 those readings to larger audiences, by which, as much Forster's 
 as by his books, the world knew him in his later life, ^fe |j| D j? k " 
 but of which no detail beyond the fact remains in chap. vii. 
 my memory ; and all are dead now who were present at it, ex- 
 cepting only Mr. Carlyle and myself. Among those, however, 
 who have thus passed away, was one, our excellent Maclise, who, 
 anticipating the advice of Captain Cuttle, had ' made a note ' of it in 
 pencil, which I am able here to reproduce. It will tell the reader 
 all he could wish to know. He will see of whom the party con- 
 sisted, and may be assured that in the grave attention of Carlyle, 
 the eager interest of Stanfield and Maclise, the keen look of poor 
 Laman Blanchard, Fox's rapt solemnity, Jerrold's skyward gaze, 
 and the tears of Harness and Dyce, the characteristic points of 
 the scene are sufficiently rendered. 
 
 The original of this drawing is in the Forster Collection in 
 the Museum of South Kensington ; and, as Dr. Martin says, 
 
 In the left-hand corner of the room (as sketched by Maclise) 
 you shall see the very frescos weird figures with wav- .. , 
 ing arms and pointing fingers which Dickens placed Magazine, 
 
 -!u t v "Li a A m n i. > -T March, 1881. 
 
 with such ghostly etiect on Itukinghorns ceiling. 
 
 The last home of Dickens in London was the house of 
 Milner-Gibson, No. 5 Hyde Park Place, which he occupied 
 for a few mouths. Writing herefrom to James T. Fields, 
 January 14, 1870, he says :
 
 86 BEXJAMIX DISRAELI. [1804-1881. 
 
 We live opposite the Marble Arch, in a charming house until 
 Fields'* Yes- the 1st of June, and then return to Gad's Hill. . . . 
 Authors* 1 * 1 ' I nave a l ai 'g e room here with three fine windows 
 Dickens. overlooking the Park, unsurpassable for airiness and 
 cheerfulness. 
 
 Several numbers of ' Edwin Drood ' were written in this 
 house, which was unaltered in 1885. 
 
 Dickens died, June 9, 1870, at Gad's Hill, and was buried, 
 June 14, in the Poets' Corner, "Westminster Abbey. 
 
 Close under the bust of Thackeray lies Charles Dickens, not, 
 it may be, his equal in humor, but more than his equal in his 
 Dean Stan- hold on * ne popular mind, as was shown in the intense 
 ley's West- and general enthusiasm shown at his grave. The 
 Abbey. funeral, according to Dickens's urgent and express 
 desire in his will, was strictly private. It took place at an 
 early hour in the sunirner morning, the grave having been dug 
 in secret the night before ; and the vast solitary space of the 
 Abbey was occupied only by the small band of mourners, and the 
 Abbey Clergy, who, without any music except the occasional peal 
 of the organ, read the funeral service. For days the spot was 
 visited by thousands ; many were the flowers strewn upon it by 
 unknown hands ; many were the tears shed by the poorer visitors. 
 He rests beside Sheridan, Garrick, and Henderson. 
 
 BENJAMIN DISRAELI 
 
 1804-1881. 
 
 HP HE registry of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish Syna- 
 gogue, No. 10 Bevis Marks, proves the younger Dis- 
 raeli to have been born December 21, 1804, although the 
 residence of his father at that time is not given, and it is 
 very difficult to determine now the place of his birth. It was, 
 according to the various biographers, at Hackney, Islington,
 
 1804-1881.] BENJAMIN DISRAELI. 87 
 
 St. Mary Axe, and Bloomsbury Square, and it is even said 
 that Lord Beaconsfield himself once told a friend that he 
 was born in a library in the Adelphi. It would seem, how- 
 ever, that Islington has the strongest claim to the distinc- 
 tion ; and Dr. John B. JeaiFreson, in a letter to the London 
 ' Standard,' in 1881, says that the D'Israelis were living in 
 1803 behind Cauonbury Tower (see GOLDSMITH), that while 
 this house was undergoing repairs they lived for a twelve- 
 month next door to Dr. Jeaffreson (grandfather of this writer), 
 in Trinity Row, and that Benjamin Disraeli was unexpectedly 
 born there, Dr. Jeaffreson being the medical attendant. 
 
 Dr. B. E. Martin, who has in many ways shown his in- 
 terest in this work, and who has been of the greatest assist- 
 ance in its production, has learned by personal inquiry that 
 the members of the Jeaffreson family who were contempo- 
 raries of Benjamin Disraeli, and who were his playmates in 
 infancy, always believed him to have been the child born in 
 Trinity Row while his father was their immediate neighbor, 
 although there is no absolute proof that such was the case. 
 The name of D'Israeli does not appear in the London direc- 
 tories of 1804. 
 
 This Trinity Row house, still standing in 1885, but known 
 as No. 215 Upper Street, Islington, and occupied on its lower 
 floor by shops, is remembered as having been ' a well look- 
 ing dwelling' in the early part of this century, its front 
 windows commanding a view of Canonbury Fields, and its 
 back windows overlooking its own moderately extensive 
 grounds. 
 
 Benjamin Disraeli was baptized in the Church of St. An- 
 drew, Holborn, July 13, 1817, and in the registry there is 
 described as ' From King's Road, and said to be about 
 twelve years of age.' The elder D'Israeli is known to have 
 occupied, at that time, the house in King's Road, next to the 
 corner of John Street, and left unchanged in 1885 except
 
 88 BENJAMIN DISRAELI. [1804-1881. 
 
 that it was then known as No. 22 Theobald's Road. King's 
 Road ran from Gray's Inn Road to Bedford Row, north of 
 Gray's Inn Gardens. Dr. Martin discovered from the rate- 
 books that Isaac D'Israeli paid rates from 1817 to 1829 on 
 the house on the corner of Hart Street and Bloomsbury 
 Square, numbered then 6 Bloomsbury Square, but since 
 changed to No. 5. The house now No. 6 Bloomsbury 
 Square, and generally supposed to have been the home of 
 the D'Israelis, was then No. 6 A or 6. All this is proved 
 by the records of the Bedford Estate, in which Bloomsbury 
 Square lies, as well as by statements of residents of the 
 house for many years. Benjamin, therefore, was at least 
 twelve years of age when his father went to Bloomsbury 
 Square ; and the following account of his ' visit to the room 
 in which he was born ' must be considered in the light of 
 romance. The house was left unaltered in 1885. 
 
 Montagu Corry (Lord Rowton) told me that not long ago 
 Lord Beaconsfield visited the house [in Bloomsbury Square] and 
 s c Hail's ^ked leave to go over it, which was granted, although 
 Retrospect the attendant had no idea that the courtesy was ex- 
 Life : Bea- tended to the Prime Minister. He sat for some time 
 eld ' pondering and reflecting a grand past and a great 
 future opening before his mental vision in the room in which 
 he was born. Once I met the two, great father and greater son, 
 at one of the receptions of Lady Blessington. It is certain that 
 from the first to the last no parent ever received more grateful 
 respect or more enduring affection from a child ; and I well re- 
 member that on the evening to which I refer, the devotion of 
 Benjamin Disraeli to Isaac D'Israeli, specially noticed by all 
 who were present, was classed among the admirable traits of the 
 after Prime Minister. 
 
 A writer in ' Punch ' shortly after the death of Lord Bea- 
 consfield says that he went to a dame's school in Colebrook 
 Row, Islington, kept by a Miss Palmer ; and he is known to 
 have been a pupil of an academy since called Essex Hall
 
 1766-1848.] ISAAC D'ISRAELL 89 
 
 on Higham Hill, Walthamstow, Essex, six miles from town, 
 where his desk and room were carefully preserved many 
 years later. When a very young man, Disraeli spent a year 
 or two as a clerk in a solicitor's office in the City, some- 
 where in the neighborhood of the Old Jewry ; but his home 
 was generally in his father's family, in town or in Bucking- 
 hamshire, until his marriage with Mrs. Lewis in 1839, when 
 he took possession of her house, No. 1 Grosvenor Gate, 
 corner of Park Lane and Upper Grosvenor Street. Here 
 he lived until her death in 1872. This house was still 
 standing in 1885. 
 
 In 1873 Disraeli moved to No. 2 Whitehall Gardens; and 
 in 1881 he died at No. 19 Curzon Street, Mayfair, facing 
 South Audley Street. 
 
 ISAAC D'ISRAELL 
 
 1766-1848. 
 
 E only home of Isaac D'Israeli's youth was his father's 
 house at Enfield, where he was born, and where he 
 remained until his marriage. The site of this house is 
 unknown to the local historians ; but Ford, in his ' Enfield,' 
 believes it to have been on the ground since occupied by 
 the terminus of the Great Eastern Railway. 
 
 As a young man D'Israeli came now and then to London 
 to read the newspapers in the St. James's Coffee House in 
 St. James's Street (see ADDISON, p. 7) ; and he spent many 
 hours in the Reading Room of the British Museum. In 
 the ' Memoirs of the Elder D'Israeli by his Son ' the follow- 
 ing story is told : 
 
 My father, who had lost the timidity of his childhood, who 
 by nature was very impulsive, and indeed endowed with a degree
 
 90 MICHAEL DRAYTOS. [1563-1631. 
 
 of volubility which is only witnessed in the south of France, and 
 which never deserted him to his last hour, was no longer to be 
 controlled. His conduct was decisive. He enclosed his poem 
 to Dr. Johnson with an impassioned statement of his case, com- 
 plaining, which he ever did, that he had never found a counsellor 
 or literary friend. He left his packet himself at Bolt Court [see 
 JOHNSON], where he was received by Mr. Francis Barber, the doc- 
 tor's well-known black servant, and told to call in a week. Be 
 sure that he was very punctual ; but the packet was returned 
 to him unopened, with a message that the illustrious doctor was 
 too ill to read anything. The unhappy and obscure aspirant 
 who received this disheartening message accepted it, in his utter 
 despondency, as a mechanical excuse. But, alas ! the cause was 
 too true ; and a few weeks after the great soul of Johnson quitted 
 earth. 
 
 The various homes of the elder D'Israeli are described in 
 the preceding paper (see the younger DISRAELI, pp. 86-89). 
 
 In Bloomsbury Square he wrote ' The Curiosities of 
 Literature,' and kindred works, and remained until he took 
 his family in 1825 to Bradenham House, Buckinghamshire, 
 where he died in 1848. A letter of his was written to the 
 Countess of Blessington, but without date, from Xo. 1 St. 
 James's Place, St. James's Street; and in 1835 both father 
 and son were at No. 31 A, Park Street, Grosvenor Square, 
 near the corner of King Street, and next door to the White 
 Bear public house. This street has been renumbered. 
 
 MICHAEL DKAYTON. 
 
 1563-1631. 
 
 T T is not now known when or under what circumstances 
 * Drayton first saw London; and nothing is to be gathered 
 concerning his career here from the occasional personal
 
 1631-1700.] JOHN DRYDEN. 91 
 
 allusions scattered throxighout his poems. According to 
 Aubrey he ' lived at ye bay-windowe house next the east 
 end of St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet Street.' This house, 
 numbered 186 Fleet Street, was standing in 1885, altered 
 and restored ; but its next-door neighbor city-wards still 
 showed what was its appearance when Drayton . occupied it, 
 and published in 1608 an edition of his 'Poems' 'at the 
 Shop of John Smithwick, St. Dunstan's Church Yard under 
 the Diall.' This churchyard, facing Fleet Street, was the 
 Paternoster Row of that day, and much frequented by book- 
 sellers. 
 
 Drayton was buried in Westminster Abbey, according to 
 Fuller 'in the south aisle near to Chaucer's grave and 
 Spenser's, where his monument stands ; ' but Dean Stanley 
 believes that he lies near the small north door of the nave. 
 Mr. Marshall, the stonecutter in Fetter Lane, told Aubrey 
 that the lines on his 'pious marble were writ by Francis 
 Quarles, a very good man.' They declare that his name 
 cannot fade ; and yet when Goldsmith read them, a century 
 later, he confessed that he had never heard the name 
 before. 
 
 JOHN DEYDEN. 
 1631-1700. 
 
 was a pupil of Dr. Busby at Westminster 
 School (see CHURCHILL, p. 51), where is still carefully 
 preserved the old form upon which, in long sprawling school- 
 boyish letters, is the name I DRYDEN, carved by his own 
 hands. He distinguished himself there as a juvenile poet, 
 and won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge.
 
 92 JOHN DRYDEN. [1631-1700. 
 
 According to Malone, he returned to London in 1657, 
 when Scott believes that he lodged with Herringman the 
 bookseller, in the then New Exchange, destroyed in 1737. 
 Scott also throws doubt upon the stories of Dryden's dining 
 at a ' threepenny ordinary ' and being ' clad in homely drug- 
 get,' as asserted by Shadwell and others. His circumstances 
 were certainly better than his earlier biographers would 
 have us believe, when he married the daughter of the Earl 
 of Berkshire a few years later. 
 
 The date of Dryden's marriage eluded inquiries of Malone 
 and Scott. He was married by license in the Church of 
 N , St. Swithin, by London Stone (as appears by the 
 
 Peter Gun- register of that Church), on the 1st December, 1663. 
 Johnson's The entry of the license, which is dated ' ultimo No- 
 the vernbis,' 1663, and is in the office of the Vicar-General 
 
 Dryden. O f j^g Archbishop of Canterbury, describes him as a 
 parishioner of St. Clement Danes of about the age of thirty, and 
 the Lady Elizabeth [Howard] as twenty-five and of the parish 
 of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. The poet's signature to the entry 
 is written ' Driden.' 
 
 Scott gives the date of this marriage as 1665. The 
 Church of St. Swithin, Cannon Street, was destroyed in 
 the Great Fire of 1666, but rebuilt by Wren. 
 
 Peter Cunningham, with his usual care, in his ' Explana- 
 tory Notes to Johnson's Lives of the Poets,' traces Dry- 
 den to his different London homes, and shows that ' he 
 lived from 1673 to 1682 in the Parish of St. Bride's, Fleet 
 Street, on the water side of the street, in or near Salisbury 
 Court (Rate Booke of St. Bride's, Fleet Street) ; and from 
 1682 to 1686 in a house on the north side of Long Acre 
 facing Rose Street.' 
 
 The Dryden Press, founded a century and a half ago, 
 stood in 1885 at No. 137 Long Acre, and marked the site 
 of Dryden's house there. 
 
 There is a tradition that Dryden lived once in Fetter
 
 1631-1700.J JOHN DBYDEN. 93 
 
 Lane, where Otway was his neighbor ; but the only authority 
 for this is a mythical story of a combat of wit between him 
 and Otway (see OTWAY), and the existence, as late as 1885, 
 of a curious old tablet upon the quaint little house at No. 
 16 Fetter Lane, over Fleur-de-lys Court. 8 No record of his 
 occupancy of this house is to be found in any of the biogra- 
 phies of Dryden, nor, it is said, in the parish books. By 
 whom and when the stone was placed there is not now 
 known. Its inscription reads : 
 
 Here liv'd 
 John Dryden 
 
 Ye poet, 
 
 Born 1631 Died 1700 
 Glorious John ! 
 
 Dryden removed to his last London home, Gerard Street, 
 Soho, in 1686. 
 
 Dryden's house was the fifth on the left hand coming 
 
 from Little Newport Street. The back windows 
 looked upon the gardens of Leicester House, of which Dryden, 
 circumstance our poet availed himself to pay a hand- 
 some compliment to the noble owner. 
 
 This house, No. 43 Gerard Street, has been marked by 
 the tablet of the Society of Arts, The gardens in its rear 
 have long since disappeared 
 
 One day, Mr. Rogers took Mi. Moore and my father [Sidney 
 Smith] home in his carriage, and insisted on showing them by the 
 way Dryden's house, in some obscure street. It was 
 very wet ; the house looked much like other old land's Me- 
 houses, and having thin shoes on they both remon- Rev r 
 strated, but in vain. Rogers got out, and stood ex- Smith, 
 
 chap. ix. 
 pecting them. ' Ah, you see why Rogers don't mind 
 
 getting out,' exclaimed my father, laughing and leaning out ol 
 the carriage ; ' he has got goloshes on but, Rogers, lend us each 
 a golosh, and we wil! then stano oil oue leg and admire as long 
 as you please.
 
 94 JOHN DBYDEX. [1631-1700. 
 
 Dryden died at No. 43 Gerard Street, May 1, 1700. 
 
 His family were preparing to bury him with the decency be- 
 coming their limited circumstances, when Charles Montague, Lord 
 Jeffries, and other men of quality made a subscription 
 Dryden, for a public funeral. The body of the poet was then 
 removed to the Physicians' Hall [now destroyed ; it 
 stood on the west side of Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row], where 
 it was embalmed, and lay in state till the 13th day of May, twelve 
 days after his decease. On that day the celebrated Dr. Garth pro- 
 nounced a Latin oration over the remains of his departed friend, 
 which were then with considerable state, preceded by a band of 
 music and attended by a numerous procession of carriages, trans- 
 ported to Westminster Abbey, and deposited between the graves 
 of Chaucer and Cowley. 
 
 Johnson, in his ' Lives of the Poets,' quotes from a ' Life 
 of Congreve,' printed in 1730, which on the titlepage is said 
 to contain 'some very curious Memories of Mr. Dryden and 
 His Family,' a remarkable account of Dryden's funeral and 
 of a practical joke played by Lord Jeffries upon the mourn- 
 ing friends, which appears to have no foundation in fact, 
 although it has been often repeated. From this statement 
 it would seem that Dr. Garth 
 
 finished his oration with a superior grace, to the loud acclama- 
 tions of mirth which inspired the mixed, or rather mob, auditors. 
 The procession began to move ; a numerous train of coaches at- 
 tended the hearse, but, good God ! in what disorder can only be 
 expressed by a sixpenny pamphlet soon after published, entitled 
 ' Dryden's Funeral.' At last the corpse arrived at the Abbey, 
 which was all unlighted. No organ played ; no anthem sung ; 
 only two of the singing boys preceded the corpse, who sung an 
 Ode of Horace, with each a small candle in his hand. The butch- 
 ers and other mob broke in like a deluge, so that only about 
 eight or ten gentlemen could get admission, and those forced 
 to cut their way with their swords drawn. The coffin in this 
 disorder was let down into Chaucer's grave, with as much confu- 
 sion and as little ceremony as was possible, every one glad to save 
 themselves from the gentlemen's swords or the clubs of the mob.
 
 1631-1700.] JOHN DRYDEN. 95 
 
 Dryden was a freqxienter of Will's Coffee House in Bow 
 Street (see ADDISON, p. 7), where, after his two-o'clock din- 
 ner, he was in the habit of going and occupying his estab- 
 lished chair, his right to which no man was bold enough to 
 dispute. It was placed by the window in summer, by the 
 fire in winter ; and from it he pronounced his opinions of men 
 and books, surrounded by his crowd of admiring listeners, 
 who pretended to agree with him, whether they did or not. 
 
 Dryden's mixture of simplicity, good-nature, and good opinion 
 of himself is here seen in a A'ery agreeable manner. It must not 
 be omitted that it was to this house [Will's] Pope was Hunt>s The 
 taken when a boy, by his own desire, on purpose to get Town. 
 a sight of the great man, which he did. According to 
 Pope, he was plump, with a fresh color, and a down look, and not 
 very conversible. It appears, however, that what he did say was 
 much to the purpose ; and a contemporary mentions his conver- 
 sation on that account as one of the few things for which the town 
 was desirable. He was a temperate man, though he drank with 
 Addison a great deal more than he used to do, probably so far as 
 to hasten his end. 
 
 In Covent Garden to-night, going to fetch home my wife, I 
 stopped at the great Coffee House there [Will's], where I never was 
 before, where were Dryden, the poet, I knew at Cam- 
 bridge, and all the Wits of the town, and Harris the mary, y 
 player [Joseph Harris], and Mr. Hoole of our College, 
 And had I had time then or could at other times, it 
 will be good coming thither, for there, I perceive, is very witty 
 and pleasant discourse. *But I could not tarry, and as it was late, 
 they were all ready to go away. 
 
 One of the most uncomfortable of Dryden's London expe- 
 riences was the severe beating he received one night in 1679 
 in Rose Street, Covent Garden, after he had left Will's. 
 Although a reward of fifty pounds was offered for ' the per- 
 petrators of the outrage,' they were never legally punished. 
 , There seems to be no question, however, that Rochester
 
 96 TOM D'URFEY. [16- -1723. 
 
 instigated the deed, enraged by a satire which he attributed 
 to Drydeii, but which was written by another man. Rose 
 Street, running from No. 11 Long Acre to No. 2 Garrick 
 Street at its junction with King Street, has been greatly 
 changed since Dryden's adventures there, although one or 
 two old buildings still standing in the crooked, miserable 
 little street in 1885 were no doubt witnesses ,of the memo- 
 rable assault. A modern tavern bearing the old-fashioned 
 name of The Lamb and Flag was built about 1880 in Rose 
 Street, facing Garrick Street. 
 
 Dryden was fond of the mulberry tarts that were in his 
 day a specialty of the Mulberry Gardens, upon the site of 
 which Buckingham Palace was built. 
 
 TOM D'UKFEY. 
 16 1723. 
 
 OF Tom D'Urfey's career in London or elsewhere almost 
 nothing is known except what is contained in No. 67 
 of the 'Guardian' (Thursday, May 28, 1713), when Mr. 
 Addison, under a text from Horace, ' Blush not to patronize 
 the Muse's skill,' makes a plea for help for D'Urfey in his 
 impoverished old age, on the ground .that he had ' enriched 
 our language with a multitude of rhymes, and bringing 
 words together, that without his good offices would never 
 have been acquainted with one another, so long as it had 
 been a tongue ; ' and adds that his old friend ' angles for 
 a trout the best of any man in England : ' surely reason 
 enough for his meriting the charity of his fellow-men. 
 From this paper it would seem that he was a most agreeable 
 companion ; that Charles II. had been seen leaning on his
 
 1819-1880.] MARY ANN EVANS (GEORGE ELIOT). 97 
 
 shoulder more than once, humming over a song with him ; 
 and that many an honest country gentleman had gained a 
 reputation in his own county by pretending to have been in 
 company with Tom D'Urfey in town. After having written 
 more odes than Horace, and about four times as many com- 
 edies as Terence, he was, when Addison found him in 1713, 
 in great difficulties. He lived, however, ten years longer, 
 and continued to write until his death, in 1723. The time 
 of his birth is unknown. He was buried in St. James's 
 Church, Piccadilly, where is a tablet to his memory, said 
 to have been erected by Sir Richard Steele. It contains 
 simply his name and the date of his death, and is on the 
 south wall of the church, on the outside, under the clock 
 tower and nearly opposite the little door leading from 
 Jermyn Street to the disused graveyard. Like so many 
 objects of interest in London, it is entirely concealed from 
 the public by an unsightly and unnecessary high brick 
 wall. 
 
 D'Urfey is said to have found the suggestions for his 
 ' Pills to Purge Melancholy ' at a convivial meeting held at 
 the Queen's Arms Tavern, Newgate Street. This inn was 
 standing until within a few years at No. 70 Newgate Street. 
 It had an entrance on St. Martin' s-le-Grand. The New Post- 
 Office buildings were erected on its site. 
 
 MARY ANN EVANS (GEORGE ELTOT). 
 
 1819-1880. 
 
 EORGE ELIOT ' came to London in 1851, and for 
 two years made her home with the Chapmans at No. 
 142 Strand, near Wellington Street, a house rich in the 
 
 7
 
 98 MARY ANN EVANS (GEORGE ELIOT). [1819-1880. 
 
 literary associations of t\vo centuries. A tourist's ticket- 
 office in 1885, it was, in the days of Dr. Johnson, the fa- 
 mous Turk's Head Coffee House, frequented by so many 
 distinguished men (see DR. JOHNSON). 
 
 While living here, Miss Evans wrote a number of essays 
 for the ' Westminster Review,' besides doing editorial work ; 
 and here she first made the acquaintance of George Henry 
 Lewes and many of the literary lights of her time. 
 
 Lewes and Miss Evans lived for a while at No. 16 Bland- 
 ford Square, where she wrote, among other books, ' liomola ' 
 and ' Felix Holt,' in a quiet old-fashioned house not far from 
 Regent's Park, and still standing in 1885, hardly changed 
 since her occupation of it. The Priory, No. 21 North 
 Bank, St. John's Wood, to which they removed in 1865, and 
 where they remained until Lewes died, in 1878, was some- 
 what altered by a later tenant, who enlarged and beauti- 
 fied it. It was in 1885 one of the characteristic villas of 
 that characteristic locality, plain, substantial, and in grounds 
 of its own, shut out completely from the gaze of the 
 passer-by. 
 
 Here, in the pleasant dwelling-rooms decorated by Owen 
 
 Jones, might be met, at her Sunday afternoon receptions, some 
 
 of the most eminent men in literature, art, and science. 
 
 Blind** 6 F r tne rest lier life flowed on its even tenor, its 
 
 F e mou Eli t: rou * me being rigidly regular. The morning till lunch 
 
 Women time was invariably devoted to writing ; in the after- 
 Series 
 
 noon she either went out for a quiet drive of about two 
 
 hours, or she took a walk with Lewes in Regent's Park. There 
 the strange-looking couple she with a certain sibylline air, he 
 not unlike some unkempt Polish refugee of vivacious manners 
 might be seen swinging their arms, as they hurried along at a pace 
 as rapid as their talk. 
 
 George Willis Cooke, in his ' George Eliot ' (chap. v. 
 p. 79), thus describes ' The Priory ' :
 
 1819-1880.] MARY ANN EVANS (GEORGE ELIOT). 99 
 
 Within, all was refinement and good taste ; there were flowers 
 in the windows, the furniture was plain and substantial, while 
 great simplicity reigned supreme. The house had two stories and 
 a basement. On the first floor were two drawing-rooms, a small 
 reception room, a dining-room, and Mr. Lewes's study. . . . The 
 second floor contained the study of George Eliot, which was a 
 plain room, not large. Its two front windows looked into the 
 garden, and there were bookcases around the walls, and a writing- 
 desk. All things about the house indicated simple tastes, mod- 
 erate needs, and a plain method of life. 
 
 ' George Eliot ' was married f to John Walter Cross at St. 
 George's Church, Hanover Square, May 6, 1880, but died 
 in her husband's house, No. 4 Cheyne Row, Chelsea, De- 
 cember 22 of the same year, and was buried in Highgate 
 Cemetery. 
 
 The grave, in the new portion of the cemetery overlooking 
 London, is covered by a plain gray granite shaft bearing the 
 following simple inscription : 
 
 ' Of those immortal dead who still live on 
 in miiids made better by their presence. 
 Here Lies The Body 
 
 of 
 
 ' George Eliot ' 
 
 Mary Ann Cross. 
 
 Born 22nd November, 1819 
 
 Diad 22nd December, 1880.
 
 100 JOHN EVELYN. [1620-1706. 
 
 JOHN EVELYN. 
 
 1620-1706. 
 
 TTTVELYN'S earliest recorded associations with London 
 *-* are of the Middle Temple. 
 
 I repaired with my brother to the Tearme to goe into the 
 new lodgings (that were forn^fe^ in Essex Court), being a very 
 Evelyn's handsome apartment just over against the Hall Court, 
 Diary, 1640. jjut f our p a yre of stayres bigh, w'ch gave us the ad- 
 vantage of the fairer prospect. 
 
 Evelyn was married in 1647 ; and an entry in his Diary, 
 the next year, shows him to have been then a resident of 
 Sayes Court, Deptford, which came to him through his wife, 
 and was his home for almost half a century. 
 
 Oct. 7, 1665. Then to Mr. Evelyn's . . . and here he showed 
 me his gardens, which are, for variety of evergreens and hedged 
 holly, the finest tilings I ever saw in my life. . . . 
 
 Nov. 5, 1665. By water to Deptford, and there made a visit 
 to Mr. Evelyn, who, among other things, showed me some excel- 
 Pepys's l ent paintings in little, in distemper, in Indian incke, 
 Diary, 1665. wa ter colours, graeving, and, above all, the whole 
 secret of mezzo- tints, and the manner of it, which is very pretty, 
 and good things done with it. ... In fine, a most excellent per- 
 son he is, and must be allowed a little for a little conceitedness ; 
 but he may well be so, being a man so much above others. 
 
 Sayes Court was near the Government Docks at Deptford. 
 It was taken down, according to Lysons, in 1728 or 1729, 
 and the Workhouse built upon its site. This poor-house, 
 looking much older than its actual age, and believed by 
 many of the residents in Deptford to have been the original 
 house occupied by Evelyn and by Peter the Great, was still
 
 1620-1706.] JOHN EVELYN. 101 
 
 standing in 1885, at the end of the modern Czar Street, 
 Evelyn Street, and was the home of poor old men and wo- 
 men, subjects of the private charity of W. J. Evelyn, Esq., 
 the proprietor of the estate. A small patch of ground used 
 as the garden of this house was all that was left, in any- 
 thing like their natural state, of Evelyn's famous plantations, 
 while a larger portion had been transformed into a public 
 recreation ground, reached from Evelyn Street by Sayes 
 Court Street. Evelyn's hedges, orangeries, and groves had 
 all disappeared. 
 
 Evelyn, through his Diary, is easily traced to his various 
 abiding-places in town. 
 
 Sept. 10, 1658. I came with my wife and family to London; 
 tooke lodgings at the 3 Feathers in Russell Street, Covent Garden, 
 for all the winter, my sonne being very unwell. 
 
 No trace of the sign of the Three Feathers is to be found 
 to-day. 
 
 March 24, 1662. I returned home with my whole family, 
 which had been most part of the winter since October at London 
 in lodgings, neere the Abbey of Westminster. 
 
 Nov. 17, 1683. I took a house in Villiers Street [Strand], 
 York Buildings, for the winter, having many important concerns 
 to despatch, and for the education of my daughters. 
 
 In 1686 he ' came to lodge at Whitehall in the Lord Privy 
 Seales Loddgings.' He spent the winter of 1690 in Soho 
 Square, then King's Square. 
 
 July 19, 1699. Am now removing my family to a more con- 
 venient house here, in Dover Street, where I have the remainder 
 of a lease. 
 
 Peter Cunningham, consulting the rate books of St. Mar- 
 tin's, discovers this house in Dover Street, Piccadilly, to have 
 been about ' nine doors up, on the east side.' 
 
 Evelyn, in 1654, described the Mulberry Gardens in St. 
 James's Park, on the site of which stands the northern
 
 102 MICHAEL FARADAY. [1791-1867. 
 
 portion of Buckingham Palace (see DRYDEX, p. 96), as ' ye 
 only place of refreshment in ye towne for persons of ye best 
 quality to be exceedingly cheated at.' The large number of 
 places of refreshment in London to-day where persons of the 
 best quality may be cheated at, is perhaps one of the most 
 significant signs of the progress of civilization. 
 
 Evelyn also records his dining (Nov. 30, 1694) at Pon- 
 tack's, in Abchurch Lane, with the Royal Society. No trace 
 of Pontack's is now left. 
 
 MICHAEL FAEADAY. 
 
 1791-1867. 
 
 C*ABADAY was born at Newington, but was taken as a 
 child to Jacob's Wells Mews, Charles Street, Manchester 
 Square, in 1796, where his family lived for some years. 
 Charles Street, Manchester Square, is not to be confounded 
 with Charles Street, Portman Square, its near neighbor. It 
 was that part of the present George Street running from 
 Spanish Place to Thayer Street ; and Jacob's "Wells Mews, 
 little changed in appearance since that time, was still so 
 called in 1885, and on the south side of George Street. 
 From 1804 to 1812 the young Faraday was apprenticed to 
 a bookseller, at No. 2 Blandford Street, Portman Square, 
 where the same business was carried on seventy years later. 
 The house was raised one story in the summer of 1884. It 
 is marked by the tablet of the Society of Arts. 
 
 In 1813 Faraday was assigned apartments at the Royal 
 Institution, No. 21 Albemarle Street, Piccadilly, still in the 
 same place in 1 885 ; and here he lived for nearly fifty years. 
 After his retirement in 1858, he went to a house on Hampton
 
 1678-1707.] GEOEGE FARQUHAR. 103 
 
 Court Green, where, nine years later, he died. He was 
 buried in Highgate Cemetery ; a plain stone against the 
 east wall, about the centre of the old part of the cemetery, 
 marking his grave. 
 
 He was an original member of the Athenseum Club. 
 
 GEOEGE FAEQUHAK. 
 
 1678-1707. 
 
 T^ARQUHAR settled in London in 1696, when he began 
 -*- his career as a writer for the stage. His first play, 
 'Love in a Bottle,' was produced at Drury Lane in 1698. 
 
 About 1700 Farquhar first met Mrs. Oldfield, as de- 
 scribed by Dr. Doran in his ' Annals of the Stage ' (vol. i. 
 chap. xiv.). 
 
 The time is the close of the seventeenth century ; the scene is 
 the Mitre Tavern, St. James's Market, kept by one Mrs. Voss. . . . 
 On the threshold of the open door stand a couple of guests. . . . 
 The one is a gay, rollicking young fellow, smartly dressed, a semi- 
 military look about him, good-humor rippling on his face, combined 
 with an air of astonishment and delight. His sight and hearing 
 are wholly concentrated on that enchanted and enchanting girl 
 who, unmindful of aught but the ' Scornful Lady,' continues still 
 reading aloud that rattling comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher. 
 . . . Captain Farquhar, at whatever passage in the play, betrayed 
 his presence by his involuntary applause. The girl looks towards 
 him more pleased than abashed ; and when the Captain pronounced 
 that there was stuff in her for an exquisite actress, the nattered 
 thing clasped her hands, glowed at the prophecy, and protested 
 in her turn, that of all conditions it was the one she wished most 
 ardently to fulfil.
 
 104 HENEY FIELDING. [1707-1754. 
 
 St. James's Market, considerably reduced in size and 
 importance, still exists between Jermyn Street, Charles 
 Street, the present Regent Street, and the Haymarket; 
 but the Mitre Tavern there is not mentioned by Stow, 
 Strype, or in ' The Xew View of London' (1708), it does not 
 appear on any of the old maps, and no trace of it "is now 
 to be found. 
 
 Farquhar, suffering in body, and on his death-bed, wrote 
 his ' Beau's Stratagem ' in six weeks, and lived only to hear 
 $>f its brilliant success. He died in April, 1707, only a short 
 time after its triumphant production at the Haymarket, and 
 was buried in the Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. 
 
 The following touching letter to his friend Wilkes was 
 his valedictory : 
 Gibber's DEAR BOB, I have not anything to leave to per- 
 
 Livesofthe 
 
 Poets : petuate my memory but two helpless girls. Look upon 
 arqu ' them sometimes, and think of him who was to the last 
 moment of his life thine, G. FARQUHAR. 
 
 HENEY FIELDING. 
 
 1707-1754. 
 
 T^IELDING was little more than twenty years of age 
 when he first settled in London, and began his literary 
 career as a writer for the stage. In February, 1735, he 
 was living in Buckingham Street, Strand. In 1737 he 
 became a student of the Middle Temple, and was called 
 to the Bar three years later, when ' chambers were assigned 
 to him in Pump Court.' 
 
 Sir Roger cle Coverley, walking in the Temple Garden and 
 discoursing with Mr. Spectator about the beauties in hoops and
 
 1707-1754.] HEXRY FIELDING. 105 
 
 patches who are sauntering over the grass, is just as lively a 
 figure to me, aa old Samuel Johnson rolling through the fog 
 with the Scotch gentleman at his heels, on their way 
 to Dr. Goldsmith's in Brick Court ; or Harry Fielding, book ii. 
 with inked ruffles, and a wet towel round his head, c ap ' V1U ' 
 dashing off articles for the Covent Garden Journal, while the 
 printer's boy is asleep in the passage. 
 
 It is an established fact that the 'Covent Garden Jour- 
 nal ' had no existence until long after Fielding left the 
 Temple ; but Fielding might have dashed off ' copy ' for 
 some other publication at that period, as Thackeray, never 
 very accurate about dates and details, describes; and the 
 picture drawn of him with the wet towel, and the printer's 
 devil snoring on the stairs, is too good to be destroyed. 
 
 It has now been ascertained that the marriage [Fielding's 
 second marriage] took place at St. Beliefs, Paul's Wharf, an 
 obscure little church in the City, at present surren- 
 dered to a Welsh congregation, but at that time . . . Dobson's 
 much in request for unions of a private character. ^ ldll |^' 
 The date in the register is the 27th November, 1747. 
 . . . Either previously to this occasion or immediately after it, 
 Fielding seems to have taken two rooms in a house in Back Lane, 
 Twickenham, not far from the site of Copt Hall. In 1872 this 
 house was still standing, a quaint old-fashioned wooden struc- 
 ture. . . . Now [1883] it no longer exists, and a row of cottages 
 occupies the site. 
 
 St. Benet's still remained in 1885 on Upper Thames 
 Street, corner of Rennet's Hill. 
 
 Mr. Dobson shows that Fielding must have entered upon 
 his office of Justice of the Peace early in December, 1748, 
 a document bearing date December 9 of that year 
 describing him as 'Henry Fielding, Esq., of Bow Street, 
 Covent Garden.' He then occupied the house upon the 
 site of which the police station has been built. Cunningham 
 and other writers assert that 'Tom Jones' was written in
 
 106 HENRY FIELDING. [1707-1754. 
 
 Bow Street ; but as it was published in February, 1 749, 
 only a month or two after his taking up his residence there, 
 this can hardly be true. In Bow Street was Fielding's town 
 home until he went to Lisbon, in 1754, to die. He spent 
 the summer months in a cottage at Fordhook. 
 
 Henry Fielding, the Cervantes of England, resided occa- 
 sionally, during the last mournful year of his life, at Fordhook, 
 situated on the Uxbridge Road, at the distance of 
 
 Thomas 
 
 Faulkner's about a mile from the village of Acton, at the eastern 
 Eaiing^and extremity of Baling. Fielding, whose pen had been 
 eha SW iv k> *k e source of so much heartfelt mirth, was now op- 
 pressed by a complication of disorders, which threw 
 a cloud over his fancy, and would have subjugated the whole 
 powers of a mind less vivacious and elastic. 
 
 Wednesday, July 26, 1754. On this day the most melan- 
 choly sun I ever beheld arose, and found me awake at my home 
 at Fordhook. ... At twelve precisely my coach was 
 journaf of a t the door, which I was no sooner told than I kissed 
 Lisbon 8 i754. mv children all around, and went into it with some 
 little resolution. My wife, who behaved more like a 
 heroine and philosopher, though at the same time the tenderest 
 mother in the world, and my eldest daughter, followed me ; 
 some friends with us, and others here took their leave, and I 
 heard my behavior applauded, with many murmurs and praises, 
 to which I well knew I had no title, as all other such philosophers 
 may, if they have any modesty, confess on a like occasion. 
 
 Thorne, in his 'Hand-Book,' says that Fielding at one 
 time occupied an old house on Barnes Common, known as 
 Milbourne House; and there is a tradition that he lived 
 for a short period in Beaufort Buildings, opposite Exeter 
 Street, Strand. 
 
 He was a frequent visitor at the Bedford Coffee House, 
 under the Piazza, Covent Garden (see CHURCHILL, p. 51).
 
 1576-1625.] JOHN FLETCHER. 107 
 
 JOHN FLETCHER. 
 
 1576-1625. 
 
 nPHE place of Fletcher's birth is not known to us, and 
 *" almost nothing of his personal history in or out of 
 London, except that he lived in the closest intimacy "with 
 Beaumont on the Bankside (see BEAUMONT), and that he 
 was buried in the Church of St. Mary Overy (St. Saviour's), 
 Southwark, at the end of London Bridge, one of the most 
 ancient and interesting of London churches, although but 
 little of the original building is now left. 
 
 Oldwit. I knew Fletcher, my friend Fletcher, and his maid 
 Joan ; I shall never forget him ; I have supped with shadweli's 
 him at his house on the Bankside ; he loved a fat loin ^7 Fair - 
 of pork of all things in the world ; and Joan, his maid, scene i. 
 had her beer-glass of sack, and we all kissed her ; faith, and were 
 as merry as passed. 
 
 In the great plague 1625, a knight of Norfolk or Suffolk in- 
 vited him [Fletcher] into the country. He stayed but to make 
 himselfe a suit of cloathes, and while it was makeing, Aubrey's 
 fell sick of the plague and dyed. This I had from Lives - 
 his tayler who is now a very old man, and clarke of St. Mary 
 Overy's. 
 
 In this church [St. Mary Overy's] was interred, without any 
 memorial, that eminent Dramatick Poet, Mr. John Fletcher, son 
 to Bishop Fletcher of London, who dyed of the Plague, Aubrey's 
 the 19th of August, 1625. When I searched the Regis- &%% of 
 ter of this Parish in 1670 for his obit for the use of Mr. voL v - 
 Anthony a Wood, the Parish Clerk, aged above eighty, told me 
 that he was his Tayler, and that Mr. Fletcher staying for a suit 
 of cloaths before he retired into the country, Death stopped his 
 journey and laid him low here.
 
 108 JOHN FOX. [1517-1587. 
 
 A few years ago Fletcher's name arid the date of his death 
 were engraved upon a stone in the pavement of the choir of 
 St. Saviour's, although the exact spot where his bones lie 
 is not recorded. 
 
 JOHN FOX. 
 
 1517-1587. 
 
 T^OX'S ' History of the Acts and Monuments of the 
 * Church,' more familiarly known as the ' Book of the 
 Martyrs,' was published in 1553, the last year of the reign 
 of Edward VI., and was written, it is said, while Fox was 
 living in the famous Grub Street. Grub Street, in the parish 
 of St. Giles, Cripplegate, was composed of mean low houses, 
 old even in the sixteenth century, tenanted by compilers of 
 pamphlets, penny and halfpenny papers, and ' criticks run to 
 seed,' and gave its name, from the nature of its inhabitants, 
 to a class of writing which was neither exalted nor pure. 
 It lies between Fore Street and Chiswell Street, and has 
 now been called Milton Street, in honor of the author, who 
 emphatically had no connection or association with the orig- 
 inal Grub Street or its literature. Its old houses have 
 entirely disappeared. 
 
 After the accession of Mary, Fox left England, and did not 
 return until the beginning of Elizabeth's reign. In 1565 he 
 was an inmate of the household of his patron, the Duke of 
 Norfolk, whose town mansion was then the Charter House, 
 at the head of Aldersgate Street, which, taken from the 
 Church by Henry VIII., did not become a school until 1611, 
 when James was king (see ADDISON). 
 
 Fox preached at Paul's Cross, and is said to have held for 
 a short time the living of St. Giles, Cripplegate, where he
 
 1740-1818.] SIR PHILIP FRANCIS. 109 
 
 was buried in 1587. A mural tablet with a Latin inscription 
 was erected to his memory in the church, and is still to be 
 seen there. St. Giles's, one of the few remaining city 
 churches which escaped the Great Fire of 1666, was built 
 in 1545. 
 
 Paul's Cross stood on the north side of St. Paul's Church- 
 yard, a few yards east of Canon Alley. The congregation 
 worshipped in the open air. 
 
 SIR PHILIP FEANCIS. 
 
 1740-1818. 
 
 in 1753, was sent to Paul's School, in St. 
 Paul's Churchyard, on the east side of the Cathedral 
 (see MILTON). 
 
 Much of his youth was spent out of England, but in 1761 
 he was appointed private secretary to William Pitt, Earl of 
 Chatham ; and Lady Francis thus describes his duties and 
 position at that time : 
 
 His manner of attending there was to come early in the morn- 
 ing to Lord C.'s house in St. James's Square, where he was shown 
 into a library, and found his breakfast and the work of 
 the day ; and I have heard him say that he was so of Francis, 
 happy in having command of the books unmolested 
 (for sometimes he had long intervals of leisure when his pen was 
 not required), that he probably, from these agreeable remem- 
 brances, retained all his life a partiality for St. James's Square, 
 in which, as soon as his circumstances permitted him, he bought 
 a house. 
 
 Francis lived subsequently in Harley Street, Cavendish 
 Square; and from 1791 until the time of his death at No. 
 14 St. James's Square, in a house taken down some years
 
 110 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. [1706-1790. 
 
 ago. The East India Service Club was erected on its site. 
 In 1791 he wrote : 
 
 I have removed into a very convenient house in St. James's 
 
 Square, where I believe I am at anchor for life. The 
 Parkes' Life .... i i ,, , 
 
 of Francis, name of the situation sounds well, but you would be 
 
 much mistaken in concluding that I live in a palace. 
 
 He was a member, among other clubs, of Brooks's, No. 60 
 St. James's Street ; but he withdrew on the publication of 
 Taylor's 'The Identity of Junius,' which brought his name 
 conspicuously before the club, and gave him a notoriety 
 very distressing to him. 
 
 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. 
 
 1706-1790. 
 
 "C*RANKLIN, at different periods of his life, spent a 
 * number of years in London. In his ' Autobiography ' 
 he thus relates his earliest experiences here, on his arrival 
 in 1724: 
 
 Ralph [James Ralph] and I were inseparable companions. 
 We took lodgings together at Little Britain, at three shillings 
 and sixpence a week, which was all we could afford. ... I 
 then got into work at Palmer's, then a famous printing-house 
 in Bartholomew Close, and here I continued near a year. . . . 
 I now began to think of getting a little money beforehand, and, 
 expecting better work, I left Palmer's to work at "Watt's near 
 Lincoln's Inn Fields, a still greater printing-house. Here I con- 
 tinued all the rest of my stay in London. . . . My lodgings in 
 Little Britain being too remote, I found another in Duke Street, 
 opposite the Romish ChapeL It was two pair of stairs back- 
 wards, at an Italian warehouse.
 
 i 
 
 1706-1790.] BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. Ill 
 
 Little Britain a hundred and fifty years ago was a centre 
 of the bookselling and printing trade. No trace is left of 
 Palmer's in Bartholomew Close ; but Watt's printing-house 
 stood on the south side of Wild Court, a short street run- 
 ning from Great Wild Street, Drury Lane, to Sardinia 
 Place. The greater part of the south side of this court 
 had been taken down in 1885 ; but the opposite side, towards 
 Great Queen Street, was still unchanged, a row of wretched 
 buildings, tenanted by the most miserable of the London 
 poor. 
 
 Franklin's lodging-house in Duke Street, ' opposite the 
 Romish Chapel,' was probably No. 6 Sardinia St., an an- 
 cient house facing the Sardinia Catholic Chapel in 1885. 
 
 In 1757 Franklin was again in London, as the agent of the 
 American Colonies, to confer with the home Government. 
 
 At the invitation of his friend Collinson, he went in the first 
 instance to the house of that gentleman, where he was hospitably 
 entertained till he could procure suitable permanent Hoiie 
 lodgings ; such lodgings he shortly after found at of Franklin, 
 the house of Mrs. Stevenson, No. 7 Craven Street chap ' x 
 [Strand] ; and they proved so convenient, comfortable, and 
 every way pleasant, that he made his home there during all his 
 long subsequent residence in London, embracing, in the two 
 missions on which he was sent thither, about fifteen years. 
 That house, says Dr. Sparks, is noted to this day, in the London 
 guide-books, as the house in which Franklin resided. 
 
 Franklin's Craven Street house has been rebuilt. It 
 bears a tablet of the Society of Arts. He was in London 
 from 1757 to 1762, and again in 1764, when he remained 
 in Craven Street for ten years. 
 
 Sparks has printed a number of Franklin's letters dated 
 from Kensington; and no doubt written in an old house 
 standing in 1885, but doomed to destruction in the grounds 
 of the South Kensington Museum. It is a dingy two-storied
 
 112 JOHN GAY. [1688-1782. 
 
 brick building, some distance back from Cromwell Road, and 
 facing it at its junction with Thurloe Place. It is barely 
 visible from the thoroughfare, and is also marked by the 
 Society of Arts. 
 
 Franklin was among the distinguished visitors at Don 
 Saltero's Museum and Coffee House, No. 18 Cheyne Walk, 
 Chelsea (see SMOLLETT), and relates in his 'Autobiography/ 
 with considerable pride, his long swim from Chelsea to 
 Blackfriars. 
 
 JOHN GAY. 
 
 1688-1732. 
 
 /"""* AY was but a lad when he began life in London, as a 
 ^"* silk-mercer's apprentice, in the Strand ; and settled 
 home of his own he never seems to have had here. He was 
 an inmate of the house of the Duchess of Monmouth ; he 
 had lodgings at one time at Whitehall ; he lived for a time 
 in retirement at Hampstead ; and he finally became a 
 member of the family of the Duke of Queensbury, either 
 at Amesbury, Petersham, or in Queensbury House, which 
 stood on the north side of Burlington Gardens, between 
 Savile Row and Old Burlington Street. It was taken down 
 at the end of the last century, when Uxbridge House, 
 occupied in 1885 by the Western Branch of the Bank of 
 England, was built upon its site. Gay died here in 1732. 
 
 His body was brought by the Company of Upholders from the 
 Dean Stan- Duke of Queensbury's to Exeter Change, and thence 
 minster 68 *" * tne Abbey, at eight o'clock in the winter's evening 
 Abbey, chap. [December 23]. Lord Chesterfield and Pope were 
 288. ' ' present among the mourners. He had already, two 
 months before his death, desired : ' My dear Mr. Pope, whom I
 
 1737-1794.] EDWAKD GIBBON. 113 
 
 love as my own soul : if you survive me, as you certainly will, 
 if a stone shall mark the place of my grave, see these words put 
 upon it : 
 
 " Life is a jest and all things show it : 
 I thought so once, and now I know it," 
 
 with what else you may think proper.' His wish was complied 
 with. 
 
 Exeter Change stood on the north side of the Strand, 
 between Wellington Street and Burleigh Street, and on the 
 site of the Lyceum Theatre. It was taken down in 1829. 
 
 Gay was a member of the Scriblerus Club, which met at 
 various taverns at the West End of London ; and a frequenter 
 of Will's (see ADDISOX, p. 7). The Rose Tavern, a favorite re- 
 sort of Gay's, stood on the east side of Brydges Street, next 
 to Drury Lane Theatre, and was taken down to make room 
 for the extension of the theatre by Garrick in 1775 or 1776. 
 
 EDWAKD GIBBON. 
 
 1737-1794. 
 
 IBBON was born at Lime Grove, at the base of Putney 
 Hill, in a house no longer standing. He was baptized 
 in the parish church of Putney, St. Mary's, which was rebuilt 
 in 1836 ; and his early youth was spent in that then sub- 
 urban town. In 1746 he was sent to the Free Grammar 
 School, London Street, Kingston-on-Thames, where he re- 
 mained two years. 
 
 By the common methods of discipline, the expense of many 
 
 tears, and some blood, I purchased the knowledge _ 
 
 ' Gibbon's 
 of the Latin syntax ; and not long since I was pos- Memoir of 
 
 sessed of the dirty volumes of Phaedrus and Corne- 
 lius Nepos, which I painfully construed and darkly understood. 
 
 8
 
 114 EDWARD GIBBON. [1737-1794. 
 
 In 1749 Gibbon entered Westminster School (see CHURCH- 
 ILL, p. 51), but his delicate health forced him to leave 
 town after a short term there. During his school days 
 and later, his London home was with an aunt who kept a 
 boarding-house for Westminster boys in College Street, and 
 afterwards in Dean's Yard. 
 
 Gibbon was sent to Oxford in 1752, and after his residence 
 there spent five years in Switzerland before he returned 
 permanently to London. 
 
 Gibbon, when young and fresh from. Lausanne, saw little to en- 
 joy in London, where he found ' crowds without company, and 
 Wheatley's dissipation without pleasure.' In 1760 he lodged in 
 
 Bound this street FBond Street!, and studied in the midst of 
 
 about L -" 
 
 Piccadilly, the fashionable world around him. He says, 'While 
 
 coaches were rattling through Bond Street, I have 
 passed many solitary evenings in my lodgings with my books.' 
 
 Gibbon lived for a time in Pall Mall, but in 1 772 he took 
 the house No. 7 Bentinck Street, Manchester Square, where 
 some of the happiest years of his life were spent, and where 
 were written the first volumes of ' The Decline and Fall of 
 the Roman Empire.' 
 
 Gibbon's ]? or ni y own part, my late journey has only con- 
 
 ence, 1783. vinced me that No. 7 Bentinck Street is the best house 
 in the world. 
 
 Bentinck is a short, quiet street, running from Welbeck 
 Street to Marylebone Lane. No. 7 has been renewed, and 
 is almost the only house in the street that has undergone 
 any change during the last century. 
 
 Gibbon died in 1794 at No. 76 St. James's Street, on the 
 south corner of Little St. James's Street, in the house of 
 Elmsley the publisher, who some years before had de- 
 clined to take the risk of the printing of the history. 
 Elmsley's house was taken down upon the erection of the 
 Conservative Club.
 
 1712-1785.] RICHARD GLOVER. 115 
 
 Gibbon was a member of a number of fashionable clubs, 
 including The Club (see JOHNSON); Boodle's, No. 28 St. 
 James's Street ; Brooks's, No. 60 St. James's Street ; 
 White's, Nos. 36 and 37 St. James's Street (see GIBBER, p. 
 54) ; and the Cocoa Tree Club, No. 64 St. James's Street 
 (see ADDISON, p. 7). 
 
 I dined at the Cocoa Tree with Holt. We went thence to 
 the play (' The Spanish Friar '), and when it was over returned 
 to the Cocoa Tree. That respectable body, of which 
 I have the honor of being a member, affords every Diary, 
 evening a sight truly English. Twenty or thirty per- J^'. 24> 
 haps of the finest men in the kingdom, in point of 
 fashion and fortune, supping at little tables covered with a 
 napkin, in the middle of a coffee-room, upon a bit of cold meat or 
 a sandwich, and drinking a glass of punch. At present [1762] we 
 are full of King's counsellors and lords of the bed-chamber. 
 
 RICHARD GLOVER 
 
 1712-1785. 
 
 ' T EONIDAS ' GLOVER was a Hamburg merchant on 
 r^ Poultney Hill (Cannon Street), but no trace of the 
 site of his warehouse remains. He lived at No. 11 James 
 Street, York Street, Buckingham Gate, and at No. 9 Bennet 
 Street, on the northwest corner of St. James's Street ; and 
 he died in Albemarle Street, Piccadilly, in 1785. James 
 Street has been lengthened, rebuilt, and renumbered since 
 that time, and the site of Glover's house cannot positively 
 be determined. It was opposite that portion of St. James's 
 Park which has since been transformed into the Parade 
 Ground of Wellington Barracks.
 
 116 WILLIAM GODWIN. [1756-1836. 
 
 WILLIAM GODWIN. 
 
 1756-1836. 
 
 (~~* OD WIN'S earliest lodgings in London were ' near the 
 ^--* new church in the Strand ' (St. Mary-le-Strand), where 
 he remained for a year, 1783-84, and where he published 
 his first book. He occupied over a dozen different lodging- 
 houses, always in the neighborhood of the Strand, between 
 1784 and 1792. Shortly after this he wrote : 
 
 William In the beginning of the year 1793 I removed to a 
 
 Friends'and small house in Chalton Street [Euston Road], Somers 
 rariee, vqU Town, which I possess entirely to myself, with no 
 chap. iv. other attendance than the daily resort of a bed-maker 
 for about an hour each day. ... In this year also t wrote the 
 principal part of the novel of ' Caleb Williams.' 
 
 Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft were married hi Old 
 St. Paucras Church, March 29, 1797, Godwin making no 
 note of the fact in his diary. A few weeks later he wrote 
 to a friend from No. 7 Eversham Buildings, Somers Town ; 
 and here, in September of the same year, Mary Wollstonecraft 
 died. 
 
 Eversham Buildings was that part of the present Chalton 
 Street which lies between Chapel Street (then Chapel Path) 
 and Phoenix Street. It leads to the Polygon, where in 1800 
 and afterwards Godwin was living, and where he was wooed 
 and won by his second wife. 
 
 The Polygon in 1885 was a block of plain, unassuming 
 middle-class houses, irregular in shape, as its name implies, 
 and occupying the centre of Clarendon Square. 
 
 In 1807 the Godwins removed to No. 41 Skinner Street, 
 Holborn, which was on the south side of St. Sepulchre's
 
 1756-1836.] WILLIAM GODWIN. 117 
 
 Church, Snow Hill. It connected Holborn with Newgate 
 Street, and was entirely removed on the construction of 
 the Holborn viaduct (see BUNYAN, p. 26). 
 
 I remember him when he kept a bookseller's shop on Snow 
 Hill. He kept it under the name of Edward Baldwin ; had it 
 been canned on in his own name, he would have had s c H u , 
 few customers, for his published opinion had excited Retrospect 
 general hostility, to say the least. I was a schoolboy Lift : OI1 
 then, and can remember purchasing a book there, 
 handed to me by himself. It was a poor shop, poorly furnished ; 
 its contents consisting chiefly of children's books with the old 
 colored prints, that would contrast so strangely with the art 
 illustrations of to-day. 
 
 After his business failure in 1823 he was at No. 195 
 Strand, near Arundel Street, and opposite St. Clement's 
 Church, and in Gower Place, Euston Square, working hard 
 at his books, and seeing but little society except such as 
 sought him in his retirement 
 
 Godwin was living in New Palace Yard in 1832, when 
 Douglas Jerrold took his son to call upon him. 
 
 I remember vividly accompanying my father to the dark rooms 
 in the New Palace Yard, where I saw an old vivacious lady and 
 old gentleman. My father was most anxious that I Lifeo f 
 
 should remember them, and I do remember well that ? OU 8 1 1 ^, 
 
 Jerrold by 
 
 he appeared to bear a strong regard for them. ... his Son, 
 One morning he called on the Godwins', and was kept 
 for some moments waiting in their drawing-room. It was irre- 
 sistible, he never could think of these things. Whistle in a 
 ladies' drawing-room ! Still he did whistle, not only pia- 
 nissimo, but fortissimo, with variations enough to satisfy the most 
 ambitious of thrushes. Suddenly good little Mrs. Godwin gently 
 opened the door, paused still not seen by the performer to 
 catch the dying notes of the air, and then, coming up to her 
 visitor, startled him with the request, made in all seriousness, 
 ' You could n't whistle that again, could you ? '
 
 118 OLIVER GOLDSMITH. [1728-1774. 
 
 The erection of the New Houses of Parliament has entirely 
 changed the features of New Palace Yard. Godwin died here 
 in 1836, and was buried by the side of Mary Wollstonecraft 
 in the yard of Old St. Pancras Church, St. Pancras-in-the- 
 Fields. 
 
 On the building of the Metropolitan and Midland Rail- 
 ways, and the destruction of portions of this graveyard, the 
 bones of Godwin and of his two wives were removed, in 18-31, 
 to Bournemouth. 
 
 This cemetery on Old St. Pancras Road was known in 
 1885 as St. Pancras Gardens. Its character was still pre- 
 served, although no interments have been permitted there in 
 many years. All the old tombs were still standing, except 
 such as had been destroyed by the railway bridges. 
 
 Godwin was an active member of the Mulberry Club 
 (see JEBROLD). It held its meetings at the Wrekin Tavern, 
 which stood until about 1870 at No. 22 Broad Court, Bow 
 Street, on the corner of Cross Court. 
 
 OLIVER GOLDSMITH. 
 1728-1774. 
 
 T X 7 HEN Oliver Goldsmith, penniless, friendless, and for- 
 * * lorn, first arrived in London, in 1756, he found em- 
 ployment in the establishment of a chemist, at the corner 
 of Monument Yard and Fish Street ; but no houses dating 
 back so far as the middle of the last century exist there 
 now. In the same year, 1756, he is known to have at- 
 tempted the practice of medicine on the Bankside, and 
 also to have been reading proof for Samuel Richardson in 
 Salisbury Court, Fleet Street (see RICHARDSON).
 
 1728-1774.] OLIVER GOLDSMITH. 119 
 
 In the beginning of 1757 Goldsmith was usher in a school 
 at Peckham ; and Goldsmith House, as the school building 
 was afterwards called, still stood, and was respected, for Gold- 
 smith's sake, at Peckham, when John Forster wrote his ' Life 
 of Goldsmith' in 1848. It was taken down in 1876. 
 
 In 1758 Goldsmith found lodgings at No. 12 Green Arbor 
 Court, Old Bailey. 
 
 Irving, in his ' Life of Goldsmith,' quotes Bishop Percy, a 
 warm friend of the author of ' She Stoops to Conquer,' as 
 saying : 
 
 I called on Goldsmith at his lodgings in March, 1759, and 
 found him writing his ' Inquiry ' in a miserable, dirty-looking 
 room, in which there was but one chair ; and when, from civility, 
 he resigned it to me, he himself was obliged to sit in the window. 
 
 In his ' Tales of a Traveller ' (' The Club of Good Fel- 
 lows '), Irving thus describes his own visit to Green Arbor 
 Court, half a century after Goldsmith's death : 
 
 At length we came upon Fleet Market, and, traversing it, 
 turned up a narrow street to the bottom of a long, steep flight 
 of stone steps, called Breakneck Stairs. These, he told me, led to 
 Green Arbor Court, and that down them poor Goldsmith might 
 many a time have risked his neck. When we entered the court 
 I could not but smile to think in what out-of-the-way comers 
 Genius produces her bantlings. . . . This Green Arbor Court I 
 found to be a small square surrounded by tall and miserable 
 houses, the very intestines of which seemed turned inside out, to 
 judge from the old garments and frippery fluttering from every 
 window. It appears to be a region of washerwomen, and lines 
 were stretched about the little square, on which clothes were dang- 
 ling to dry. . . . Poor Goldsmith ! what a time he must have had 
 of it, with his quiet disposition and nervous habits, penned up in 
 this den of noise and vulgarity ! 
 
 Green Arbor Court in 1885 was little more than a patch 
 of bare ground filled with carriers' carts and railway vans. 
 The old houses had all disappeared, and brand-new brick
 
 120 OLIVER GOLDSMITH. [1728-1774. 
 
 buildings occupied their site. The court is open towards 
 the Old Bailey ; but the Holboru Viaduct Station stretches 
 across its western end, where once were Breakneck Stairs, 
 leading to Fleet Market and Seacoal Lane. 
 
 In 1 760 Goldsmith removed to No. 6 Wine Office Court, 
 Fleet Street, where he occupied more respectable lodgings 
 than any to which he had before aspired. Here Dr. John- 
 son first visited him on the 31st of May, 1761. The house 
 known as No. 6 Wine Office Court in 1885 was probably of 
 later date than Goldsmith's time. It is nearly opposite the 
 well-known Cheshire Cheese Tavern, where tradition says he 
 frequently dined and supped with Dr. Johnson and other 
 congenial friends (see JOHXSOX). 
 
 Goldsmith wrote ' The Vicar of Wakefield ' in Wine 
 Office Court, and Dr. Johnson's description of a scene that 
 occurred there after its completion will best show the char- 
 acter of the man and his mode of life at that time. 
 Boswell reports his great friend as saying : 
 
 I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith, that he 
 was in great distress, and as it was not in his power to come to 
 
 me, begging that I would come to him as soon as pos- 
 Life'of 3 sible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to 
 Johnson, j^ Directly. I accordingly went to him as soon as I 
 
 was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested 
 him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I per- 
 ceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had a bottle of 
 Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, 
 desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means 
 by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a 
 novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked 
 into it, and saw its merit ; told the landlady I should soon return, 
 and, having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. I 
 brought Goldsmith the money ; and he discharged his rent, not 
 without rating his landlady in a high tone for having used hiip 
 so ill.
 
 1728-1774.] OLIVER GOLDSMITH. 121 
 
 In 17G4 Johnson found Goldsmith in a humble set of 
 chambers at No. 2 Garden Court, Middle Temple, near the 
 New Library and behind Fountain Court. The buildings 
 have now disappeared. He went there from Gray's Inn, 
 from whence he dated a letter on the 6th of March of the 
 same year. 
 
 The five hundred pounds received for the ' Good Natured 
 Man ' gave Goldsmith a feeling of unlimited wealth ; and he 
 took chambers consisting of three rooms on the second floor 
 of No. 2 Brick Court, Middle Temple, 
 
 on the right hand ascending the staircase, and overlooking the 
 umbrageous walks of the Temple Garden. The lease he pur- 
 chased for 400, and then went on to furnish the Il , ving>3 
 rooms with mahogany sofas, card-tables, and bookcases, ^dsmith, 
 with curtains, mirrors, and Wilton carpets. His awk- 
 ward person was also furnished in a style befitting his apartment ; 
 for, in addition to his suit of Tyrian bloom satin grain, we find 
 another charged about this time in the books of Mr. Filby, in 
 no less gorgeous terms, being 'lined with silk and furnished 
 with gold buttons.' Thus lodged and thus arrayed, he invited 
 the visits of his most aristocratic acquaintances, and no longer 
 quailed beneath the courtly eye of Beauclerc. He gave dinners 
 to Johnson, Percy, Reynolds, Bickerstaff, and other friends 
 of note, and supper-parties to young folks of both sexes. . . . 
 Blackstone, whose chambers were immediately below, and who 
 was studiously occupied on his ' Commentaries,' used to com- 
 plain of the racket made by ' his revelling neighbor.' 
 
 In 1885 No. 2 Brick Court was precisely as Goldsmith left it 
 when carried to his grave. His chambers have been changed 
 as to furniture and equipments, of course, by the several 
 generations who have followed him as their occupants ; but 
 the house (erected in 1704) and the little court are the 
 house and court he knew so well. 
 
 Goldsmith's country home for a number of years was at
 
 122 OLIVER GOLDSMITH. [1728-1774. 
 
 Canonbury House, in Islington, which then was a suburb 
 of London. Nothing was left of the house, even in Gold- 
 smith's day, but the old brick tower, still standing in 1885, 
 in Canonbury Square, at the junction of Cornpton Road and 
 Canonbury Place, and one of the most picturesque old struc- 
 tures in the metropolis. It was a favorite resort of pub- 
 lishers, authors, and literary men. Irving, in his ' Life of 
 Goldsmith,' relates his visit to Canonbury Tower, and de- 
 scribes the painted wainscots and gothic windows of Gold- 
 smith's sitting-room, where, no doubt, he gathered and 
 entertained Johnson and his coterie. It is said that parts 
 of ' The Deserted Village ' and ' The Traveller ' were 
 written here. 
 
 Goldsmith also spent portions of the summers of 1771, 
 1 772, and 1 774 in the last year only a few weeks before his 
 death in a farm-house on the west side of the Edgeware 
 Road, ' near the six-mile stone ' from London, where he wrote 
 ' She Stoops to Conquer ' and ' Animated Nature.' 
 
 Goldsmith died, and was buried, where the happiest and 
 most peaceful years of his life had been spent, in the Temple. 
 The end came on the 4th of April, 1774. 
 
 His death was a shock to the literary world, and a deep afflic- 
 tion to a wide circle of intimates and friends ; for, with all his 
 
 . , foibles and peculiarities, he was fully as much beloved 
 Goldsmith, as he was admired. Burke, on hearing the news, burst 
 into tears. Sir Joshua Reynolds threw by his pencil 
 for the day, and grieved more than he had done in times of great 
 family distress. . . . Johnson felt the blow deeply and gloomily. 
 In writing some time afterward to Boswell, he observed, ' Of poor 
 Goldsmith there is little to be told more than the papers have 
 made public. He died of a fever, made, I am afraid, more violent 
 by uneasiness of mind. His debts began to be heavy, and all his 
 resources were exhausted. Sir Joshua is of opinion that he owed 
 no less than two thousand pounds. Was ever poet so trusted 
 before ? '
 
 1728-1774.] OLIVER GOLDSMITH. 123 
 
 Goldsmith's funeral took place at five in the afternoon of 
 the 9th of April, when his staircase on Brick Court was 
 crowded with mourners of all ranks and conditions of life, 
 conspicuous among them being the outcasts of both sexes, 
 who loved and wept for him because of the goodness he had 
 done. The exact position of Goldsmith's grave is not known. 
 The plain monument with the simple inscription, 'Here 
 Lies Oliver Goldsmith,' was placed, in 1860, on the north 
 side of the Temple Church, as near as possible to the spot 
 where his remains are supposed to lie. 
 
 Goldsmith was a member of many clubs, notably, of The 
 Club, afterwards called The Literary Club, which was 
 founded by Dr. Johnson, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and others, in 
 1763. It originally met in the Turk's Head Tavern, which 
 then stood on the corner of Greek and Compton Streets, 
 Soho, but was subsequently removed to Gerard Street, hard 
 by (see JOHNSON). 
 
 ' I believe Mr. Fox will allow me to say,' remarked the Bishop of 
 St. Asaph, ' that the honor of being elected into the Turk's Head 
 
 Club is not inferior to that of being representative of 
 
 Forster's 
 
 Westminster and Surrey.' The Bishop had iust been Goldsmith, 
 
 book iii 
 elected ; but into such lusty independence had the club 
 
 sprung up that bishops, even lord chancellors, were known to have 
 knocked for admission unsuccessfully. 
 
 He [Johnson] and Mr. Langton and I went together to The 
 Club (1773), where we found Mr. Burke, Mr. Garrick, and some 
 
 other members, and amongst them our friend Gold- _ 
 
 . Boswell's 
 
 smith, who sat brooding over Johnsons reprimand to Life of John- 
 him after dinner. Johnson perceived this, and said son> ' 
 aside to some of us, ' I '11 make Goldsmith forgive me,' and then 
 called to him in a loud voice, ' Dr. Goldsmith, something passed 
 to-day where you and I dined ; I ask your pardon.' Goldsmith 
 answered placidly, ' It must be much from you, sir, that I take 
 ill ; ' and so at once the difference was over, and they were on as 
 easy terms as ever, and Goldsmith rattled away as usual.
 
 124 OLIVER GOLDSMITH. [1728-1774. 
 
 A less important club of his met at the Globe Tavern, 
 No. 134 Fleet Street, not far from Shoe Lane, and since 
 destroyed. 
 
 Another of these free-and-easy clubs met on Wednesday even- 
 ings at the Globe. It was somewhat in the style of the Three 
 
 . , Jolly Pigeons ; songs, jokes, dramatic imitations, bur- 
 Goldsmith, lesque parodies, and broad sallies of humor formed a 
 contrast to the sententious morality, pedantic casuistry, 
 and polished sarcasm of the learned critic. . . . Johnson used to be 
 severe upon Goldsmith for mingling in these motley circles, observ- 
 ing that having been originally poor he had contracted a love for 
 low company. Goldsmith, however, was guided not by a taste 
 for what was low, but what was comic and characteristic. 
 
 He belonged also to a card club at the Devil Tavern, 
 No. 1 Fleet Street (see JONSON) ; to the Robin Hood De- 
 bating Club, held in the Robin Hood Tavern, Essex Street, 
 Strand, afterwards removed to the Robin Hood Tavern in 
 Butcher Row, behind St. Clement Danes, and taken down 
 on the erection of the Xew Law Courts (see BURKE, p. 28) ; 
 and also to ' a shilling rubber club,' which met at the Bed- 
 ford, Covent Garden (see CHURCHILL, p. 51). 
 
 Goldsmith's taverns were more numerous even than his 
 clubs. In 1757 his letters were addressed to the ' Temple 
 Exchange Coffee House, near Temple Bar,' no sign of which 
 is left. 
 
 He was frequently at the Mitre, Xo. 39 Fleet Street 
 (see JOHNSON), at the Grecian, Devereux Court, Strand 
 (see ADDISON, p. 7), at the Chapter Coffee House, 8 No. 50 
 Paternoster Row (see BROXTE, p. 22, and CHATTERTON, p. 44), 
 and at Jack's Coffee House, afterwards Walker's, at the corner 
 of Dean and Queen Streets, Soho. 
 
 Walker's Hotel was 
 
 in 1770 the oldest tavern in London, but three, and is now 
 [1845] probably the oldest. Mr. Walker, the present landlord
 
 1728-1774.] OLIVEK GOLDSMITH. 125 
 
 of this hotel, who has lived in it fifty years and has now reached 
 the venerable age of ninety, is proud of the ancient 
 honors of the house. On his card he duly informs Homes and 
 his friends that it was here that Johnson, Garrick, ^Briti'sh 
 
 Goldsmith, and other literary characters of eminence ??* s '*2i: i - : 
 
 . J . Goldsmith, 
 
 used to resort. The house is old, spacious, and quiet. 
 
 Dr. Joseph Rogers, an old resident of Soho Square, in 
 reply to inquiries about this ancient tavern, kindly furnishes 
 the following information : 
 
 Walker's Hotel consisted of five houses, two in Dean Street 
 and three in Queen Street. The proprietor, when I first knew 
 him, now [1883] nearly forty years ago, was a very old man. 
 He had not the wit to adapt himself to modern notions, and 
 continued to carry on his business in the old style until his 
 business left him. At the time I made his acquaintance he was 
 nearly insolvent. He was ultimately ejected from the premises, 
 and died at the workhouse of the Strand Union, at the advanced 
 age of ninety-five. When I took the premises, No. 33 Dean Street 
 (corner of Queen Street), now thirty -four years ago, the poor old 
 man led me over the place and showed me the different rooms. 
 He pointed out that in my first-floor front room, Goldsmith, 
 Johnson, and others used to meet. He also told me that in the 
 four-post bed in the said room Nelson slept the night before he 
 embarked from Portsmouth to fight the battle of Trafalgar. He 
 took me into his cellars, and showed me some whiskey he had put 
 down in 1800. There is no doubt of the truth of this, and you 
 can make use of the information as you see fit. The present 
 Queen's Hotel (No. 12 Queen Street) was the bar of the old hoteL 
 The two houses beyond were simply used as lodging-houses. 
 
 Goldsmith wrote ' A Reverie ' at the Boar's Head Tavern, 
 Shakspere's Boar's Head, in Eastcheap (Cannon Street), 
 which stood at the junction of that thoroughfare and Grace- 
 church Street, and was taken down when King William 
 Street was formed, in 1831. Its site is occupied by the 
 statue to William IV.
 
 126 JOHN GOWER. [1825-1408. 
 
 One of his favorite suburban taverns was the Old Red 
 Lion, still standing in 1885, which, according to the in- 
 scription in curious old English letters along its renewed 
 front, was ' established in 1415.' It is at No. 186 St. John's 
 Street Road, Islington, near the junction of Pentonville 
 Road, City Road, and High Street. It has been restored ; 
 but the old pointed gables and general antique style are 
 retained. 
 
 He spent much of his leisure time, also, at the Old Bap- 
 tist's Head, No. 30 St. John's Lane, Clerkenwell, on the site 
 of which a new tavern bearing the same name was erected 
 a few years ago ; and at the "White Conduit Tea Gardens, 
 which stood on the east side of Penton Street, Pentonville, 
 until 1849. A new White Conduit Tavern, in 1885, was at 
 No. 14 Barnsbury Road, Penton Street. 
 
 JOHN GOWEK. 
 
 Circa 1325-1408. 
 
 OWER, who is said to have been a member of the 
 Middle Temple (see CHAUCER, p. 46), seems to have 
 seen but little of London, and no traces of his early life 
 here are to be found. It is believed that he was married 
 in the Church of St. Mary Overy, now St. Saviour's, South- 
 wark, in 1397, by "\Villiam of "Wickham, then Bishop of 
 Winchester; and he is known to have spent the last few 
 years of his life in blindness in the priory of that church, 
 which he enriched by his gifts and bequests, and where he 
 died and was buried (see FLETCHER, p. 107). 
 
 And thus whan they hadde gone theyr journey, the one of 
 them, that is to saye, John Gower, prepared for his bones a
 
 1716-1771.] THOMAS GRAY. 127 
 
 restynge place in the monastery of Saynt Mayre Overies, where, 
 somewhat after the olde fashion he lyeth ryght sumptuously 
 buryed, with a garland on his head in token that he 
 in his lyfe dayes flouryshed freshely in literature and 
 science, and the same monument in remembraunce of QO^ U 3 <, 
 hym erected, is on the north syde of the foresayde 
 churche in the chapell of Saynte John, where he hath of his own 
 foundation a masse dayly songe. 
 
 John Gower, Esquire, a famous poet, was then an especial 
 benefactor to that work, and was there buried in the north side 
 of that church, in the chapel of St. John, where he _ 
 
 Stow a 
 
 founded a chantry ; he lieth under a tomb of stone, Survey of 
 with his image also of stone over him ; the hair of his Edition'of 
 head, auburn, long to his shoulders, but curling up 1603 ' 
 and a small forked beard: on his head a chaplet like a coronet 
 of four roses ; a habit of purple damasked down to his feet ; 
 a collar of esses gold about his neck ; under his head the likeness 
 of three books which he compiled. 
 
 Gower' s monument, for so many years in the Chapel of 
 St. John, was repaired and recolored in 1832, and removed 
 to the south transept of the church. The canons of the St. 
 Mary Overy continued to perform ' a yearly obit to his mem= 
 ory' for a long time, and to attach to his tomb a notice say- 
 ing that ' Whosoever prayeth for the soul of John Gower, he 
 shall, so oft as he soe doth, have an M and a D of pardon.' 
 
 THOMAS GRAY. 
 
 1716-1771. 
 
 RAY'S associations with London were slight and acci- 
 dental. He was born on the 26th of November, 1716, 
 in the house of his father, a money-scrivener, on the south 
 side of Cornhill. This house, which stood on the site of
 
 128 THOMAS GRAY. [1716-1771. 
 
 No. 41 Cornhill, between Birchin Lane and St. Michael's 
 Church, was destroyed by fire in 1748. After he went to 
 Eton he never had a permanent home in the metropolis, 
 but lodged during his occasional visits, as his letters show, 
 at a hosier's named Roberts, at the east end of Jermyn 
 Street, near the Hay market ; or at 'Frisby the Oilman's,' 
 on the opposite side of the way. The names of both 
 Frisby and Eoberts are to be found in the early directo- 
 ries, but before streets were numbered. Here he paid not 
 more than half a guinea a week for his rooms, and dined 
 at a neighboring coffee-house. 
 
 In 1759 Gray lodged in Southampton Eow, Bloomsbury 
 Square, near the then new British Museum, to the Reading 
 Room of which he was a frequent visitor. 
 
 Gray, from his bedroom window, looked out on a southwest 
 garden wall, covered with flowering jessamine through Jun and 
 
 July. There had been roses, too, in this London 
 Edmund 
 
 Gosse's garden. Gray must always have flowers about him, 
 English Men an ^ he trudged down to Covent Garden every day for 
 cha^viP' kis sweet peas and pinks and scarlet Martogon lilies, 
 double stocks and flowering marjoram. His drawing- 
 room looked over Bedford Gardens, and a fine stretch of upland 
 fields crowned at last against the sky by the villages of Highgate 
 and Hampstead. 
 
 A letter of Gray to Walpole, written in 1737, shows him 
 to have been at that time an inmate of his uncle's house at 
 Burnham, and expresses his interest in ' the most venerable 
 beeches and other very reverend vegetables who dream out 
 their old stories to the winds ' in the forest there. During 
 his residence at Stoke, Burnham Beeches were his frequent 
 resort. 
 
 West End, the house in which Gray's mother lived, and he 
 wrote much poetry and many letters, now [1876] called Stoke 
 Court, is about one mile north of the church. Gray described
 
 1794-1871.] GEORGE GROTE. 129 
 
 it as ' a compact neat box of red brick, with sash windows, a 
 grotto made of flints, a walnut-tree with three mole-hills under 
 it.' The house was rebuilt by Mr. Penn about 1845, 
 on a larger scale, and is now a gentleman's villa. The HanT-Book 
 room in which Gray wrote was, however, preserved, "[y^f^' 
 and forms a part of the present house. The walnut- London : 
 tree and grotto were retained, and the basin of gold- 
 fishes greatly enlarged. 
 
 The house in Gray's time was built of brick, and was three 
 stories in height. It was afterwards covered with stucco, 
 forming only a small wing to the right of the more pretentious 
 mansion added to it by Mr. Penn. The present occupants 
 have no knowledge of the walnut-tree or the grotto. 
 
 Gray's devotion to his mother and to her memory is well 
 known. She was buried in Stoke Pogis Churchyard, which 
 is without question the churchyard of the ' Elegy,' to the east 
 of the church, and under a stone bearing his touching testi- 
 mony that she was ' The careful tender mother of many 
 children, one of whom alone had the misfortune to survive 
 her.' Gray, at his own request, rests his head upon the lap 
 of earth by her side. 
 
 GEORGE GROTE. 
 
 1794-1871. 
 
 EORGE GROTE was born at Shortlands near Becken- 
 ham, in Kent, about ten miles from London. After 
 four years in the Grammar School at Sevenoaks, he was sent 
 to the Charter House School (see ADDISON, p. 1), where 
 he remained until he was sixteen, and where it is recorded 
 that at that age he was well flogged for giving a farewell 
 

 
 130 GEORGE GROTE. [1794-1871. 
 
 supper, just before leaving school, to some of his classmates, 
 at the Albion Tavern still standing in 1885 at No. 172 
 Aldersgate Street. 
 
 At the age of sixteen Grote entered the banking establish- 
 ment of his father, No. 62 Threadneedle Street. He lived 
 with his father in the banking-house until he was married, 
 in 1820, when he took possession of a house ' in the court 
 adjoining.' This was his town home for many years, and 
 here the ' History of Greece ' was designed and begun. He 
 and his wife were often to be found in the Drapers' Garden 
 hard by (see MACAULAY), which had been the breathing-place 
 of his fellow historian. 
 
 Direct successors of the Grotes were still doing business 
 in 1885 on the site of the original banking-house, on Thread- 
 needle Street, corner of Bartholomew Lane. The ' adjoining 
 court/ simply so described in the biography of Grote, was 
 either Capel Court, by its side, in Bartholomew Lane, or 
 New Court, or Shooter's Court, on Throgmorton Street, in 
 its rear. The appearance of the entire block of buildings 
 has been greatly changed of late years by the erection 
 and extensions of the Stock Exchange and other business 
 houses. 
 
 The Grotes had different suburban homes, at Fortis 
 Green, beyond Highgate ; on the Green Lane, Stoke-New- 
 ington, near the New River ; at Burnham ; and at Dulwich, 
 half a mile beyond Dulwich College. In 1836 Grote moved 
 to No. 3 Eccleston Street, Belgrave Square, an imposing 
 mansion, numbered 3 Belgrave Place in 1885, and in 
 1848 to No. 12 Savile Eow, Burlington Gardens, where, in 
 1871, he died. This house was standing in 1885. 
 
 He was buried in Thirlwall's grave, in the Poets' Corner 
 of Westminster Abbey.
 
 1778-1830.] WILLIAM HAZLITT. 131 
 
 HENRY HALLAM. 
 
 1777-78-1859. 
 
 T T ALL AM was a Bencher of the Middle Temple. In 
 * * 1819, and later, he occupied an old-fashioned mansion 
 at Fulham, called Arundel House, which in 1885 was still 
 standing, although somewhat altered, on Fulham Road, op- 
 posite Parson's Green Lane. 
 
 He wrote his 'History of the Middle Ages' at No. 67 
 Wimpole Street, near Queen Anne Street, Cavendish Square, 
 his home for many years. 
 
 He was a frequent partaker of the dinners of the Literary 
 Club (see GOLDSMITH, p. 123). 
 
 WILLIAM HAZLITT. 
 
 1778-1830. 
 
 T T AZLITT had no settled home of his own in London 
 
 until after his marriage, in 1808 ; but during his 
 occasional visits to town he lodged with his brother John, 
 at No. 12 Rathbone Place, Oxford Street, in a house rebuilt 
 in 1883, and later at No. 109 Great Russell Street, Blooms- 
 bury Square, in a house which formed part of the old 
 Tavistock House, but has now entirely disappeared. 
 
 Hazlitt was married to Miss Sarah Stoddard, on the 1st of 
 May, 1808, at St. Andrew's, Holborn, now on the Viaduct. 
 
 The only persons present at the marriage, so far as I can recol- 
 lect, were Dr. and Mrs. Stoddard, and Mr. and Miss Lamb ; but 
 I strongly suspect there were other guests of whom there i no
 
 132 WILLIAM HAZLITT. [1778-1830. 
 
 remaining record. Lamb, in a letter-to Southey, dated August 
 
 9, 1815, more than seven years after the event, thus alludes to his 
 
 having been present : ' I was at Hazlitt's marriage, and 
 
 William 3 had liked to have been turned out several times during 
 
 ia"' xf rt tne ceremon } r - Anything awful makes me laugh.' It 
 was not an every-day kind of business this, with Wil- 
 liam Hazlitt for bridegroom, and Charles Lamb for best man, and 
 Miss Lamb for bridesmaid ; and all of a Sunday morning ! I 
 wonder whether Elia appeared at the altar in his snuff-colored 
 snialls. I wonder whether Miss Lamb wore, after all, the sprig 
 dress, or the China-Manning silk, or a real white gown ? I won- 
 der in what way Lamb misbehaved, so as to leave a strong impres- 
 sion on his mind years after ? To have been in St. Andrew's 
 that day, and to have seen the whole thing from a good place, 
 would have been a recollection worth cherishing. 
 
 In 1812 Hazlitt and his wife took possession of the house 
 No. 19 York Street, Westminster, which had been occupied 
 by John Milton; and here they lived until 1819. This 
 house was taken down in 1877. It faced on York Street 
 in Hazlitt's day, a few doors east of the spot where the 
 Westminster Panorama was afterwards built ; and the gar- 
 den in its rear formed part of the lawn of Queen Anne 
 Mansions in 1885 (see MILTON). 
 
 On knocking at the door [No. 19 York Street, Westminster], it 
 was, after a long interval, opened by a sufficiently neat-handed do- 
 
 mestic. The outer door led immediately from the street 
 c. G. Pat- ,, x . , , . ,. ,. 
 
 more's My (down a step) into an empty apartment, indicating an 
 
 Acciuai S nt? d uninhabited house, and I supposed I had mistaken the 
 auces, vol. number ; but on asking for the object of my search, 
 I was shown to a door, which opened (a step from the 
 ground) on to a ladder-like staircase, bare like the rest, which led 
 to a dark, bare landing-place and thence to a large square wain- 
 scoted apartment. The great curtainless windows of this room 
 looked upon some dingy trees ; the whole of the wall over and 
 about the chimney-piece was entirely covered, up to the ceiling, 
 by names written in pencil, of all sizes and characters, and in all
 
 1778-1830.] WILLIAM HAZLITT 133 
 
 directions, commemorative of visits of curiosity to the home of 
 Pindarus (John Milton). There was near to the empty fireplace 
 a table with breakfast things upon it (though it was two o'clock 
 in the afternoon). Three chairs and a sofa were standing about 
 the room, and one unbound book lay on the mantel-piece. At 
 the table sat Hazlitt, and on the sofa a lady, whom I found to be 
 his wife. 
 
 Once I dined with him [Hazlitt]. This (an unparalleled occur- 
 rence) was in York Street, when some friends had sent him a 
 couple of Dorking fowls, of which he suddenly invited 
 me to partake. I went expecting the usual sort of 
 dinner, but it was limited solely to the fowls and o f ^ 
 bread. He drank nothing but water, and there was 
 nothing but water to drink. He offered to send for some porter 
 for me ; but being out of health at the time I declined, and 
 escaped after dinner to a coffee-house, where I strengthened 
 myself with a few glasses of wine. 
 
 In 1820 Hazlitt was living in apartments at No. 9 South- 
 ampton Buildings, a short street running crookedly between 
 Holborn and Chancery Lane. No. 9, on the west side of 
 the street, and nine doors from Holboru, was taken down 
 in 1883. He had in 1820 finally separated from his first 
 wife. His changes of residence after the breaking up of his 
 York Street home were many. Mr. Patmore found him in 
 1824 in Down Street, Piccadilly, and pleasantly describes 
 his erratic life there, his late rising, his musing during the 
 greater part of his days at the breakfast-table, and his 
 stimulating himself to excess with very strong tea. About 
 1827 he lodged at No. 40 Half Moon Street, Piccadilly, in 
 a house no longer standing; in 1829 he removed to No. 3 
 Bouverie Street, Fleet Street, raised one story in 1885; 
 and in 1830 he went to No. 6 Frith Street, Soho, where in 
 the same year he died. 
 
 One Saturday afternoon in September [Sept. 18, w ? oirsof 
 1830], when Charles Lamb was in the room, the scene Hazlitt, part 
 closed. He [Hazlitt] died so quietly that his son, who "' c ap ' X1X '
 
 134 WILLIAM HAZLITT. [1778-1830. 
 
 was sitting by his bedside, did not know that he was gone till 
 the vital breath had been extinct a moment or two. 
 
 The house in which Hazlitt died was, in 1885, standing 
 unchanged. 
 
 The grave of Hazlitt is in the yard of St. Anne's Church, 
 Wardour and Dean Streets, Soho. Against the centre wall 
 of the church on the Wardour Street side, and on the right 
 hand as you enter the yard, is a flat stone standing under 
 that of the King of Corsica. The inscription is so remark- 
 able that it is given here in full : 
 
 Near This Spot 
 
 Rests 
 
 William Hazlitt 
 
 Boru April 10th, 1778. Died Sept. 18th, 1830. 
 He lived to see his deepest wishes gratified 
 As he expressed them in his Essay 
 ' On The Fear of Death ' 
 
 viz : 
 
 ' To see the downfall of the Bourbons, 
 And some prospect of good in mankind. 
 
 (Charles X 
 
 Was driven from France 29th July, 1830) 
 ' To leave some sterling work to the World ' 
 He lived to complete his ' Life of Napoleon " 
 
 His desire 
 
 That some friendly hand should 
 consign him to the grave, was accomplished to a 
 limited but profound extent ; on these conditions 
 He was ready to depart, and to have inscribed 
 
 on his tomb, . 
 Grateful and Contented. 
 
 He was 
 
 The first (unanswered) Metaphysician of the Age ; 
 A despiser of the merely Rich and Great, 
 A lover of the People, Poor, or Oppressed ; 
 A hater of the Pride and Power of the Few 
 As opposed to the happiness of the Many.
 
 1778-1880.] WILLIAM HAZLITT. 135 
 
 A man of true Moral Courage 
 
 To Principles, 
 
 And a Yearning for the good of Human Nature. 
 Who was a burning wound to an Aristocracy 
 
 That could not answer before men, 
 And who may confront him before their Maker. 
 
 He lived and died 
 The unconquered Champion 
 
 of 
 
 Truth, Liberty and Humanity 
 ' Dubitantes opera legite.' 
 
 This Stone 
 
 is raised by one whose heart 
 is with him in the grave. 
 
 Hazlitt, while living a wild, unsettled life in Southamp- 
 ton Buildings, frequented the Southampton Coffee House 
 in that street, which he has described in his chapter on 
 ' Coffee House Politicians,' in his ' Table Talk,' published in 
 1823. This tavern, a door or two from Chancery Lane, 
 was 'restored' in 1882 or 1883, and everything which be- 
 longed to it in Hazlitt's day destroyed by the demons of 
 improvement and renovation. 
 
 Here [the Southampton] for several years he used to hold a 
 sort of evening levee, where, after a certain hour at night (and till 
 a very uncertain hour in the morning) he was always p atmore . g 
 to be found, and always more or less ready to take My Friends 
 part in that sort of desultory talk (the only thing quaintances: 
 really deserving the name of conversation), in which he 
 excelled every man I have ever met with. Here, in that little 
 bare and comfortless coffee-room have I scores of times seen the 
 daylight peep through the crevices of the window-shutters, upon 
 Table Talk that was worthy an intellectual feast of the gods.
 
 136 ROBERT HERRICK. [1591-1674. 
 
 GEOEGE HEEBEET. 
 
 1593-1632. 
 
 (~* EOEGE HEEBERT was a pupil of Westminster School 
 ^-* (see CHURCHILL, p. 51). In 1609 he left Westmin- 
 ster to enter Cambridge University, where, according to 
 Izaak Walton, he consecrated the first fruits of his early age 
 to virtue and a serious study of learning. He had but few 
 associations with London. 
 
 EOBEET HEEEICK. 
 
 1591-1674. 
 
 T T EEEICK was born in Wood Street, Cheapside, as he 
 * * sings in his ' Tears to Thamasis,' 
 
 ' Goldeii Cheapside, where the earth 
 Of Julia Herrick gave to me my birth,' 
 
 and was baptized in the Church of St. Vedast, in Foster 
 Lane, hard by. This church was destroyed in the Great 
 Fire of the next century, but was rebuilt by Wren. Her- 
 rick's youth, it would seem, was spent in London; but 
 he has left no record of his education, nor of his early 
 life here, except that when he was about thirty years of 
 age, he was adopted as one of the ' poeticale sonnes ' of 
 Ben Jonson. In 1615 he went to the University of Cam- 
 bridge, and for twenty years lived a quiet and retired life in 
 a country vicarage in Devonshire. When deprived of this 
 by Cromwell, he lodged for some time in St. Anne's Lane
 
 1799-1845.] THOMAS HOOD. 137 
 
 (now St. Anne's Street), running from Orchard Street to 
 Great Peter Street, ^Yestminster, where he remained until 
 the Restoration ; but after that London saw him not again. 
 His ' Hesperides ' was published in 1648, 'to be sold at the 
 Crown and Marygold, St. Paul's Church Yard,' a sign which 
 was destroyed, of course, eighteen years later, with the ca- 
 thedral and all its surroundings. 
 
 THOMAS HOLCROFT. 
 
 1744-1809. 
 
 T T OLCROFT was bom in Orange Court, Leicester Fields 
 *- -*- (since known as Orange Street, Leicester Square), 
 and worked until he was fifteen years of age at the trade of 
 his father, a shoemaker in South Audley Street. Few 
 records of his London life have been left. He died in the 
 parish of Marylebone. 
 
 THOMAS HOOD. 
 
 1799-1845. 
 
 '"TPHOMAS HOOD was born over the bookshop of Messrs. 
 Vernon and Hood, in the Poultry, on the northwest 
 corner of the little lane called Chapel Place, running be- 
 tween Grocers' Hall Court and St. Mildred's Court. The 
 house has been taken down. The building upon its site was 
 numbered 31 Poultry in 1885.
 
 138 THOMAS HOOD. [1799-1845. 
 
 Hood's first school was in Tokenhouse Yard (No. 45 Loth- 
 bury), and was kept by the Misses Hogsflesh. The brother 
 of these ladies was so painfully sensitive regarding the family 
 name that he never answered to it, and the scholars were 
 instructed to address him by his initial only. This story, 
 told in later years by Hood to his friends, suggested to 
 Lamb the subject of his unfortunate farce, ' Mr. H.' 
 
 Hood afterwards went to a school at Clapham, the site of 
 which he once pointed out to his son, but which in his ' Me- 
 morials ' of his father the younger Hood does not describe. 
 
 Hood was married in 1824 ; and a letter of Charles Lamb's 
 ' To the Hoods, Eobert Street, Adelphi,' is among the 
 correspondence of Elia. This Eobert Street house, No. 2, is 
 no longer standing. The Hoods left London in 1829 to 
 reside in the country, and did not return to town for a 
 number of years. 
 
 Hood near the end of 1841 went to No. 17 Elm Tree 
 Road, St. John's Wood, Regent Park, where he wrote, for 
 the Christmas number of 'Punch,' 1843, 'The Song of 
 the Shirt.' This house, a rigid, uncompromising three- 
 story mansion, was standing in 1885 at the curve of the 
 street, and was called ' The Cedars.' 
 
 After his removal to St. John's Wood, my father used to have 
 little modest dinners now and then, to which his intimate friends 
 were invited. Though the board did not groan, sides 
 use d to ache ; and if the champagne did not flow in 
 chap d 'ix. streams, the wit sparkled to make up for it. ... On 
 one occasion, to my mother's horror, the boy fell upstairs 
 with the plum pudding. The accident formed a peg for many j okes ; 
 amongst others, a declaration that the pudding which he said 
 was a stair, not a cabinet, one had disagreed with him, and that 
 he felt the pattern of the stair-carpet breaking out all over him. 
 
 Early in the year 1844 the Hoods went to Finchley 
 Road.
 
 1799-1845.] THOMAS HOOD. 139 
 
 My new house is at Devonshire Lodge, New Finchley Eoad, 
 St. John's Wood, where I shall be most happy to see you ; it is 
 just beyond the Eyre Arms, three doors short of the 
 turnpike. The Magazine office [Hood's Magazine] is ofThomaa 
 No. 1 Adam Street, Adelphi, and I am sometimes chap.'xii. 
 there of a morning. 
 
 No. 1 Adam Street, Adelphi, is at the corner of Adelphi 
 Terrace. There is no Devonshire Lodge in Finchley Road. 
 The turnpike was afterwards called Queen's Eoad, and Hood's 
 house was probably taken down to make room for the rail- 
 way station. 
 
 Hood died at Devonshire Lodge, May 3, 1845, and on the 
 10th was buried in Kensal Green. 
 
 His funeral was quiet and private, though attended by many 
 who had known and loved him. . . . Eighteen months after- 
 wards his faithful wife was buried by his side. . . . 
 I have a perfect recollection of my father's funeral, and 
 of the unfeigned sorrow of those kind and beloved Hood, 
 
 chap. XIIL 
 
 friends who attended it. It was a beautiful spring day ; 
 and I remember it was noticed that just as the service concluded, 
 a lark rose up, mounting and singing over our heads. This was 
 in the middle of the day. 
 
 The monument to Hood in Kensal Green was erected by 
 public subscription, at the suggestion of Eliza Cook, and was 
 unveiled by Lord Houghton, July 18, 1854. The simple 
 epitaph was of his own selecting : ' He sang " The Song of 
 the Shirt."'
 
 140 THEODORE HOOK- [1788-1841. 
 
 THEODORE HOOK. 
 
 1788-1841. 
 OOK was born in Charlotte Street, Bedford Square. 
 
 H 
 
 Met Hook in the Burlington Arcade ; walked with him. to the 
 British Museum. As we passed down Great Russell Street, Hook 
 
 paused on arriving at Charlotte Street, Bedford Square, 
 Letters of R. an( ^> pointing to the northwest corner nearly opposite 
 H- Barham, ^ ^ e house (the second from the corner) in which 
 
 he himself was born, observed, ' There by that lamp- 
 post stood Martha the Gypsy.' 
 
 Bedford Square and its immediate neighborhood have seen 
 but few changes during the last hundred years, although 
 Charlotte Street in Hook's babyhood included the present 
 Bloomsbury Street. 
 
 Hook went to school in Soho Square, at ' a green-doored, 
 brass-plated establishment,' the number of which he does 
 not give, but which might be any one of half a dozen simi- 
 lar houses answering to that description, and standing iu 
 1885, as they had stood a century earlier, on different sides 
 of the green. Here, according to his own story, he was a 
 regular truant, walking about the neighboring streets during 
 school hours, and inventing excuses for his unlawful absence. 
 
 Hook had no settled home in London when in 1810 he per- 
 petrated his famous joke, known as the ' Berners Street 
 Hoax.' Mrs. Tottingham, the unhappy victim, lived at No. 
 54 Berners Street (running from Oxford Street, northerly to 
 Mortimer Street and the Middlesex Hospital), when there 
 came to her door hundreds of tradespeople bearing goods of 
 all sizes and descriptions, from a mahogany coffin to an ounce
 
 1788-1841.] THEODORE HOOK. 141 
 
 of snuff, ordei-ed by Hook, in her name, to be delivered at 
 the same hour ; while at the same hour, at the invitation 
 of Mrs. Tottingham (per T. H.), came as well bishops, min- 
 isters of State, doctors in haste to cure her bodily ailments, 
 lawyers to make her will, barbers to shave her, mantua- 
 makers to fit her, men, women, and children on every con- 
 ceivable errand. The damage done and the confusion created 
 were very great ; and Hook, who had spent six weeks in con- 
 cocting and elaborating the scheme, witnessed the effects 
 from a safe window over the way. 
 
 In 1820 Hook established the newspaper called 'John 
 Bull.' Its office was in Gough Square, Fleet Street (see 
 JOHNSON). At this time he was living in a small cottage 
 at Somers Town. 
 
 In 1823 he was brought to England from the Mauritius in 
 disgrace for the misconduct of a deputy for which he was 
 held responsible, and was imprisoned in a sponging-house 
 in Shire Lane (no longer in existence ; see ADDISON, p. 8), 
 where he remained nine months. To a consoling friend who 
 congratulated him upon the comfort and brightness of his 
 prison apartments, he replied, pointing to the arrangements 
 made to prevent escape, ' Oh, yes, the room is cheerful 
 enough barring the windows ! ' Subsequently he was re- 
 moved to a lodging-house ' within the rule of King's Bench 
 Prison,' in Southwark, where he spent a year. This house 
 was in Temple Place, a row of buildings in the Blackfriars 
 Road, not far from the Surrey Theatre. 
 
 After his final discharge from arrest, in 1825, Hook hired 
 a cottage at Putney; but in 1827 he took a lai'ger and more 
 fashionable mansion, No. 5 Cleveland Row, directly oppo- 
 site the Chapel Royal, St. James's, which was still standing 
 in 1885. 
 
 In 1831 Hook settled at Egmont Villa, at Fulham, where 
 the rest of his life was spent.
 
 142 THEODORE HOOK. [1788-1841. 
 
 Here he engaged a comfortable but unpretending villa on the 
 
 banks of the river, situated between the bridge [Putney Bridge] 
 
 t and the pleasure-grounds of the Bishop of London. . . . 
 
 Life of His library was the beau ideal of a literary workshop ; 
 
 cjiap.'xiii l f moderate dimensions, but light and cheerful, hung 
 
 round with choice specimens of water-color drawings, 
 
 and opening into a small garden. 
 
 This house was taken down in 1855. It stood on the site 
 of the abutment of the Aqueduct of the Chelsea Water 
 Works Company. 
 
 Hook died at Fulham on the 24th of August, 1841, and .was 
 buried very privately in the churchyard of All Saints there, 
 immediately opposite the chancel window, and within a few 
 steps of his own house. A simple stone, with his name and 
 age, marks the spot ; but no green mound was above him 
 when his grave was visited in 1885, not a blade of grass or 
 a flower flourishing among the pebbles and rough, yellow, 
 unsightly flints that surround his headstone. 
 
 Hook was a clubable man, and a frequenter of Crockford's, 
 on the west side of St. James's Street, on the site of which the 
 Devonshire Club, No. 50 St. James's Street, was afterwards 
 erected, and of the Eccentrics, which met in his day in 
 Chandos Street, Coveut Garden (see SHERIDAN). 
 
 He was, however, more closely associated with the Athe- 
 naeum Club, Waterloo Place and Pall Mall, than with any 
 other. 
 
 At the Athenaeum Theodore Hook was a great card ; and in a 
 note to a sketch of him in the ' Quarterly Review,' it is stated that 
 
 the number of dinners at this club fell off by upwards 
 riosities of of three hundred per annum after Hook disappeared 
 Clubs! 11 : from his favorite corner, next the door of the coffee-room. 
 
 That is to say, there must have been some dozen of gen- 
 tlemen who chose to dine there once or twice every week of the 
 season, merely for the chance of Hook's being there, and permit- 
 ting them to draw their chairs to his little table in the course of
 
 1711-1776.] DAVID HUME. 
 
 the evening. The corner alluded to will, we suppose, long retain 
 the name which it derived from him, ' Temperance Corner.' 
 Many grave and dignified personages being frequent guests, it 
 would hardly have been seemly to be calling for repeated supplies 
 of a certain description ; but the waiters well understood what the 
 oracle of the corner meant by ' Another glass of toast and water,' 
 or ' A little more lemonade.' 
 
 He was also a member of ' The Honorable Society of 
 Jackers,' which met as late as 1812 at the Black Jack Tav- 
 ern, No. 1 2 Portsmouth Street, near Portugal Street, Lincoln's 
 Inn Fields. This inn called also the ' Jump,' from an ex- 
 ploit of Jack Sheppard, who was one of its frequenters was 
 still standing in 1885, although doomed to destruction, and 
 was one of the oldest, most curious and interesting inns left 
 in the metropolis. It had escaped the restorers, who have 
 done so much to wipe out all that they have attempted to 
 renew ; and save the few slight repairs that had been neces- 
 sary to keep it from tumbling to pieces, it was left as 
 Joe Miller and the worthies of his and later days had known 
 it. In the little dark back-parlor were the very benches and 
 tables of a couple of centuries ago, carved with the now un- 
 decipherable initials of a thousand names, many of which, 
 no doubt, were not born to die. 
 
 DAVID HUME. 
 1711-1776. 
 
 T TUME spent but little time in London. In 1758 he 
 * * was in lodgings in Lisle Street, Leicester Fields, and 
 again in 1766, when Eousseau was his guest, and before their 
 famous quarrel began. It was here that, as Rousseau 
 asserted, Hume insulted him while talking in his sleep, a
 
 144 LEIGH HUNT. [1784-1859. 
 
 grave charge, doubted by Hume's friends, who did not credit 
 him with ' snoring in French.' While Hume was Under- 
 secretary of State, from 1767 to 1769, he occupied a house 
 in Park Place, St. James's Street. The streets of London 
 were not regularly numbered at that time, and the position 
 of neither of these houses is known. He was a member 
 of Brooks's, which was in his day at No. 52 Pall Mall. The 
 British Institution, now no longer standing, afterwards occu- 
 pied its site. 
 
 LEIGH HUNT. 
 
 1784-1859. 
 
 T EIGH HUNT was born in the village of Southgate, 
 H' eight miles north of London, and in the parish of 
 Edmonton, where lie the weary bones of Charles and Mary 
 Lamb (see LAMB). He was educated at the Blue Coat 
 School (see COLERIDGE, pp. 56-57), and in his Autobiogra- 
 phy has given a graphic description of that establishment 
 in his day, and of his own life there. 
 
 Christ-Hospital (for such is its proper name, and not Christ's 
 Hospital) occupies a considerable portion of ground between 
 Newgate Street, Giltspur Street, St. Bartholomew's, 
 Hunt's and Little Britain. There is a quadrangle with clois- 
 ography, ters ; and the Square inside the cloisters is called the 
 chap. in. Garden, and most likely was the monastery garden. 
 Its only delicious crop for many years has been pavement. 
 Another large area, presenting the Grammar and Navigation 
 Schools, is also misnamed the Ditch ; the town ditch having 
 formerly run that way. In Newgate Street is seen the hall, or 
 eating-room, one of the noblest in England, adorned with enor- 
 mously long paintings by Verrio and others, and with an organ. 
 A portion of the old quadrangle once contained the library
 
 1784-1859.] LEIGH HUNT. 145 
 
 of the monks, and was built or repaired by the famous Whitting- 
 ton, whose arms were to be seen outside ; but alterations of late 
 years have done it away. Our routine of life was this. We 
 rose to the call of a bell at six in summer, and seven in winter ; 
 and after combing ourselves, and washing our hands and face, 
 we went at the call of another bell to breakfast. All this took 
 up about an hour. From breakfast we proceeded to school, where 
 we remained till eleven, winter and summer, and then had an 
 hour's play. Dinner took place at twelve. Afterwards was a 
 little play till one, when we went again to school, and remained 
 till five in summer and four in winter. At six was the supper. 
 We used to play after it in summer till eight. On Sundays, 
 the school time of other days was occupied in church, both morn- 
 ing and evening ; and as the Bible was read to us every day 
 before every meal, besides prayers and grace, we rivalled the 
 monks in the religious part of our duties. 
 
 On the 13th of June, 1813, Byron and Moore dined with 
 Hunt in Horsemonger Lane Gaol during his two years' im- 
 prisonment in that establishment for his libel upon the 
 Prince Regent in the ' Examiner.' 
 
 Our clay in the prison was, if not agreeable, at least novel and 
 odd. I had, for Lord Byron's sake, stipulated with our host before- 
 hand, that the party should be as much as possible 
 confined to ourselves ; and as far as regarded dinner Life of 
 my wishes had been attended to. . . . Soon after din- yron> 1813 ' 
 ner, however, there dropped in some of our host's literary friends, 
 who, being utter strangers to Lord Byron and myself, rather dis- 
 turbed the ease in which we were all sitting. 
 
 Hunt thus describes his prison surroundings : 
 
 I papered the walls with a trellis of roses ; I had the ceiling 
 colored with clouds and sky ; the barred windows Hunt's 
 were screened with Venetian blinds; and when my and^wneof 
 bookcases were set up. with their busts and flowers, his Contem- 
 
 1 . ' poranes, 
 
 and a pianoforte made its appearance, perhaps there vol. ii. 
 
 was not a handsomer room on that side of the water. I took a 
 pleasure, when a stranger knocked at the door, to see him come in 
 
 10
 
 146 LEIGH HUNT. [1784-1859. 
 
 and stare about him. The surprise on issuing from the borough 
 and passing through the avenue of a jail was dramatic. Charles 
 Lamb declared there was no other such room except in a fairy tale. 
 
 Horsemonger Laue Gaol stood on the south side of Trinity 
 Square, Newingtori Causeway. Its chief entrance still 
 standing in 1885, and occupied as an office for the stamping 
 of weights and measures, was on Union Road, formerly 
 Horsemouger Lane. A public playground for children was 
 opened on the site of the old prison in the spring of 1885. 
 
 When I first visited Leigh Hunt [1817], he lived at No. 8 
 York Buildings, in the New Road. His house was small and 
 Procter's scantily furnished. It was in a tiny room, built out at 
 
 Recollec- the back of the drawing-room, or first floor, which he 
 tions of 
 
 Men of appropriated as a study, and over the door 01 this was 
 a line from the ' Faery Queene.' . . . He had very few 
 books : an edition of the Italian Poets in many volumes, Spenser's 
 works, and the minor poems of Milton being, however, amongst 
 them. I don't think there was a Shakspere. There were always a 
 few cut flowers in a glass of water on the table. 
 
 New Road, which extended from City Road to Edgeware 
 Road in Hunt's time, has been divided by the Metropolitan 
 Board of Works, for some deeply mysterious reason, into 
 Pentonville Road, Euston Road, and Marylebone Road. York 
 Buildings, which no longer exists as such, was on the south 
 side of the present Marylebone Road, between York Place 
 and Gloucester Place, and not far from Marylebone Church. 
 
 There is, in the National Portrait Gallery at Kensington, 
 a letter of Hunt's, dated 1830, from 'Cromwell Lane, Old 
 Brompton.' This was that part of the street since called 
 Harrington Road, which lies between Queen's Gate and Old 
 Brompton Road. Hunt was living at No. 4 LTpper Cheyne 
 Row, Chelsea, in 1834, when Carlyle became his neighbor; 
 and his surroundings at that time are thus described by the 
 Chelsea Sage :
 
 1784-1859.] LEIGH HUNT. 147 
 
 Hunt's household. Nondescript ! Unutterable ! Mrs. Hunt 
 asleep on cushions ; four or five beautiful, strange, gypsy-looking 
 children running about in undress, whom the lady or- 
 dered to get us tea. The eldest boy, Percy, a sallow, 
 black-haired youth of sixteen, with a kind of dark v . 01 - " . 
 
 " chap. XVIIL 
 
 cotton nightgown on, went whirling about like a 
 familiar, pervading everything; an indescribable dream-like house- 
 hold. . . . Hunt's house excels all you have ever read of, a 
 poetical Tinkerdom, without parallel even in literature. In his 
 family room, where are a sickly large wife and a whole school 
 of well-conditioned wild children, you will find half a dozen old 
 rickety chairs gathered from half a dozen different hucksters, and 
 all seeming engaged, and just pausing, in a violent hornpipe. Oil 
 these and around them and over the dusty table and ragged car- 
 pet lie all kinds of litter, books, paper, egg-shells, scissors, and, 
 last night when I was there, the torn heart of a half-quarter loaf. 
 His own room above stairs, into which alone I strive to enter, he 
 keeps cleaner. It has only two chairs, a bookcase, and a writing- 
 table ; yet the noble Hunt receives you in his Tinkerdom in 
 the spirit of a king, apologizes for nothing, places you in the best 
 seat, takes a window-sill himself if there is no other, and then, 
 folding closer his loose flowing 'muslin cloud' of a printed night- 
 gown, in which he always writes, commences the liveliest dia- 
 logue on philosophy and the prospects of man (who is to be 
 beyond measure happy yet ) ; which again he will courteously 
 terminate the moment you are bound to go : a most interesting, 
 pitiable, lovable man, to be used kindly but with discretion. 
 
 Upper Cheyne Row, which crosses Great Cheyne Row, not 
 far from the house occupied so long by Carlyle, has been re- 
 numbered; but Hunt's quiet old-fashioned little house, which 
 in 1885 was No. 10, was pointed out by old residents of 
 the street, who remembered Hunt's occupancy of it half a 
 century before. 
 
 Hunt's homes and lodgings in London and its neighbor- 
 
 ^hood were many and varied, and it is not possible to follow 
 
 him to them all. He lived at one time at Paddington,
 
 148 LEIGH HUNT. [1784-1859. 
 
 where the windows of his study looked out on to West- 
 bourne Grove ; he lodged once near Coleridge, at Highgate ; 
 and when he wrote ' The Old Court Sxiburb,' he occupied 
 the house ^No. 32 Edwardes Square, Kensington, which 
 in 1885 was still standing as he left it. 
 
 Leigh Hunt Furthermore, I want you to come up here [No. 32 
 BknchaM 5 Edwardes Square] and give me a look iu. It will do 
 Jerroid's Life your kindly eyes good to see the nice study into which 
 
 Jen-oiif, I have escaped out of all the squalidities at Chelsea. 
 chap. iv. 
 
 I did not know Leigh Hunt in his prime, but I knew him well 
 when he lived at Edwardes Square, South Kensington. He was 
 
 then yielding to the universal conqueror. His son tells 
 Retrospect" us : ' He was usually seen in a dressing-gown, bending 
 of a Long jjjg nea d OV er a book or over a desk.' Tall and upright 
 
 still ; his hair white and straggling, scattered over a 
 brow of manly intelligence ; his eyes retaining much of their old 
 brilliancy combined with gentleness; his conversation still spark- 
 ling, though by fits and starts, he gave me the idea of a sturdy 
 ruin that, in donning the vest of time had been recompensed for 
 gradual decay of strength by gaining ever more and more of the 
 picturesque. 
 
 Hunt lived early in this century in the Vale of Health, a 
 little hamlet on Hampstead Heath. At one end is a mon- 
 ster caravansary of the common type, with merry-go-rounds 
 and tea-gardens, called the Vale of Health Hotel; while at 
 the other end is a smaller public house, called the Vale of 
 Health Tavern ; and between the two are a number of un- 
 assuming buildings of the ' villa ' order, but none seemingly 
 dating back to Hunt's time. Old inhabitants of the neigh- 
 borhood say that its character has entirely changed dur- 
 ing the last fifty years. Mr. Thorne believes that Hunt's 
 house was on the site of the Vale of Health Hotel. Dur- 
 ing the last year of his life he is said to have lived at 
 Hammersmith. 9
 
 1753-1821.] MRS. INCHBALD. 149 
 
 June 30, 1859. Drove to Hammersmith, where we found 
 Leigh Hunt and his two daughters awaiting us. 
 It was a very tiny cottage, with white curtains and James T 
 flowers in the window ; but his beautiful manner made Biographical 
 it a rich abode. The dear old man talked delightfully Sketch ' 
 about his flowers, calling them ' gentle household pets. 
 
 Hunt's name is not to be found in the ' London Directory ' 
 for 1859. 
 
 Hunt died, two months later, while visiting a friend in 
 Chatfield House, a modest two-storied brick dwelling on 
 the west side of the High Street, Putney, and numbered 84 
 a quarter of a century afterwards. He was buried in Kensal 
 Green. 
 
 MES. INCHBALD. 
 
 1753-1821. 
 
 A/TKS. INCHBALD in 1784 was lodging in Leices- 
 ^ * ter Court, Leicester Fields, afterwards Leicester 
 Square, in very humble apartments, where she began the 
 writing of the plays which have made her name known 
 to-day. 
 
 In 1787 she lived in Russell Street, Covent Garden, in the 
 house which had been Button's (see ADDISON, p. 6). Here 
 she occupied herself in translating plays from the French, 
 and here she sold for two hundred pounds her ' Simple 
 Story,' written in Frith Street, Soho, years before. 
 
 In 1810 Mrs. Inchbald lived at No. 5, and afterwards 
 at No. 11, George's Row, overlooking Hyde Park, and 
 since called St. George's Place, not far from St. George's 
 Hospital.
 
 150 MRS. INCHBALD. [1753-1821 
 
 In 1812 she removed to No. 4 Earl's Terrace, a quaint, 
 old-fashioned row of buildings with a strip of green before 
 them, in Kensington Koad opposite Holland Park. She 
 lodged also in JSloane Street, Knightsbridgc, and in Leonard 
 Place, Kensington, near Earl's Court Road. 
 
 At all times Mrs. Inchbald seems to have determined to retain 
 her perfect independence, and to have chosen to have her time 
 and property at her own disposal. She had an enthu- 
 E/wood's siastic love of home, although that home was often, 
 LadTs of indeed g enerall 7. only a single, or at most a couple of 
 voi gl f nd Mrs rooms U P two or tlu>ee P airs o f stairs occasionally in 
 Inchbald. the attic, where she was waited on by the servant of 
 the house, or sometimes not waited on at all, for she 
 not unfrequently speaks of fetching her own water, and dressing 
 her own dinner ; and she once kept a coroneted carriage waiting 
 whilst she finished scouring her apartment. ... At one time she 
 took up her abode in a boarding-house ; but she could not, she 
 said, when there, command her appetite and be hungry at stated 
 periods, like the rest of the boarders ; so she generally returned to 
 her attic, her crust of bread, and liberty. 
 
 Mrs. Inchbald died at Kensington House, which stood at 
 the entrance of Kensington High Street, almost opposite the 
 Palace Gate. In Mrs. Inchbald's day it was a college of 
 the Order of Jesuits. It was afterwards a private lunatic 
 asylum, but was taken down in 1872 to make way for the 
 grand mansion of Baron Grant, which also in its turn has 
 disappeared. 
 
 Here [Kensington House] Mrs. Inchbald spent the last two 
 Lei h years of her life ; and here on the 1st of August, 1821, 
 
 Hunt's she died, we fear how shall we say it of so excellent 
 
 Old Court . - t . ... , J 
 
 Suburb, a woman, and in the sixty-eighth year or her age ( 
 
 ap ' V1 ' of tight lacing. But she had been very handsome, was 
 still handsome, was growing fat, and had never liked to part with 
 her beauty ; who that ia beautiful does ?
 
 1794-1860.] ANNA JAMESON. 151 
 
 Mrs. Inchbald was buried in the yard of St. Mary's 
 Church, Kensington (see COLMAN, p. 62). The gravestones 
 were all removed on the destruction of the old church, and 
 no tablet to her memory is to be found in the new 
 
 ANNA JAMESON. 
 
 1794-1860. 
 
 TV TES. JAMESON came to London with her family in 
 **-*- 1803, when they settled at Hanwell on the Uxbridge 
 Road. In 1806 they were living 'in the busy region of 
 Pall Mall.' 
 
 She began her married life in Chenies Street, which runs 
 from Gower Street to Tottenham Court Road. 
 
 On her return to London after a continental tour in 1825 
 she lived for many years in the house of her sister, No. 7 
 Mortimer Street, Cavendish Square. The street has been 
 lengthened, and of course renumbered. Mrs. Jameson's 
 home was in the present Cavendish Street, a few doors 
 from the Square. 
 
 Mrs. Jameson was visiting friends at No. 51 Wimpole 
 Street in 1844, when she first met Mrs. Browning, then 
 Miss Barrett, who lived next door. 
 
 From 1851 to 1854 she lived in Bruton Street, Berkeley 
 Square. 
 
 Here she was able to collect her friends about her, and saw a 
 good deal of what may fairly be termed brilliant so- 
 ciety at the simple evening-parties which she held on AnnaJanT > e- 
 Wednesday evenings, much after the fashion of the Ko- ^ : k*** 1 
 man reunions, in which the circle of her literary friends 
 was diversified by a little admixture from the great world, and by
 
 152 DOUGLAS JEREOLD. [1803-1857. 
 
 the occasional appearance of strangers of note, Americans and 
 foreigners. 
 
 Mrs. Jameson, spending much time among the art treas- 
 ures in the Print Room of the British Museum, was in lodg- 
 ings in Conduit Street, Regent Street, in the spring of 1860 ; 
 and here in March of that year she died. 
 
 She was buried by the side of her father and mother in 
 Kensal Green. 
 
 DOUGLAS JEEEOLD. 
 
 1803-1857. 
 
 "pvOUGLAS JERROLD was born in Greek Street, Soho, 
 *^ January 3, 1803, during a visit of his mother to 
 London ; but his infancy and his youth were spent in the 
 neighborhood of the various provincial theatres of which 
 his father was manager. 
 
 After two years of life as a ship's boy, where he gathered, 
 by hard experience, the knowledge afterwards displayed in 
 his famous nautical drama, he settled in London in 1816, 
 ' in humble enough lodgings in Broad Court,' a quaint little 
 thoroughfare full of dingy old houses, running from Bow 
 Street to Drury Lane. While living here he was appren- 
 ticed to a printer in Northumberland Street, Strand. 
 
 The young printer brought home joyfully enough his first 
 
 earnings. Verv dreary was his home, with his poor 
 Life of Doug- . , " . .\, ,. 
 
 las Jen-old weak lather sitting in the chimney-corner : but there 
 
 chap 18 iU. "' was a nre i n t ^ ie boy that would light up that home ; 
 at any rate, they were very cheerful for one clay. 
 
 In 1819 he was in the establishment of a printer in 
 Lombard Street, his first employer having failed. 
 
 Xo record of Jerrold's home life in London for a number 
 of years is preserved to us. In 1829 his address was No. 4
 
 1803-1857.] DOUGLAS JERROLD. 153 
 
 Augustus Square, Regent's Park, a small two-storied, 
 countrified cottage at the junction of Park Village and 
 Augustus Street; left unaltered in 1885. In 1834 he was 
 living in Thistle Grove, Fulham Road, Chelsea, since ex- 
 tended and renumbered ; in 1835, in Michael's Grove, Bromp- 
 ton Road. In 1838 his address was Haverstock Hill. In 
 1844 he had a cottage in Park Village, East Regent's Park, 
 near Augustus Square, which forty years later was as quiet 
 and rural as a village street ; and in 1845 he went to West 
 Lodge, Lower Putney Common, where he remained eight or 
 nine years. 
 
 This study [West Lodge] is a very snug room. All about it 
 are books. Crowning the shelves are Milton and Shakspere. 
 A bit of Shakspere's mulberry tree lies on the mantel- 
 piece. Above the sofa are the 'Rent Day' and 
 'Distraining for Rent,' Wilkie's two pictures. Under j^fjj? 11 ' 
 the two prints laughs Sir Joshua's sly ' Puck,' perched 
 upon a pulpy mushroom. . . . The furniture is simple solid oak. 
 The desk has not a speck upon it. The marble shell upon which 
 the inkstand rests has no litter in it. Various notes lie in a row 
 between clips, on the table. The paper-basket stands near the 
 arm-chair, prepared for answered letters and rejected contribu- 
 tions. The little dog follows his master into his study, and lies 
 at his feet. 
 
 That cottage at Putney, its garden, its mulberry tree, its grass- 
 plot, its cheery library with Douglas Jerrold as the chief figure 
 in the scene, remains as a bright and most pleasant Eecoiiec- 
 picture in our memory. He had an almost reverential Alters by 
 fondness for books, books themselves, and said he Charles and 
 
 Mary Cow- 
 
 could not bear to treat them, or to see them treated, den Clarke : 
 with disrespect. He told us it gave him pain to see 
 them turned on their faces, stretched open, or dog's-eared, or 
 carelessly flung down, or in any way misused. He told us this, 
 holding a volume in his hand with a caressing gesture, as though 
 he tendered it affectionately and gratefully for the pleasure it 
 had given him.
 
 154 DOUGLAS JERROLD. [1803-1857. 
 
 West Lodge, still standing in 1885, was one of two semi- 
 attached houses (the other called Elm House) on the borders 
 of Lower Putney Common, between the Lower Richmond 
 Road and the River, and about a mile beyond Putney 
 Bridge. It was a spacious irregular brick house, with red- 
 tiled gabled roofs, surrounded by fine old trees, and with a 
 wide stretch of common in front. It had more the appear- 
 ance of a farm-house than a gentleman's villa. At West 
 Lodge Mrs. Caudle was created. 
 
 In 1853 Jerrold was living in Circus Road, St. John's 
 Wood, a street that has been renumbered within a few years. 
 
 Early in 1857 he removed to Kilburn Priory, St. John's 
 Wood, a short street running northerly from Maida Vale 
 to Upton Road ; and here on the 8th of June of the same 
 year he died. He was buried at Norwood, and on his 
 tombstone are inscribed the lines by his son : ' Sacred to 
 the memory of Douglas William Jerrold, born 1803, died 
 1857. An English writer whose works will keep his memory 
 green better than any epitaph.' 
 
 Jerrold's clubs were very many. Thackeray worked hard, 
 and successfully, to insure his election to the Reform, No. 
 104 Pall Mall ; but he was more frequently to be found in 
 humbler and more entertaining organizations. 
 
 Of the clubs he set afloat and gave names to within my own 
 recollection, I particularly call to mind those which he christened, 
 
 respectively, ' Hook and Eye ' and ' Our Club ; ' the for- 
 Memoriais mer holding its weekly meetings at the Albion in Rus- 
 cSF meS> seU Street . Covent Garden, and the latter at Clunn's, 
 
 in the Piazza, Covent Garden. . . . Many years before 
 this period Jerrold was an active member of a club called ' The 
 Mulberries,' which was held in the Wrekin Tavern, in the neigh- 
 borhood of Covent Garden, and in which a regulation was estab- 
 lished that ' some paper or poem or conceit bearing upon Shakspere 
 should be contributed by each member, the general title being 
 " Mulberry Leaves." '
 
 1709-1784.] SAMUEL JOHNSON. 155 
 
 The Albion Tavern, No. 26 Russell Street, Covent Garden, 
 was still in 1885 much frequented by theatrical people at all 
 hours of the day and night. Clunn's (afterwards Richard- 
 son's) Hotel, No. 1, on the Piazza, Covent Garden, is no 
 longer in existence. The site of the Wrekin Tavern was 
 No. 22 Broad Court, Bow Street, on the corner of Cross 
 Court. It Avas taken down about 1870 (see GODWIN, p. 118). 
 
 Jerrold was a member also of ' the Museum, a properly 
 modest and literary club,' established in 1847, 'at the end 
 of Northumberland Street,' Strand, of the Gratis and the 
 Rational clubs ; and he was first president of the Whittington 
 Club, which met at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, Arundel 
 Street, Strand (see JOHNSON and ROGERS). On its site the 
 Whittington Club house, No. 37 Arundel Street, now closed, 
 was afterwards built. 
 
 SAMUEL JOHNSON. 
 
 1709-1784. 
 
 story of Dr. Johnson's life, as he himself and as his 
 * friends have told it, has been so carefully and so 
 minutely recorded that no attempt will be made here to tell 
 it in any other way. His earliest experiences of London 
 were in his extreme youth. 
 
 He says, in ' An Account of the Life of Dr. Samuel John- 
 son, from his Birth to his Eleventh Year, Written by Him- 
 self : ' 
 
 This year [1712] in Lent I was taken to London to be touched 
 for the Evil by Queen Anne. My mother was at Nicholson's, 
 the famous bookseller of Little Britain. I always retained some 
 memory of this journey, although I was but thirty months old.
 
 156 SAMUEL JOHNSON. [1709-1784. 
 
 Bos well adds : 
 
 Mrs. Piozzi lias preserved his very picturesque description of 
 the scene as it remained upon his fancy. Being asked 
 Lifeof John- ^ ne coul(i remember Queen Anne, ' He had,' he said, 
 , < a confused but somehow a sort of solemn recollec- 
 tion of a lady in diamonds and a long black hood.' 
 This touch, however, was without any effect. 
 
 Johnson's next interview with royalty, when he met George 
 III. in the library of Buckingham House in 1767, Boswell 
 considers one of the most remarkable incidents of his life. 
 
 During the whole of this interview Johnson talked to his 
 
 Boswell's Majesty with profound respect, but still in his firm 
 
 'P^Si' manly manner, with a sonorous voice, and never in 
 
 that subdued tone which is commonly used at the levee 
 
 and in the drawing-room. 
 
 Buckingham House was taken down in 1825, by order of 
 George IV., and Buckingham Palace erected upon its site. 
 
 Johnson was a man of eight-and-twenty when he decided 
 to try his fortunes in London ; and he and Garrick arrived 
 here together in March, 1737. 
 
 He had a little money when he came to town, and he knew 
 how he could live in the cheapest manner. His first lodgings 
 
 were at the house of Mr. Norris, a stay-maker, in Exeter 
 Boswell's 
 
 Johnsonj Street, adjoining Catherine Street, in the Strand. ' I 
 1737, jEt. 28. ( jj ne( j ) > 8a j,j b e? i verv we u f or eightpence, with very 
 
 good company at the Pine Apple in New Street, just by : sev- 
 eral of them had travelled ; they expected to meet every day, but 
 did not know one another's names. It used to cost the rest a 
 shilling, for they drank wine ; but I had a cut of meat for six- 
 pence, and bread for a penny, and gave the waiter a penny ; so 
 that I was quite well served, nay, better than the rest, for they 
 gave the waiter nothing.' 
 
 ]S"ew Street runs from St. Martin's Lane to the junction 
 of King and Bedford Streets, but no Pine Apple exists there 
 now.
 
 1709-1784.] SAMUEL JOHNSON. 157 
 
 About this period Johnson began his labors in the estab- 
 lishment of Edward Cave, editor of the ' Gentleman's Maga- 
 zine,' at St. John's Gate, Clerkenwell, where he was engaged 
 in 1737, and where he first met Savage. 
 
 St. John's Gate, Clerkenwell, one of the oldest and most 
 interesting structures in London, had, as late as 1885, by 
 rare good fortune, been spared by the demons of impi'ove- 
 ment. The Jerusalem Tavern still stood at the east side, 
 and in its coffee-room was shown, among other interesting 
 relics, what purports to be Johnson's armchair. A bench 
 without a back or a three-legged stool was probably con- 
 sidered good enough for him when he worked for Cave. The 
 editorial and printing rooms of the ' Gentleman's Magazine' 
 were, it is said, over the street, in a room occupied in 1885 
 and for some years previously by the St. John's Ambulance 
 Association. Here Johnson toiled, and here, as is recorded 
 on the walls in large letters, ' Garrick made his essay as an 
 actor in London, 1737, in the farce of the " Mock Doctor." ' 
 
 In this same year Johnson was lodging at Greenwich ; for 
 Bos well quotes a letter from him to Cave, dated 'July 12, 
 1737, Greenwich, next door to the Golden Heart [no longer 
 standing], Church Street.' Shortly afterwards he had lodg- 
 ings in Woodstock Street, Oxford Street, and in Castle Street, 
 near Cavendish Square, in houses which, if they remain, it 
 is not possible to identify now. In Castle Street he wrote 
 ' London.' 
 
 No detailed account of his places of residence for the next 
 ten years is given by Boswell ; but in 1748 he speaks of his 
 temporary home at Hampstead. 
 
 For the gratification of posterity let it be recorded that the 
 house so dignified [by the occupancy of Johnson] was p 
 the last in Frognal, Southward, now [1818] occupied Hampstead, 
 by Benjamin Charles Stephenson, Esq. 
 
 No trace of this house now remains.
 
 158 SAMUEL JOHNSON. [1709-1784. 
 
 Johnson lived, from 1748 to 1758, at Xo. 17 Gough Square, 
 Fleet Street. Here he began the publication of the ' Ram- 
 bler,' in 1750 ; here his wife died, in 1752 ; and here he com- 
 pleted the Dictionary, published in 1755. It was in this 
 house, no doubt, that he delivered himself of the famous 
 definition of ' network ' (' anything reticulated or decus- 
 sated, at equal distances, with interstices between the inter- 
 sections '), which has ever since made the meaning and use 
 of the word so clear to the average mind. This house, still 
 standing in 1885, has been marked by a tablet of the Society 
 of Arts. 
 
 In Bolt Court he had a garden, and perhaps in Johnson's Court 
 
 and Gough Square, which we mention to show how 
 
 Hunt's tranquil and removed these places were, and convenient 
 
 f r a g tudent who wished, nevertheless, to have the 
 bustle of London at hand ; and Maitland describes 
 Johnson's and Bolt Courts iu 1739 as having ' good houses, well 
 inhabited ; ' and Gough Square he calls fashionable. 
 
 Soon after this [in 1758], Mr. Burney, during a visit to the 
 
 Capital, had an interview with him in Gough Square, where he 
 
 dined and drank tea with him, and was introduced to 
 
 BOS Well S 
 
 Johnson, the acquaintance of Mrs. Williams. After dinner Mr. 
 ' ' Johnson proposed to Mr. Burney to go up with him 
 into his garret, which, being accepted, he there found about five 
 or six Greek folios, a deal writing-desk, and a chair and a half. 
 Johnson gave to his guest the entire seat, and tottered himself on 
 one with only three legs and one arm. 
 
 I went one day searching for Johnson's place of abode. Found 
 
 with difficulty the house in Gough Square, where the 
 Note Book, Dictionary was composed. The landlord, whom Glen 
 Fronde's an( * * incidentally inquired of, was just scraping his 
 cariyie, vol. feet at the door, invited us to walk in, showed us the 
 
 garret room, etc. (of which he seemed to have the 
 obscurest tradition, taking Johnson for a schoolmaster). 
 
 On the 23d of March, 1759, Johnson wrote to Mrs. Lucy 
 Porter :
 
 170&-1784] SAMUEL JOHNSON. 159 
 
 I have this day moved my things, and you are Bos-well's 
 now to direct to me at Staple Inn [Holborn], London, f?. 1 }^ 11 ' 
 I am going to publish a little story-book [' Rasselas '1 
 which I will send you when it is out. 
 
 He retired to Gray's lun, and soon removed to chambers in 
 the luner Temple Lane [No. 1], where he lived in poverty, total 
 idlenesSj^ and the pride of literature. Mr. Fitzherbert ^j^ 
 . . . used to say that he paid a morning visit to Murphy's 
 
 ... Essay oil the 
 
 Johnson, intending from his chamber to send a letter Life and 
 to the City ; but to his great surprise he found an Samuel** 
 author by profession without pen, ink, or paper. The Johnson - 
 present Bishop of Salisbury was also among those who endeav- 
 ored, by constant attention, to soothe the cares of a mind which 
 he knew to be afflicted with gloomy apprehensions. 
 
 Johnson's house in Inner Temple Lane has since been 
 removed, giving place to the more imposing but less inter- 
 esting Johnson's Buildings, which stand upon its site. 
 
 Dr. Johnson's library was contained in two garrets over his 
 chambers [Inner Temple Lane], where Lintot, son of the cele- 
 brated bookseller of that name, had formerly his ware- BogweU . g 
 house. I found a number of good books, but very Johnson, 
 dusty and in great confusion. The floor was strewed 
 with manuscript leaves in Johnson's own handwriting, which I 
 beheld with a degree of veneration, supposing they might 
 perhaps contain portions of the ' Rambler ' or of ' Rasselas/ 
 I observed an apparatus for chemical experiments, of which 
 Johnson was all his life very fond. The place seemed to be 
 very favorable for retirement and meditation. 
 
 Beauclerc gives the following account of a visit he made 
 to Johnson in Inner Temple Lane with Madame de Bouf- 
 flers, a French lady of doubtful morality, who aspired to 
 be considered a blue-stocking. 
 
 When Madame de Boufflers was first in England [1763], she 
 was desirous to see Johnson. I accordingly went with ^^.g^g 
 her to his chambers in the Temple, where she was Johnson, 
 
 nri 1765, ^Et. 56. 
 
 entertained with his conversation for some time. v\ hen
 
 160 SAMUEL JOHNSON. [1709-1784. 
 
 our visit was over, she and I left him, and were got into Inner 
 Temple Lane, when all at once I heard a noise like thunder. 
 This was occasioned by Johnson, who, it seems, on a little recol- 
 lection had taken it into his head that he ought to have done 
 the honors of his literary residence to a foreign lady of quality, 
 and, eager to show himself a man of gallantry, was hurrying down 
 the stairs in violent agitation. He overtook us before we reached 
 the Temple Gate, and, brushing in between me and Madame de 
 Boufflers, seized her hand and conducted her to the coach. 
 
 Ozias Humphrey, R. A., an eminent painter, in a letter 
 to his brother dated September 19, 1764, and quoted by 
 Croker in his ' Johnsoniaua,' gives the following picture of 
 Johnson's life in Inner Temple Lane : 
 
 The day after I wrote my last letter to you, I was introduced 
 to Mr. Johnson by a friend. We passed through three very dirty 
 rooms to a little one that looked like an old counting-house, 
 where this great man was sat at breakfast. The furniture of this 
 room was a very large deal writing-desk, an old walnut-tree 
 table, and five ragged chairs of four different sets. I was very 
 much struck with Mr. Johnson's appearance, and could hardly 
 help thinking him a madman for some time, as he sat waving 
 over his breakfast like a lunatic. He is a very large man, and 
 was dressed in a dirty brown coat and waistcoat, with breeches 
 that were brown also (although they had been crimson), and an 
 old black wig ; his shirt collar and sleeves were unbuttoned ; hia 
 stockings were down about his feet, \vhich had on them, by way 
 of slippers, an old pair of shoes. He had not been up long when 
 we called on him, which was near one o'clock. He seldom goes 
 to bed before two in the morning ; and Mr. Reynolds [Sir Joshua] 
 tells me he generally drinks tea about an hour after he has supped. 
 We had been some time with him before he began to talk, but 
 at length he began, and, faith, to some purpose : everything he 
 says is as correct as a second edition; 'tis almost impossible to 
 argue with him, he is so sententious and so knowing. 
 
 Boswell had his first interview with Johnson in the house 
 of Mr. Thomas Davies the actor, No. 8 Russell Street,
 
 1709-1784] SAMUEL JOHNSON. 161 
 
 Covent Garden ; and he thus describes the momentous 
 event : 
 
 At last, on Monday the 16th of May [1763], when I was sitting 
 in Mr. Davies's back-parlor, after having drunk tea with him and 
 
 Mrs. Davies, Johnson unexpectedly came into the shop, 
 
 ,,,'.,. . , , . , , i ,/ Boswell's 
 
 and, Mr. Davies having perceived him through the Johnson, 
 
 glass door in the room in which we were sitting ad- 1763> " <Et ' 64< 
 vancing towards us, he announced his awful approach to me 
 somewhat in the manner of an actor in the part of Horatio, 
 when he addresses Hamlet on the appearance of his father's 
 ghost, ' Look, my lord, it comes ! ' I found that I had a very 
 perfect idea of Johnson's figure, from a portrait of him painted by 
 Sir Joshua Reynolds, soon after he had published his Dictionary, 
 in the attitude of sitting in his easy-chair in deep meditation. 
 
 Tom Davies's house still stood in 1885, but the ground 
 floor had been turned into a green-grocer's shop. 
 
 One week later, May 24, Boswell for the first time called 
 on Johnson, and ' found the Giant in his den.' 
 
 His chambers were on the first floor of No. 1 Inner Temple 
 Lane. . . . He received me very courteously ; but it must be 
 confessed that his apartment and furniture and morn- _ 
 
 - 1 . Boswell's 
 
 ing dress were sufficiently uncouth. His brown suit Johnson, 
 of clothes looked very rusty ; he had on a little old ' 
 shrivelled unpowdered wig, which was too small for his head ; 
 his shirt neck and knees of his breeches were loose, his black 
 worsted stockings ill drawn up ; and he had a pair of unbuckled 
 shoes by way of slippers. But all these slovenly peculiari- 
 ties were forgotten the moment he began to " talk. . . . He 
 told me that he generally went abroad at four in the after- 
 noon, and seldom came home till two in the morning. I took 
 the liberty to ask if he did not think it wrong to live thus, and 
 not make more use of his great talents. He owned it was a bad 
 habit. 
 
 Concerning his personal appearance and carelessness of 
 dress the following story may be told here : 
 
 11
 
 162 SAMUEL JOHNSON. [1709-1784. 
 
 In general his wigs were very shabby, and their foreparts were 
 burned away by the near approach of the candle, which his 
 Bosweii's short-sightedness rendered necessary in reading. At 
 Johnson, Streatham Mr. Thrale's butler had always a better wig 
 
 1773, Xt. 69: , , , , , , ,, ' 
 
 Note by ready, and as Jonnson passed, trom the drawmg-rooni 
 when dinner was announced, the servant would re- 
 move the ordinary wig and replace it with the newer one ; and 
 this ludicrous ceremony was performed every day. 
 
 From 1765 to 1776 Johnson lived at No. 7 Johnson's 
 Court, Fleet Street, in a house still standing in 1885, but 
 miserable in its neglected old age. Here he wrote the 
 Prologue to Goldsmith's ' Good Matured Man,' and pub- 
 lished his ' Journey to the Hebrides,' his edition of Shak- 
 spere, and a new edition of the Dictionary. Johnson's Court 
 was not so called, as has been generally supposed, because 
 of his residence in it. The name was a mere coincidence ; 
 but it gave him the opportunity of referring to himself, 
 while in Scotland with Boswell, as ' Johnson of that Ilk.' 
 
 I returned to London in February [1766], and found Dr. John- 
 son in a good house in Johnson's Court, Fleet Street 
 Bosweii's ' 
 
 Johnson, (No. 7), in which he had accommodated Miss Williams 
 
 with an apartment on the ground floor, while Mr. 
 Levett occupied his post in the garret. 
 
 To my great surprise, he asked me to dine with him on Easter 
 Day [1773]. I never supposed that he had a dinner at his house, 
 Bosweii's f r I never heard of his friends having been enter- 
 im" 80 ! 1 ' tained at his table. He told me, ' I generally have a 
 
 meat pie on Sunday ; it is baked at a public oven, 
 which is very properly allowed, because one man can attend to 
 it ; and thus the advantage is obtained of not keeping servants 
 from church to dress dinner.' ... I had gratified my curiosity 
 much in dining with Jean Jacques Rousseau while he lived in 
 the wilds of Neufchatel. I had as great a curiosity to dine with 
 Dr. Samuel Johnson in the dusty recess of a court in Fleet 
 Street. I supposed we should scarcely have knives and forks, and 
 only some strange, uncouth, ill-drest dish ; but I found every-
 
 1709-1784.] SAMUEL JOHNSON. 163 
 
 thing in very good order. We had no other company but Mrs. 
 Williams and a young woman whom I did not know. As a 
 dinner here was considered as a singular phenomenon, and as I 
 was frequently interrogated on the subject, my readers may 
 perhaps be desirous to know our bill of fare. Foote, I remember, 
 in allusion to Francis the negro, was willing to suppose that our 
 repast was black broth. But the fact was that we had a very good 
 soup, a boiled leg of lamb and spinach, a veal pie, and a rice 
 pudding. 
 
 While living in Johnson's Court he first made the ac- 
 quaintance of the Thrales (in 1765). He dined with them 
 every Thursday during the winter, at Streatham, and gained 
 in many ways by the association. Their house, Streatham 
 Place, stood in Streatham Park, on the south side of the 
 Lower Common at Streatham, Surrey, six miles from West- 
 minster Bridge. It was taken down in 1863, and no trace 
 of it remains. 
 
 Thrale's Brewery, afterwards Barclay and Perkins's, to 
 which firm Johnson, as executor, sold the buildings and the 
 business, stands in Park Street, west of the Borough High 
 Street, Southwark, covering a large plot of groxmd (see 
 SHAKSPERE). 
 
 We have often had occasion to sigh over the poverty of London 
 in the article of genuine popular legends. One beer- 
 house is among the exceptions. The workmen at Bar- London, 
 clay and Perkins's will show you [1842] a little apart- B^ r u ' : 
 ment in which, according to the tradition of the place, 
 Johnson wrote his Dictionary. Now, this story has one feature 
 of a genuine legend ; it sets chronology at defiance. 
 
 In 1776 Johnson took possession of the house No. 8 Bolt 
 Court, Fleet Street, where the rest of his life was spent. 
 
 Having arrived in London late on Friday, the 15th March 
 [1776], I hastened next morning to wait on Dr. John- Boswen s 
 son at his house, but found he was removed from Johnson, 
 Johnson's Court to Bolt Court, No. 8, still keeping to
 
 164 SAMUEL JOHNSON. [1709-1784. 
 
 his favorite Fleet Street. My reflection at the time upon this 
 change, as marked in my journal, is as follows: 'I felt a foolish 
 regret that he had left a court which bore his name; but it was 
 not foolish to be affected with some tenderness of regard for a 
 place in which I had seen him a great deal, from whence I had 
 often issued a better and a happier man than when I went in, 
 and which had often appeared to me in my imagination, while 
 I trod its pavement in the solemn darkness of the night, to be 
 sacred to wisdom and piety.' 
 
 On Wednesday, April 3 [1776], in the morning I found him 
 very busy [in Bolt Court] putting his books in order ; and as they 
 were generally very old ones, clouds of dust were 
 Johnson? flying around him. He had on a pair of large gloves 
 1776, m. 67. guc ] 1 as hedgerg use . jjis present appearance put me 
 in mind of my uncle Dr. Boswell's description of him : ' A 
 robust genius, born to grapple with whole libraries. ' 
 
 On Monday, March 19th [1781], I arrived in London, and on 
 Tuesday the 20th, met him in Fleet Street walking, or rather, 
 Boswell's indeed, moving along ; for his peculiar march is thus 
 Johnson, described in a Short Life of him published [by Kears- 
 ley] very soon after his death : ' When he walked the 
 streets, what with the constant roll of his head, and the con- 
 comitant motion of his body, he appeared to make his way by 
 that motion, independent of his feet.' That he was often much 
 stared at while he advanced in this manner may easily be be- 
 lieved ; but it was not safe to make sport of one so robust as he 
 was. Mr. Langton saw him one day, in a fit of absence, by a 
 sudden start drive the load off a porter's back, and walk forward 
 briskly without being conscious of what he had done. The 
 porter was very angry, but stood still, and eyed the huge figure 
 with much earnestness, till he was satisfied that his wisest course 
 was to be quiet and take up his burthen again. 
 
 Dr. Johnson died at Bolt Court on the 1 3th of December, 
 1784, and was buried on the 20th of the same month, in 
 Westminster Abbey. Charles Burney the younger, in a 
 letter to Dr. Parr, dated December 21, gives the following 
 account of his funeral :
 
 1709-1784.] SAMUEL JOHNSON. 165 
 
 Yesterday I followed our ever-lamented friend Dr. Johnson 
 to his last mansion. . . . He was followed to the Abbey by a 
 large troop of friends. Ten mourning-coaches were 
 ordered by the executors for those invited. Besides 
 these, eight of his friends or admirers clubbed for two 
 more carriages, in one of which I had a seat. But the 
 executor, Sir John Hawkins, did not manage things well ; for 
 there was no anthem or choir service performed, no lesson, but 
 merely what is read over every old woman that was buried by the 
 parish. Surely, surely, my dear sir, this was wrong, very wrong. 
 Dr. Taylor read the service, but so so. He lies nearly under 
 Shakspere's monument, with Garrick at his right hand, just 
 opposite the monument erected not long ago for Goldsmith by 
 him and some of his friends. 
 
 Dr. Johnson's house in Bolt Court was destroyed soon 
 after his death, but its immediate neighbors have been little 
 changed during the last hundred years. 
 
 It was to this house that the elder D'Israeli and Samuel 
 Eogers (q. v.) as young men both brought their poems, in 
 search of encouragement and advice. 
 
 Dr. Johnson for many years worshipped in the Church of 
 St. Clement Danes, Strand; and on his pew, No. 18 in 
 the North Gallery, is a brass plate bearing the following 
 inscription : 
 
 In this pew, and beside this pillar, for many years attended 
 Divine Service, the celebrated Dr. Samuel Johnson, the Philoso- 
 pher, the Poet, the great Lexicographer, the Profound Moralist, 
 and Chief Writer of his time. Born 1709. Died 1784. In 
 remembrance and honor of noble faculties, nobly employed, some 
 inhabitants of the Parish of St. Clement Danes have placed this 
 slight memorial A. D. 1851. 
 
 On the 9th of April [1773], being Good Friday, I breakfasted 
 with Johnson on tea and cross-buns. He carried me to the 
 Church of St. Clement Danes, where he had his seat ; Bosweii's 
 and his behavior was, as I had imagined to myself, 
 solemn and devout. I never shall forget the tremulous
 
 166 SAMUEL JOHNSON. [1709-1784. 
 
 earnestness with which he pronounced the awful petition of the 
 Litany : ' In the hour of death and at the day of judgment, 
 good Lord, deliver us.' 
 
 April 4, 1779, Easter Day. I rose about half an hour after 
 nine, transcribed the prayer written ^last night, and by neglecting 
 Johnson's to count time *** to lon g at breakfast, so that I came 
 Diar y, , to church at the first lesson. I attended the Litany 
 Johnson, pretty well, but in the pew could not attend the 
 
 17YO /Ft 70 
 
 Communion Sen-ice, and missed the prayer for the 
 Church Militant. ... 1 then received, I hope with earnestness ; 
 and while others received, sat down ; but thinking that posture, 
 though usual, improper, I rose and stood. ... I gave two shil- 
 lings to the plate. 
 
 Johnson was a man of many clubs, and emphatically him- 
 self, as he describes Bos well, 'a clubable man.' In his 
 Dictionary he defines a ' club 'as 'an assembly of good 
 fellows meeting under certain conditions ; ' and to a gentle- 
 man who expressed surprise at his frequent attendance at 
 some of the humble city organizations of which he was so 
 fond, he said, ' Sir, the great chair of a full and pleasant 
 club is perhaps the throne of human felicity.' 
 
 One of Johnson's earliest clubs was founded in 1748, and 
 was known as the Ivy Lane, or King's Head, Club. Sir 
 John Hawkins, in his 'Life of Johnson,' says: 
 
 The Club met weekly at the King's Head, a famous beefsteak 
 house in Ivy Lane [Paternoster Row], every Tuesday evening. 
 Thither Johnson constantly resorted, and with a disposition to 
 please and be pleased, would pass those hours in a free and 
 unrestrained interchange of sentiment which otherwise had been 
 spent at home in painful reflection. 
 
 Hawkins has mentioned the cordiality with which (in after 
 
 Bosweii's years) he insisted that such of the members of the 
 
 i7^ nS ^t.74. ^ v y Lane Club as survived should meet again and 
 
 dine together, which they did twice at a tavern and 
 
 once at his house.
 
 1709-1784.] SAMUEL JOHNSON. 167 
 
 Ivy Lane contains a few old houses, but the King's Head 
 was destroyed by fire some years ago. There was in 1885, 
 however, a public house of that name in Canon Alley, 
 St. Paul's Churchyard, and still another and much older 
 King's Head, dating back easily to Johnson's day, at No. 41 
 Newgate Street, which adjoins Queen's Head Alley, and is 
 not one hundred yards east of Ivy Lane. 
 
 The most important and long-lived of Johnson's clubs 
 was founded by him and Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1764. It 
 had no name but The Club for some years, and first met in 
 the Turk's Head Tavern, which stood then at the corner of 
 Greek and Compton Streets, Soho, but was soon after removed 
 to the neighboring Gerard Street (see GOLDSMITH, p. 123). 
 Among the original members, besides Eeynolds and John- 
 son, were Burke and Goldsmith. Later, when it was called 
 the Literary Club, George Colman (the elder), Boswell, 
 Sheridan, Garrick, and other distinguished men were 
 elected. 
 
 They met at the Turk's Head in Gerard Street, 
 
 or. i i Boswell's 
 
 Soho, one evening m every week at seven, ana gener- Johnson, 
 ally continued their conversation until a pretty late 1764> *'* 55> 
 hour. 
 
 The Club met in different taverns, usually in St. James's 
 Street after Johnson's death ; and in 1864 it celebrated its 
 centennial anniversary at the Clarendon Hotel, No. 169 New 
 Bond Street, a few doors from Grafton Street. 
 
 To another of his clubs Boswell thus alludes : 
 
 On Friday, April 6th [1781], he carried me to dine at a club 
 which, at his desire, had been lately formed at the 
 
 ' J Boswell's 
 
 Queen's Arms in St. Paul's Churchyard. He told Johnson, 
 
 1 7S1 v^t 72 
 
 Mr. Hoole that he wished to have a City Club, and 
 
 asked him to collect one ; but, said he, ' Don't let them be 
 
 patriots.' The company were to-day very sensible, well-behaved 
 
 men.
 
 168 SAMUEL JOHNSON. [1709-1784. 
 
 There is no ' Queen's Arms ' in St. Paul's Churchyard 
 now, although there was an old tavern bearing that sign at 
 the junction of Newgate Street and St. Martin's-le-Grand 
 until within a few years (see D'UBFEY, p. 97). 
 
 A short time before his death he organized a club in the 
 Essex Head Tavern, which stood at No. 40 Essex Street, 
 Strand, as late as 1885, on the corner of Devereux Court, 
 and a few doors from the site of the famous Grecian (see 
 ADDISON, p. 7). It was kept by an old servant of the 
 Thrales. The club was unpretentious; and, as Johnson 
 wrote to Eeyuolds, 'the terms are lax, and the expenses 
 light. We meet thrice a week, and he who misses forfeits 
 twopence.' Sir Joshua did not join. 
 
 Some of the rules of this club, as preserved to us, are 
 worthy of perusal : 
 
 The Club shall consist of four-and-twenty. . . . Every member 
 is at liberty to introduce a friend once a week, but not oftener. 
 . . . Every member present at the Club shall spend at least six- 
 pence ; and every member who stays away shall forfeit three- 
 pence. . . . There shall be no general reckoning, but every man 
 shall adjust his own expenses. . . . One penny shall be left by 
 each member for the waiter. 
 
 Leigh Hunt, in 'The Town,' declares that Dr. Johnson 
 was probably in every tavern and coffee-house in Fleet 
 Street ; but the Mitre was unquestionably his favorite, and 
 is now most familiarly associated with his name. 
 
 I had learned that his place of frequent resort was the Mitre 
 Tavern in Fleet Street, where he loved to sit up late. ... I 
 called on him, and we went thither at nine. We 
 jSSXr had a good supper and port-wine, of which he then 
 1763, Mi. 54. sometimes drank a bottle. The orthodox high-church 
 sound of the Mitre, the figure and manner of the celebrated 
 Samuel Johnson, the extraordinary power and precision of his 
 conversation, and the pride arising from finding myself admitted 
 to his companionship, produced a variety of sensations and a
 
 1709-1784.] SAMUEL JOHNSON. 169 
 
 pleasing elevation of mind beyond what I had ever before expe- 
 rienced. . . . We finished a couple of bottles of port, and sat till 
 between one and two o'clock in the morning. 
 At night [February, 1766] I supped with Johnson at the 
 
 Mitre Tavern, that we might renew our social inti- D 
 
 Boswells 
 
 niacy at the original place of meeting. But there was Johnson, 
 now a considerable difference in his way of living. 
 Having had an illness in which he was advised to leave off 
 wine, he had from that period continued to abstain from, it, and 
 drank only water or lemonade. 
 
 The Mitre stood at No. 39 Fleet Street. The Mitre, in 
 Mitre Court, No. 44 Fleet Street, is not the Mitre of John- 
 son and Goldsmith, although generally so considered, even 
 by Peter Cunningham, the most careful and correct of guides 
 to London. 
 
 A favorite tavern of Dr. Johnson was the famous Devil 
 Tavern of Ben Jonson's day. It stood on the site of Child's 
 Bank, !N"o. 1 Fleet Street, between the Temple Gate and 
 Temple Bar, Hunt says, ' within a door or two of Temple 
 Bar,' and was taken down, according to Hare, in 1788 
 (see BEN JONSOX, p. 175). Here in 1751 Dr. Johnson gave a 
 supper to Mrs. Charlotte Lenox, in honor of the publication 
 of her first novel, ' The Life of Harriet Stuart.' 
 
 The place appointed was the Devil Tavern ; and there, about 
 the hour of eight, Mrs. Lenox and her husband, as also the club 
 [Ivy Lane Club] to the number of near twenty, 
 
 J . J ' Hawkins's 
 
 assembled. The supper was elegant, and Johnson Life of John- 
 had directed that a magnificent hot apple-pie should son> 
 make a part of it ; and this he would have stuck with bay leaves, 
 because, forsooth, Mrs. Lenox was an authoress. . . . About five 
 [A.M.] Johnson's face shone with meridian splendor, though his 
 drink had been only lemonade. The dawn of day began to put 
 us in mind of our reckoning ; but the waiters were all so over- 
 come with sleep that it was two hours before a bill could be had, 
 and it was not until near eight that the creaking of the street 
 door gave the signal for our departure.
 
 170 SAMUEL JOHNSON. [1709-1784. 
 
 Another of Johnson's taverns was the Crown and Anchor, 
 No. 37 Arundel Street, Strand, which extended in the rear to 
 Mitford Lane. The Whittington Club met at this tavern 
 many years later (see JERROLD, p. 155) ; as did Bobus Smith's 
 ' King of Clubs ' (see ROGERS). 
 
 He frequented also the Turk's Head, No. 142 Strand, near 
 Somerset House, afterwards the house of Chapman the 
 publisher, and the first London home of ' George Eliot ' (see 
 MARY ANN EVANS, p. 98). In 1885 it was a tourist's 
 ticket-office. 
 
 At night [July 21, 1763] Mr. Johnson and I supped in a pri- 
 
 BosweU's vate room a t the Turk's Head Coffee House, in the 
 
 i763 nS JEt M Strand. ' I encourage this house,' said he ; ' for the 
 
 mistress of it is a good civil woman, and has not 
 
 much business.' 
 
 In 1763 Johnson is described as reading 'Irene' to Peter 
 Garrick, at the Fountaine Tavern, No. 103 Strand, but no 
 longer in existence. Strype describes it as ' a very fine tavern, 
 very conveniently built,' and as fronting on the Strand ' close 
 to the alley leading to Fountain Court.' Simpson's was 
 erected on its site. The name of Fountain Court was changed 
 to Savoy Buildings in the summer of 1884. He was often to 
 be found at Clifton's, in Butcher Row, behind St. Clement 
 Danes, and on the site of the front of the New Law Courts j 
 at Tom's Coffee House, No. 1 7 Russell Street, Covent Gar- 
 den, taken down in 1865 (see GIBBER, p. 55) ; at Will's, corner 
 of Bow and Russell Streets (see ADDISON, p. 7) ; at the Brit- 
 ish Coffee House, Cockspur Street 10 (see SMOLLETT) ; at the 
 Old Red Lion Tavern, St. John Street Road, Islington (see 
 GOLDSMITH, p. 125); and at the Old Baptist Head Tavern, 
 St. John's Lane, Clerkenwell (see GOLDSMITH, p. 126). There 
 is a general impression that Johnson was a frequenter of the 
 Cock, No. 201 Fleet Street 11 (see PEPYS), and of the Cheshire 
 Cheese, No. 16 Wine Office Court, Fleet Street (see GOLD-
 
 1573-74-1637.] BEN JONSON. 171 
 
 SMITH, p. 120) ; but although both of these existed before 
 his day, a careful reading of his Life by Boswell has failed 
 to discover any allusion to them. 
 
 BEN JONSON. 
 1573-74-1637. 
 
 \/f ITCH of the story of Jonson's life rests upon mere tra- 
 * dition. Contemporary authorities differ in many 
 respects in their meagre accounts of him ; and the later 
 biographers seem to agree only in doubting the statements 
 made by his contemporaries. 
 
 All that is related of Jonson in the ' History of the Wor- 
 thies of England, Endeavored by Thomas Fuller, D.D.,' and 
 in ' The Lives of Eminent Persons, by John Aubrey,' is 
 quoted here in full. 
 
 Fuller lived from 1608 to 1661 ; Aubrey, from 1626 to 
 1700. Fuller says (' Westminster,' vol. ii. ) : 
 
 Benjamin Johnson [sic] was born in this City [Westminster], 
 Though I cannot, with all my industrious inquiry, find him in 
 his cradle, I can fetch him from his long coats. When a little 
 child he lived in Hartshome Lane, near Charing Cross, where his 
 mother married a bricklayer for her second husband. He was first 
 bred in a private school in St. Martin's Church [in the Fields], 
 then in Westminster School [see CHURCHILL, p. 51]. He was 
 suitably admitted into St. John's College, in Cambridge, where 
 he continued but a few weeks for want of further maintenance, 
 being fain to return to the trade of his father-in-law. And let 
 them blush not that have, but those who have not, a lawful call- 
 ing. He helped in the structure of Lincoln's Inn, where, having 
 a trowel in his hand, he had a book in his pocket.
 
 172 BEN JONSON. [1573-74-1637. 
 
 Hartshorne Lane has since been called Northumberland 
 Street (Strand), and entirely rebuilt. 
 
 Malone, in his 'Shakspere,' says that he 'found in the 
 register of St. Martin's that a Mrs. Margaret Jonson was 
 married i in November, 1575, to Mr. Thomas Fowler,' and 
 this Margaret Jonson he believes to have been the mother 
 of Ben. The old Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields was 
 taken down in 1720. 
 
 His mother [Ben Jonson's] after his father's death, married a 
 
 bricklayer, and 't is generally sayd, that he wrought some time 
 
 with his father-in-lawe, and particularly on the garden 
 
 Aubrey s 
 
 Lives of wall of Lincoln's Inne, next to Chancery lane, and 
 Persons: that ... a bencher walking thro' and hearing him 
 repeat some Greeke verses out of Homer, discoursing 
 with him, and finding him to have a witt extraordinary, gave him 
 some exhibition to maintaine him at Trinity College in Cam- 
 bridge. . . . Then he came over into England, and acted and 
 wrote, but both ill, at the Green Curtaine, a kind of nursery, or 
 obscure play house, somewhere in ye suburbs (I think towards 
 Shoreditch or Clerkenwell). . . . Long since, in King James's 
 time, I have heard my Uncle Denver say (who knew him) that 
 he lived without Temple Barre at a Combe-maker's shop about the 
 Elephant and Castle. In his later time he lived in Westminster, 
 in the house under wch you passe as you goe out of the Church- 
 yard into the old palace, where he dyed. He lies buryed in the 
 North aisle in the path of Square Stone (the rest is lozenge) op- 
 posite to the scutcheon of Robertus de Ros, with this inscription 
 only on him, in a pavement square, blew marble, about 14 inches 
 square, 0, Rare Ben Jouson. 
 
 The Green Curtain was the Curtain Theatre, Shoreditch. 
 Its exact site it is quite impossible to determine now, although 
 Halliwell Phillipps, in his ' Illustrations of the Life of Shak- 
 spere' (London, 1874), places it 'on the south side of Holy- 
 well Lane, in or near the place called Curtain Court, which 
 was afterwards called Gloucester Row and now Gloucester
 
 1573-74-1637.] BEN JONSON. 173 
 
 Street.' It does not appear on any of the maps of London 
 of its day, and Stow simply describes it as ' standing on the 
 S. W. side [of Shoreditch] towards the Fields.' 
 
 Of the Elephant and Castle there is no trace left. It was 
 on the south side of the Strand, between Temple Bar and 
 Essex Street. The gateway to Lincoln's Inn was still stand- 
 ing in 1885 in Chancery Lane, nearly opposite Cursitor 
 Street, and bore the date 1518. 
 
 This account I received from Mr. Isaac Walton (who wrote 
 Dr. Jo Donne's Life, etc.) December 2, 1680, being then eighty- 
 seven years of age ; ' I only knew Ben Jonson, but 
 my Lord of Winton knew him very well, and sayes he Lives of 
 was in the 6th degree, that is the upermost fforme, p^ns 1 ; 
 
 hi Westminster scole, at which time his father dyed, Jonson, foot- 
 
 note, 
 and his mother married a bricklayer, who made him 
 
 (much against his will) to help in his trade. . . . My Lord of 
 Winton told me he told him he was (in his long retyrement and 
 sickness, when he saw him, which was often) much afflickted, 
 that hee had profained the scripture in his playes, and lamented 
 it with horror ; yet at that time of his long retyrement his pen- 
 tions, (so much as came in) was given to a woman that governed 
 him, with whom he lievd and dyed nere the abie in Westmin- 
 ster ; and that nether he nor she took much care for next weike, 
 and wood be sure not to want wine, of which he vsually tooke 
 too much before he went to bed if not oftner and soner. My 
 Lord tells me he knows not, but thinks he was born in West- 
 minster.' 
 
 If Jonson was in the sixth form at Westminster School 
 when his father died, his mother conld not have been the 
 Margaret Jonson the record of whose marriage in 1575 
 Mr. Malone saw in the register of St. Martin's, unless 
 Jonson was born eai'lier than 1573-74, the generally accepted 
 date. 12 The ' Biographia Britannica ' and other authorities 
 say that he was a posthumous child. 
 
 In 1598 Jonson killed 'Gabriel Spenser, the player' in a 
 duel in Hoxton Fields, Shoreditch, now marked by Hoxton
 
 174 BEN JONSON. [1573-74-1637. 
 
 Square; and he is said to have been living in 1607 in 
 Blackfriars, where the scene of the ' Alchymist ' is laid. 
 He died in 1637. 
 
 Jonson's grave was ' dug not far from Drayton's.' According to 
 the local tradition, he asked the king (Charles I.) to grant him 
 Dean Stan- a ^ avor - ' What is it 1 ' said the king. ' Give me 
 ley's West- eighteen inches of square ground.' ' Where ? ' asked 
 Abbey, the king. ' In "Westminster Abhey.' This is one 
 explanation given of the story that he was huried 
 standing upright. Another that it was with a view to his readi- 
 ness for the Resurrection. . . . This [original] stone was taken 
 up when in 1821 the nave was repaved, and was Drought back 
 from the stoneyard of the clerk of the works, in the time of 
 Dean Buckland, by whose order it was fitted into its present 
 place in the north wall of the nave. Meanwhile the original 
 spot had been marked by a small triangular lozenge, with a copy 
 of the old inscription. When, in 1849, Sir Eobert Wilson was 
 buried close by, the loose sand of Jonson's grave (to use the ex- 
 pression of the clerk of the works, who superintended the 
 operation) ' rippled in like a quicksand,' and the clerk ' saw the 
 two leg-bones of Jonson fixed bolt upright in the sand, as though 
 the body had been buried in the iipright position ; and the skull 
 came rolling down among the sand, from a position above the 
 leg-bones to the bottom of the newly made grave. There was 
 still hair upon it, and it was of red color.' It was seen once 
 more on the digging of John Hunter's grave, and it had still 
 traces of red hair upon it. 
 
 The name is spelled ' Johnson ' on the tombstone. 
 
 Jonson was also associated with the Globe Theatre, ' near 
 the Bear Gardens,' Southwark, on the grounds afterwards 
 occupied by the Brewery of Barclay and Perkins (see SHAK- 
 SPERB) ; and with its neighbor the Eose Theatre, the site 
 of which was at the north end of the short alley called Rose 
 Street in 1885. It ran from Park Street towards the Bank- 
 side, and lay between the Bear Gardens and the Southwark 
 Bridge Crossing. 
 
 I
 
 1573-74-1637.] BEN JONSON. 175 
 
 The most famous of Jonson's public resorts was the 
 Devil Tavern, which stood at No. 1 Fleet Street, between 
 the Temple Gate and Temple Bar. The banking-house 
 of the Childs was built upon its site in 1788. Here he 
 gathered together his ' boys,' and, as he himself says, ' drank 
 bad wine at the Devil.' 
 
 The first speech in my ' Catiline ' spoken to Scylla's Bengem- 
 
 -, -r't-if-ii mens Jon- 
 
 Ghost was writ after I parted with my iriends at the son, MMS. 
 Devil Tavern. I had drunk well that night, and had i>K ndat 
 brave notions. Collection. 
 
 The great room [in the Devil Tavern] was called ' The 
 Apollo ! ' Thither came all who desired to be ' sealed of the 
 tribe of Ben ; ' here Jonson lorded it with greater 
 authority than Dryden did afterwards at Will's, or ham's Hand- 
 Addison at Button's. The rules of the club, drawn 
 up in the pure and elegant Latin of Jonson and ^ 
 placed over the chimney, were, it is said, engraven 
 in marble. In the ' Tatler ' [No. 79] they are described as being 
 in gold letters ; and this account agrees with the rules them- 
 selves in gold letters, upon board still preserved in the 
 banking-house of Messrs. Child, where I had the pleasure of 
 seeing them in 1843. 
 
 A bust of Apollo and a board containing the ' Welcome 
 to the Oracle of Apollo,' taken from the Devil at the time 
 of its destruction in 1788, are still to be seen in an 
 upper hall of Child's Bank ; but the ' Rules,' as described 
 by Mr. Cunningham, are not to be found there. 
 
 Another tavern of Jonson's was the Mermaid in Cheap- 
 side, which was destroyed in the Fire of 1666. 
 
 Jonson is described as wearing a loose coachman's coat, fre- 
 quenting the Mermaid Tavern, where he drank seas of Scott's 
 Canary, then reeling home to bed, and after a profuse ^p 6 "' 
 perspiration, arising to his dramatic studies. 
 
 Shakspere, according to tradition, was a frequenter of the 
 Mermaid, and a companion there of Jonson.
 
 BEN JONSON. [1573-74-1637. 
 
 Many were the wit combats betwixt Shakspere and Ben Jon- 
 son, which two I beheld like a Spanish galleon and an English 
 man-of-war ; Master Jonson, like the former, was 
 Worthies of built far higher in learning ; solid but slow in his 
 ngan ' performances. Shakspere with the English man-of- 
 war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, 
 tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness 
 of his wit and invention. 
 
 As Fuller was but eight years old when Shakspere died, 
 his accounts of what he saw and heard of Shakspere in the 
 Mermaid are hardly to be relied upon. 
 
 The Mermaid in Bread Street, the Mermaid in Friday Street, 
 and the Mermaid in Cheap, were all one and the same. The 
 Bums's tavern situated behind had a way to it from these 
 Catalogue thoroughfares, but it was nearer to Bread Street than 
 
 of the 
 
 Beaufoy Friday Street. . . . The site of the Mermaid is clearly 
 defined from the circumstance of K. W., a haber- 
 dasher of small wares 'twixt Wood Street and Milk Street, 
 adopting the same sign, ' Over against the Mermaid Tavern 
 in Cheapside.' 
 
 Among the other public houses frequented by Jonson 
 were the Half Moon in Aldersgate Street, marked by Half 
 Moon Alley (see CONGREVE, p. 64) ; ' The Falcon near the 
 Theatre, Bankside,' marked by Falcon Dock and Falcon 
 "Wharf, Nos. 79 and 80 Bankside (see SHAKSPERE) ; and the 
 Three Cranes in the Vintry, described by Strype as being in 
 New Queen Street, and marked now by Three Cranes Lane, 
 Upper Thames Street, which runs parallel with Queen Street 
 to the east of Southwark Bridge (see PEPYS). ' The Swan 
 at Charing Cross,' of which Jonson speaks pleasantly, was 
 probably the tavern called in ' The New View of London,' 
 published in 1708, the 'Swan Inn on the N. W. side of 
 the Strand, near St. Martin's Lane End.' It has long since 
 disappeared.
 
 1795-1821.] JOHN KEATS. 177 
 
 A favorite suburban resort of Jonson was the Three 
 Pigeous in the Market Place opposite the Town Hall, then 
 the Market House, of Brentford. It was taken down some 
 years ago, and a modern gin-palace built upon its site. 
 
 JOHN KEATS. 
 
 1795-1821. 
 
 KEATS was born in London on the 29th of October, 
 1795. 
 
 His maternal grandfather, Jennings, was proprietor of a large 
 livery-stable called ' The Swan and Hoop ' on the Reco j lec . 
 Pavement in Moorfields, opposite the entrance into tions f 
 
 Writers by 
 
 Finsbury Circus. . . . Keats's father was the principal Charles and 
 servant in 'The Swan and Hoop/ a man so remark- den 1 Clarke: 
 ably fine in common sense and native respectability Keats - 
 that I perfectly remember the warm terms in which his demeanor 
 used to be canvassed by my parents after he had been to visit his 
 boys. 
 
 Keats is believed to have been born in the immediate 
 neighborhood of these stables, the exact position of which 
 cannot now positively be determined, although old maps and 
 directories have been consulted, and the memories of old in- 
 habitants of that portion of London have been severely taxed. 
 Cunningham, in his ' Hand-Book,' places the ' Swan and 
 Hoop Stables at No. 28, on the Pavement in Moorfields over 
 against the riding-school, now [1850] a public house with 
 that name.' But since Mr. Cunningham wrote, the Pave- 
 ment has been extended and renumbered, and the sign 
 ' Swan and Hoop ' is no longer to be seen. ' No. 28 on 
 the Pavement' in 1850 was a few doors from London 
 
 12
 
 178 JOHN KEATS. [1795-1821. 
 
 Wall. The riding-school oil the corner of the Pavement 
 and West Street, which leads to Finsbury Circus, standing 
 in 1885, may perhaps be that to which Mr. Cunningham 
 refers. 
 
 Keats was educated at Enfield, in the school of John 
 Clarke, father of Charles Cowden Clarke, who describes it 
 as still standing in 1878. It had already been converted 
 into a railway-station ; but the managers of the company 
 had protected the buildings, and left almost intact one of 
 the few remaining specimens of graceful English architec- 
 ture of other days. In 1885, however, nothing remained of 
 the old school but a drawing of it, preserved in the British 
 Museum. Its bricks had been used in the construction 
 of neighboring houses. The great Eastern Eailway station 
 stood upon its site. 
 
 Keats's mother died in 1810, while he was at this school ; 
 and the touching story of his grief there, of his hiding him- 
 self under his master's desk and refusing to be comforted, has 
 been related by his biographers. He left Enfield soon after 
 his first great sorrow, and studied for some time with a 
 surgeon in Edmonton, living in Church Street in a house 
 it is not possible to identify now. It was near the ' Bay 
 Cottage ' in which Charles Lamb thirty years later lived and 
 died. 
 
 Charles Cowden Clarke follows Keats from one London 
 home to another more completely than do any of his regular 
 biographers. 
 
 Keats came to town in 1815, to enter as a student at 
 St. Thomas's Hospital, then in Southwark (see AKENSIDE, 
 p. 10) ; and he thus wrote to Clarke of his earliest London 
 lodgings : 
 
 Although the Borough is a beastly place in dirt, turnings and 
 windings, yet No. 8 Dean Street is not difficult to find ; and if you 
 would run the gauntlet over London Bridge, take the first turning
 
 1795-1821.] JOHN KEATS. 179 
 
 to the right, and moreover knock at my door, which is nearly 
 opposite a meeting, you would do me a charity, which, as St. 
 Paul says, is the lather of virtues. 
 
 It is difficult enough to find No. 8 Dean Street now. 
 The railway viaduct has swept it completely away, and left 
 only a house or two in Dean Street, which runs from No. 199 
 Tooley Street, near Hay's Lane, under the railway archway, 
 towards Thomas Street. 
 
 In 1816 Mr. Clarke writes : 
 
 Keats had left the neighborhood of the Borough, and was now 
 living with his brother in apartments over the second floor of a 
 house in the Poultry, over the passage leading to the Queen's 
 Head Tavern, and opposite to one of the City Companies' Halls, 
 the Ironmongers', I believe. 
 
 The passage leading to the Queen's Arms Tavern, and 
 called Bird in Hand Court, is under the archway num- 
 bered, in 1885, 76 Cheapside, near the Poultry. It is al- 
 most directly opposite Ironmonger Lane, where stands the 
 Mercers' Hall, to which Mr. Clarke, confounding the name 
 of the hall with the name of the street, probably alludes. 13 
 
 In this lodging Keats wrote the greater part of his first 
 volume of 'Poems,' published in 1817. He was shortly 
 after the guest, for a time, of Leigh Hunt (q. v.), in Kentish 
 Town ; and letters of his to Fanny Brawne written in 1819 
 were dated from Great Smith Street, and 25 College Street, 
 now Great College Street, Westminster. No. 25 was near the 
 corner of the present Tufton Street. He also visited Hunt 
 in the Vale of Health (see HUNT, p. 148), and took lodgings 
 at Well Walk, Hampstead, ' in the first or second house on 
 the right hand going up the Heath.' Here the greater part 
 of ' Endymion ' was written. 
 
 Winding south from the Lower Heath [Hampstead] there is a 
 charming little grove in Well Walk, with a bench at the end
 
 180 JOHN KEATS. [1795-1821. 
 
 whereon I last saw poor Keats, the poet of ' The Pot of Basil,' 
 William sitting and sobbing his dying breath into a handker- 
 Northem cllie * ; S lancin g parting looks towards the quiet land- 
 Heights scape he had delighted in so much, and musine as 
 
 of London: . , . . .-. , ,, ",. . . , , 
 
 Hampstead. m his ' Ode to the Nightingale. 
 
 His memory here is perpetuated by ' Keats Corner' and 
 ' Keats Villa,' two modern houses in Well Eoad, near its 
 crossing with Well Walk, 
 
 Leigh It was on the same day, sitting on the bench in Well 
 
 LwdByron Walk (the one against the wall), that he [Keats] told 
 
 Contem- me > w ^ unaccustomed tears in his eyes, that his 
 
 poraries. heart was breaking. 
 
 Keats's Bench, so marked by a printed sign, stood at the 
 end of Well Walk next the Heath in 1885 ; but the view of 
 the quiet landscape has been spoiled by a villa opposite, 
 built after Keats's death. 
 
 The various accounts of the search for Keats's last Hamp- 
 stead home are so interesting that they are given here at 
 length : 
 
 Keats indeed took so great a liking to Hampstead, from his 
 stay at Hunt's, that he became a resident here from 1817 till he 
 
 left England in 1820. Here he wrote his ' Ode to a 
 Hand-Book Nightingale,' ' St. Agnes,' ' Isabella,' ' Hyperion,' and 
 Environs of began ^ e ' Endymion,' which he finished at Burford 
 London: Bridge. The house in which he lodged for the greater 
 
 part of the time, then called Wentworth Place, is now 
 [1876] named Lawn Bank, and is the end house but one on the 
 west side of John Street, next Wentworth House. His walks were 
 in his later months limited to the Lower, or the Middle, Heath 
 Road, the seat at the top of Well Walk being his goal or resting- 
 place. 
 
 From this time [1816] till 1820, when he left, in the last stage 
 of consumption, for Italy, Keats resided principally at Hamp- 
 stead. During most of this time he lived with his very dear 
 friend Mr. Charles Brown, a Russian merchant, in Wentworth
 
 1785-1821.] JOHN KEATS. 181 
 
 Place, Downshire Hill, by Pond Street, Hampstead. Previous to 
 this he and his brother Thomas had occupied apartments at the 
 next house to Mr. Brown's. ... By the aid of the Wil j iam 
 
 statements of Leigh Hunt and Lord Houghton. we S ^*' 8 
 
 Northern 
 
 may trace most of the scenes in which the very finest Heights of 
 poetry of Keats was written, for the noblest of his The Vale of 
 productions were all written at Hampstead. ... It H 
 is to be regretted that Wentworth Place, where Keats lodged, and 
 wrote some of his finest poetry, either no longer exists or no 
 longer bears that name. At the bottom of John Street, on the 
 left hand in descending the hill, is a villa called Wentworth 
 House. ... I made the most vigorous search in that quarter, 
 inquiring of the tradesmen daily supplying the houses there, and 
 of two residents of forty and fifty years. None of them had any 
 knowledge or recollection of Wentworth Place. 
 
 H. Buxton Forman, in the Appendix to ' The Letters of 
 John Keats to Fanny Brawne,' published in 1878, describes 
 his thorough search for Wentworth Place, and this Hamp- 
 stead home of Keats, and thus sums up the results : 
 
 The gardener of Wentworth House, of whom, among many 
 others, I have inquired for Wentworth Place, assures me very 
 positively that some fifteen or twenty years ago, when Lawn Bank 
 (then called Lawn Cottage) was in bad repair, and the rain had 
 washed nearly all the color off the front, he used to read the 
 words ' Wentworth Place ' painted in large letters beside the top 
 window at the extreme left of the old part of the house, as one 
 faces it. ... Not perfectly satisfied with this local evidence, I 
 forwarded to Mr. Severn a sketch-plan of the immediate neigh- 
 borhood, that he might identify the houses in which he visited 
 Keats and Brown, and the Brawne family. He says that Went- 
 worth House and Lawn Bank (and these two blocks only) con- 
 stituted Wentworth Place, and that it was in Lawn Bank that 
 Brown and Mrs. Brawne had their respective residences. ... It 
 will doubtless be admitted as proved that in Wentworth House 
 and Lawn Bank we have the immortalized Wentworth Place of 
 the period to which the present volume relates ; and Mr. Howitt 
 and Mr. Thome both deserve our thanks for carrying the inquiry
 
 182 CHARLES LAMB. [1775-1834. 
 
 so nearly to a satisfactory conclusion as to land the investigator, 
 one in one of the right houses and one in the other. It is true that 
 Mr. Howitt transfers his house from one side of John Street to the 
 other, and it must be noted that Mr. Thome errs in two points. 
 Lawn Bank alone was certainly not Wentworth Place ; and Keats 
 cannot be said to have lodged there, for he was certainly Brown's 
 guest. 
 
 Lawn Bank in 1885 was an irregular two-story house on 
 the south side of John Street, Downshire Hill, nearly oppo- 
 site St. John's Chapel, and next to Wentworth House. On 
 the other side is a villa called ' Keats Cottage.' It seems in 
 Keats's time to have been a semi-detached house, the 
 Brawnes occupying the western, and Charles Brown, with 
 whom Keats lived, the eastern and smaller half. It is 
 hardly visible from the road, because of thick foliage and a 
 high board fence. From this house Keats set out, in 1820, 
 for Italy, never to return. 
 
 CHARLES LAMB. 
 
 1775-1834. 
 
 '"INHERE is, in Lamb's familiar letters and in many of 
 his essays, so much that is autobiographical, and his 
 friends have so often and so fondly described him and his 
 sister in their home life, that no attempt will be made here 
 to tell Lamb's story except as he has told it himself, or as it 
 has been told by those who knew and loved him well. 
 
 He first saw the light in Crown Office Row, in the Temple, 
 in 1775. 
 
 I was born and passed the first seven years of my life in the 
 Temple. Its church, its halls, its gardens, its fountain, its river,
 
 1775-1834.] CHARLES LAMB. 183 
 
 I had almost said for in those young years what was this king 
 
 of rivers to me but a stream, that watered our pleasant places ? 
 
 these are of my oldest recollections. . . . What a tran- 
 sition for a countryman visiting London for the first EillTThe 
 time, the passing from the crowded Strand or Fleet Sfof the h ~ 
 
 Street, by unexpected avenues, into its magnificent Inner 
 
 , . , Temple, 
 
 ample squares, its classic green recesses ! What a 
 
 cheerful liberal look hath that part of it which, from three sides, 
 overlooks the greater garden ; that goodly pile of building strong, 
 albeit of Paper height, confronting with mossy contrast the 
 lighter, older, more fantastically shrouded one, named of Har- 
 court, with the cheerful Crown Office Row (place of my kindly 
 engendure), right opposite the stately stream, which washes the 
 garden-foot with her yet scarcely trade-polluted waters, and seems 
 but just weaned from her Twickenham Naiades ! A man would 
 give something to have been born in such places. 
 
 The eastern half of the block, comprising Nos. 1, 2, and 
 3 Crown Office Row, still stood in 1885 as when built in 
 1737. The western end, Nos. 4, 5, and 6, becoming unin- 
 habitable, was torn down and rebuilt in 1859-1861. 
 
 According to Fitzgerald's Memoir, Lamb went to a school 
 overlookng ' a discolored, dingy garden in the passage lead- 
 ing into Fetter Lane from Bartlett's Buildings. This was 
 close to Holborn.' It was afterward called Bartlett's Pas- 
 sage, but no trace of the school remains. 
 
 In 1782 'Charles Lamb son of John Lamb, Scrivener, and 
 of Elizabeth, his wife,' entered the school of Christ-Hospital 
 (see COLERIDGE, p. 57, and HUNT, p. 144), where he remained 
 until he was fifteen. Talfourd, in his ' Life of Lamb ' 
 (chap, i.), says : 
 
 Lamb was an amiable, gentle boy, very sensible and keenly 
 observing, indulged by his schoolfellows and by his masters on 
 account of his infirmity of speech. His countenance was mild, 
 his complexion clear brown, with an expression which might lead 
 you to think he was of Jewish descent. His <eyes were not of the
 
 184 CHARLES LAMB. [1775-1834. 
 
 same color, one was hazel, the other had specks of gray in the 
 iris, mingled as one sees red spots in the bloodstone. His step 
 was plantigrade, which made his walk slow and peculiar, adding 
 to the staid appearance of his figure. 
 
 I remember L af school, and can well recollect that he had 
 
 some peculiar advantages, which I and others of his schoolfellows 
 . had not. His friends lived in town, and were near at 
 
 Essays of 
 
 Elia = hand, and he had the privilege of going to see them 
 
 Hospital almost as often as he wished. . . . L 's governor (so 
 
 twenty 1 " we called the patron who presented him to the founda- 
 Years ago. ^ on ^ ij ve ^ j n a manner under his paternal roof. Any 
 complaint he had to make was sure of being attended to. This was 
 understood at Christ's, and was an effectual screen to him against 
 the severity of masters, or, worse, the tyranny of the monitors. 
 
 Leigh Hunt, in his ' Autobiography ' (vol. i. chap, iv.), 
 gives his recollections of Lamb when he came back to visit 
 the old familiar school scenes, as he was so fond of doing : 
 
 I have spoken of the distinguished individuals bred at Christ- 
 Hospital, including Coleridge and Lamb, who left the school not 
 long before I entered it. Coleridge I never saw until he was old. 
 Lamb I recollect coming to see the boys, with a pensive, brown, 
 handsome, and kingly face, and a gait advancing with a motion 
 from side to side, between involuntary consciousness and at- 
 tempted ease. His brown complexion may have been owing to a 
 visit in the country, his air of uneasiness to a great burden of 
 sorrow. He dressed with a Quaker-like plainness. 
 
 For a short time after quitting school (in November, 1 789) 
 Lamb was employed in the South Sea House with his 
 brother John, who is described in ' My Relations ' as James 
 Elia, and who was some twelve years his senior. 
 
 Reader, in thy passage from the Bank, where thou hast been 
 
 receiving thy half-yearly dividends (supposing thou 
 
 Elia : The art a lean annuitant like myself), to the Flower Pot, to 
 
 House. 86 * secure a place for Dalston or Shacklewell, or some 
 
 other thy suburban retreat northerly, didst thou never 
 
 observe a melancholy-looking handsome brick and stone edifice to
 
 1775-1834.] CHARLES LAMB. 185 
 
 the left, where Threadiieedle Street abuts upon Bishopsgate ? I 
 dare say thou hast often admired its magnificent portals, ever 
 gaping wide, and disclosing to view a grave court with cloisters 
 and pillars, with few or no traces of goers-in or comers-out. . . . 
 Such is the South Sea House ; at least, such it was forty years ago, 
 when I knew it, a magnificent relic. . . . Peace to the Manes 
 of the Bubble. Silence and destitution are upon thy walls, proud 
 house, for a memorial. Situated as thou art, in the very heart of 
 striving and living commerce, amid the fret and fever of specula- 
 tion, with the Bank, and the 'Change, and the India House about 
 thee, in the heyday of present prosperity, with their important 
 faces, as it were, insulting thee, their poor neiglibor out of business, 
 to the idle and merely contemplative to such as me ; old 
 house ! there is a charm in thy quiet a cessation a coolness 
 from business, an indolence almost cloistral, which is delightful. 
 
 The South Sea House was partly destroyed by fire in 
 1826. A modern South Sea House stands upon its site. It 
 fronts on Threadneedle Street. 
 
 Lamb entered the service of the East India Company, as 
 an accountant, on the 5th of April, 1792. The situation of 
 the East India House is thus described in Brayley's ' Lon- 
 don and Middlesex,' vol. iii. : ' From Nos. 12 to 21 Leaden- 
 hall Street, the East India House at the corner of No. 7 
 Leadenhall Market.' This building was taken down in 1862. 
 
 Lamb left the India House in 1825. On the 6th of April 
 he wrote to Wordsworth : 
 
 ' Here I am then, after thirty-three years of slavery sitting in 
 my own room at eleven o'clock this finest of April mornings, a 
 freed man.' And to Barton he wrote later, ' Take in 
 briefly, that for a few days I was painfully oppressed by Ltfeof r 
 so mighty a change, but it is becoming daily more nat- ^ lb 'xv 
 ural to me. ... I would not serve another seven years 
 for seven hundred thousand pounds. I have got 441 net for 
 life, sanctioned by act of Parliament, with a provision for Mary if 
 she survives me.'
 
 186 CHARLES LAMB. [1775-1834. 
 
 It is now six-and-thirty years since I took my seat at the desk. 
 Melancholy was the transition at fourteen from the abundant 
 play-time, and the frequent intervening vacations of 
 Ella : The school days, to the eight, nine, and sometimes ten 
 animated hours a day at a counting-house. But time partially 
 Man - reconciles us to anything. I gradually became con- 
 
 tent, doggedly contented, as wild animals in cages. To dissi- 
 pate this awkward feeling, I have been fain to go among them 
 once or twice since ; to visit my old desk-fellows, my co-brethren 
 of the quill, that I had left below me in the state militant. Not 
 all the kindness with which they received me could quite restore 
 to me that pleasant familiarity which I had heretofore enjoyed 
 among them. We cracked some of our old jokes, but methought 
 they went off but faintly. My old desk, the peg where I hung 
 my hat, were appropriated to another. I knew it must be, but 
 
 I could not take it kindly. D 1 take me, if I did not feel 
 
 some remorse beast, if I had not at quitting my old compeers, 
 the faithful partners of my toil for six-and-thirty years, that 
 smoothed for me, with their jokes and conundrums, the rugged- 
 ness of my professional road. 
 
 In 1795 and later, Lamb was lodging with his family at 
 No. 7 Little Queen Street, Holborn ; and here was enacted 
 that awful tragedy, on the 22d of September, 1796, which 
 clouded and saddened the life of Charles as well as Mary 
 Lamb. On the 27th of September Lamb wrote to Cole- 
 ridge : 
 
 White, or some of my friends, or the public papers, by this 
 time may have informed you of the terrible calamities that have 
 fallen on our family. I will only give you the outlines : My 
 poor, dear, dearest sister, in a fit of insanity, has been the death 
 of our own mother. I was at hand only time enough to snatch 
 the knife out of her grasp. She is at present in a madhouse, 
 from whence I fear she must be moved to a hospital. God has 
 preserved me to my senses, I eat and drink and sleep, and have 
 my judgment, I believe, very sound. My poor father was slightly 
 wounded, and I am left to take care of him and my aunt.
 
 1775-1834.] CHARLES LAMB. 187 
 
 On the 3d of October of the same year he wrote again to 
 Coleridge : 
 
 It will be a comfort to you, I know, to know that our pros- 
 pects are somewhat brighter. My poor, dear, dearest sister, the 
 unhappy and unconscious instrument of the Almighty's judgment 
 on our house, is restored to her senses ; to a dreadful sense 
 and recollection of what has past. . . . On that first evening my 
 aunt was lying insensible, to all appearance like one dying 
 my father with his poor forehead plastered over, from a wound 
 he had received from a daughter dearly loved by him, and who 
 loved him no less dearly my mother, a dead and murdered 
 corpse in the next room yet was I wonderfully supported. 
 
 Holy Trinity Church, in Little Queen Street, facing Gate 
 Street, was built upon the site of Lamb's house ; and behind 
 it, in the playground of the church school, was, in 1885, a 
 tree standing in what had undoubtedly been Lamb's back 
 garden. 
 
 Lamb, while living in Little Queen Street, freqiiented the 
 Feathers, a public house in Hand Court, Holborn, the old 
 sign of which was still, in 1885, over the archway that leads 
 into the Court (No. 58 Holborn) ; and the tavern itself, one 
 of the most curious of the old-fashioned inns to be found in 
 that part of London, was as Lamb left it. The windows 
 probably had not been washed since Lamb's time. 
 
 Another old inn with which he was familiar in those days 
 was the Salutation and Cat, No. 17 Newgate Street, near 
 Ivy Lane. Here Southey and Coleridge were often to be 
 found with him (see COLERIDGE, p. 60). In later years he 
 wrote to Coleridge : 
 
 I imagine to myself the little smoky room at the Salutation 
 and Cat, where we have sat together through the winter nighta 
 ^beguiling the cares of life with Poesy. 
 
 After the tragedy the Lambs went to Pentonville, living 
 at No. 45 Chapel Street.
 
 188 CHARLES LAMB. [1775-1834. 
 
 Also, in sifting the letters for facts and dates, I tind that Lamb 
 
 lived in Chapel Street, Pentonville, not as Talfourd and Procter 
 
 thought a few months, but three years, removing 
 
 Gilchrist's thither almost immediately after the mother's death. 
 
 Preface. ' It is a trifle, yet not without interest to the lovers of 
 
 Lamb ; for these were the years in which he met in his 
 
 daily walks, and loved but never accosted, the beautiful Quakeress 
 
 ' Hester,' whose memory is enshrined in the poem beginning, 
 
 'When maidens such as Hester die.' 
 
 No. 45 Chapel Street in 1885 was the Agricultural Hotel, 
 on the northwest corner of Liverpool Road, and almost the 
 only house in the miserable, dull, uninteresting street, that 
 seems to have been rebuilt during the present century. At 
 the time the Lambs lived there, Chapel Street was out of 
 town, and surrounded by gardens and green fields. 
 
 Lamb was back in his beloved Temple in 1800. 
 
 I live at No. 16 Mitre Court Buildings, a pistol-shot off Baron 
 
 Maseres. . . . He lives on the ground floor for convenience of the 
 
 gout ; I prefer the attic story for the air ! He keeps 
 
 Talfourd's f, ,. , , T i. -T 
 
 Life of three footmen and two maids ; I have neither maid nor 
 ciuip^vi laundress. . . . N. B. When you come to see me, 
 mount up to the top of the stairs I hope you are not 
 asthmatical and come in flannel, for it is pure airy up there. 
 And bring your glass, and I will show you the Surrey Hills. My 
 bed faces the river, so as by perking upon my haunches, and sup- 
 porting my carcass with my elbows, without much wrying my 
 neck, I can see the white sails glide by the bottom of King's 
 Bench Walk, as I lie in my bed. 
 
 The present Mitre Court Buildings bear date 1830. 
 In 1809 Lamb writes to Manning : 
 
 While I think of it, let me tell you we are moved. Don't 
 come any more to Mitre Court Buildings. We are at 
 Ltfeof 8 34 Southampton Buildings [in a house still standing 
 in 1885 1> Chancery Lane [see HAZLITT. p. 133], and 
 shall be here until about the end of May, when we
 
 1775-1834.] CHARLES LAMB. 189 
 
 remove to No. 4 Inner Temple Lane, where I mean to live and die. 
 . . . Our place of final destination I don't mean the grave, but 
 No. 4 Inner Temple Lane looks out upon a gloomy churchyard- 
 like court, called Hare Court, with three trees and a pump in it. 
 Do you know it ? I was born near it, and used to drink at that 
 pump when I was a Rechabite of six years old. 
 
 In 1810, still writing to Manning, he describes these 
 chambers : 
 
 I have two sitting-rooms : I call them so par excellence, for you 
 may stand, or loll, or lean, or try any posture in them, but they 
 are best for sitting ; not squatting down Japanese fashion, but 
 the more decorous mode which European usage has consecrated. 
 I have two of these rooms on the third floor, and five sleeping, 
 cooking, etc. rooms on the fourth floor. In my best room is a 
 choice collection of the works of Hogarth, an English painter of 
 some hunior. In my next best are shelves containing a small but 
 well-chosen library. My best room commands a court, in which 
 there are trees and a pump, the water of which is excellent cold 
 with brandy, and not very insipid without. 
 
 The house has been replaced by the modern Johnson's 
 Buildings, but the trees and the court and the pump are 
 still there. 
 
 The Lambs left the Temple in the autumn of 1817, and 
 took lodgings, as he describes them in a letter to Haydon, 
 dated in December of that year, ' at No. 20 Russell Court, 
 Covent Garden East ; half-way up, next the corner, left-hand 
 side," and, as he writes to another friend, ' in the corner 
 house delightfully situated between the two theatres.' 
 
 Russell Court, running from Drury Lane to Brydges Street, 
 does not answer this description ; while No. 20 Russell 
 Street, next to the corner of Bow Street, is * on the left-hand 
 side,' and ' between the two theatres.' This was classic 
 ground, the site of Will's Coffee House (see ADDISON, p. 7) ; 
 and it seems strange that Lamb should not have known this 
 fact, or, if he did, should not have mentioned it in any of
 
 190 CHAKLES LAMB. [1775-1834. 
 
 his letters. In November of 1817 Lamb wrote to Miss 
 Wordsworth : 
 
 Here we are, transplanted from our native soil. I thought we 
 never could have been torn up from the Temple. Indeed, it was 
 an ugly wrench, but like a tooth, now 't is out, and I 
 am easv ' We never can. strike root so deep in any 
 
 Lamb, other ground. . . . We are in the individual spot we 
 
 like best, in all this great city. The theatres with all 
 their noises ; Covent Garden, dearer to me than any gardens of Alci- 
 noiis, where we are morally sure of the earliest peas and 'spar- 
 agus ; Bow Street, where the thieves are examined, within a few 
 yards of us : Mary had not been here four-and-twenty hours 
 before she saw a thief. She sits at the window working, and, 
 casually throwing out her eyes, she sees a concourse of people 
 coming this way, with a constable to conduct the solemnity. 
 These little incidents agreeably diversify a female life. 
 
 Lamb, for the first time, lived in an entire house of his 
 own in 1823, of which he wrote to Bernard Barton on the 
 2d of September : 
 
 When you come Londonward you will find me no longer in 
 
 Covent Garden ; I have a cottage in Colebrook [properly Coin- 
 
 brook] Row, Islington ; a cottage, for it is detached ; a 
 
 Talfourd's ... i - t v T- 
 
 Life of white house with six good rooms ; the New Eiver 
 
 chap b 'xiii. (rather elderly by this time) runs (if a moderate 
 walking-pace can be so termed) close to the foot of the 
 house ; and behind is a spacious garden with vines (I assure you), 
 pears, strawberries, parsnips, leek, carrots, cabbages, to delight the 
 heart of old Alcinoiis. You enter, without passage, into a cheerful 
 dining-room, all studded over and rough, with old books ; and 
 above is a b'ghtsome drawing-room, three windows full of choice 
 prints. I feel like a great lord, never having had a house 
 before. 
 
 'I am in Colebrook Cottage, Colebrook Row, Islington,' he 
 wrote to Southey, ' close to the New River end of Colebrook 
 Terrace, left hand from Sadlers Wells.'
 
 1775-1834.] CHARLES LAMB. 191 
 
 This little three-storied house, numbered 19, was still 
 standing in 1885. The sitting-room window had been 
 altered, but nothing else. It is named Elia Cottage, and 
 in its gardens a factory has been built. The New River 
 still glides slowly by its door, but no longer is in sight, and 
 no half-blind George Dyer could walk into it to-day. En- 
 closed within brick walls, and covered by a strip of green 
 grass, it appears at intervals on its way to town, but not in 
 this portion of Colebrook Row. 
 
 During the later years of Lamb's life, when he had occa- 
 sion to spend a night in town, he lodged with Mrs. Buffam, 
 at No. 24 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in a very 
 curious stuccoed house, with a sloping tiled roof, unlike any 
 other house in that vicinity. It stood unchanged in 1885. 
 Hazlitt was his neighbor here. 
 
 In 1829 the Lambs removed to Enfield, to 'an odd-looking 
 gambogish-colored house at the Chase side.' 
 
 The situation was far from picturesque ; for the opposite side 
 of the road only presented some middling tenements, T a if 0ur( i. s 
 two dissenting chapels, and a public house decorated l fe ? f 
 with a swinging sign of a Rising Sun. chap. xvii. 
 
 In 1885 the odd-looking gambogish house on the Chase 
 side had been completely transformed and enlarged. It 
 stood on the east side of the road, and was 'The Manse' 
 (so marked on its gate-posts) of Christ's Church opposite, 
 which was built upon the site of one of the two dissenting 
 chapels. The middling tenements were called Gloucester 
 Place, and bore date 1823. They still faced the strip of 
 green that separated them from the Lambs' cottage. Sar- 
 geant Talfourd has confounded the Rising Sun public 
 house, which is some distance Londonwards, with the Crown 
 and Horse-Shoes in Lamb's more immediate neighborhood. 
 Both houses have swinging signs ; and in both, probably,
 
 192 CHARLES LAMB. [1775-1834. 
 
 Lamb passed many a pleasant hour. After leaving here, 
 the Lambs lodged for a time at an ivy-covered house 
 adjoining the Manse on the north. While Lamb is not 
 personally remembered at Enfield, old inhabitants, in 1885, 
 who knew his landlady, a Mrs. Westwood, still repeated the 
 stories she told of her odd lodgers ; and from some of them 
 was derived the information which led to this identification 
 of the houses. 
 
 In 1832 the Lambs took possession of a little cottage at 
 Edmonton, where, on the 27th of December, 1834, Charles 
 died. This house Bay Cottage, but since called Lamb's 
 Cottage still stood, in 1 885, next door to Lion House, on 
 the north side of Church Street, Edmonton, about half-way 
 between the church and the railway station, a small and 
 unpretending dwelling, lying back from the street, and but a 
 few doors from the Jolly Farmer, an old tavern with which 
 Charles was no doubt familiar. The Bell Tavern, at the 
 other end of the hamlet, in Fore Street, corner of Gilpin 
 Grove, no longer exists. On its site is a modern brick 
 building called Gilpin's Bell, because of its association with 
 John Gilpin's famous ride. To this corner Lamb, according 
 to tradition, was wont to escort his friends on their way 
 back to London. While the original Bell has disappeared, 
 the old Horse and Groom and the Golden Fleece, almost 
 adjoining it, still remain in all their ancient picturesque state ; 
 and it is hardly possible that Lamb and his companions in- 
 variably passed their doors without entering them, although 
 no record is preserved of his frequenting any but the Bell. 
 He was on his way to this tavern when he fell and received 
 the slight injury to his face which hastened his death. 
 
 Lamb was buried in the quiet little churchyard at Ed- 
 monton. A tall flat stone, with an inscription by Gary, 
 the translator of Dante, which is neither happy nor quite 
 coherent, marks the spot, which is just beyond the path
 
 1775-1834.] CHARLES LAMB. 193 
 
 on the southwest of the church. Mary Lamb, who survived 
 her brother a number of years, died in Alpha Eoad, St. 
 John's Wood, and was buried. in his grave on the 28th of 
 May, 1847. 
 
 Talfourd, in writing to Henry Crabb Eobinson, December 
 31, 1834, says: 
 
 I doubt whether Mary Lamb will ever be quite Diary of 
 herself again, so as to feel her loss with her natural Crabb 
 sensibility. She went with Ryle yesterday to the V o\^ son ' 
 churchyard, and pointed out a place where her brother chap> X1 - 
 had expressed a wish to be buried ; and the wish will be fulfilled. 
 
 Eobinson was one of the few friends of the Lambs who 
 remembered Mary after the death of Charles. There are 
 in his Diary accounts of repeated visits to her in her 
 loneliness; and when her time came he saw her laid by 
 her brother's side. 
 
 May 29, 1847. Yesterday was a painfully interesting day. 
 I attended the funeral of Mary Lamb. At nine a coach fetched 
 me. We drove to her dwelling at St. John's Wood, 
 from whence two coaches accompanied the body to Henry 
 Edmonton across a pretty country, but the heat of the RQ^SOU 
 day rendered the drive oppressive. We took refresh- V L iL . 
 ment at the house where dear Charles Lamb died, 
 and were then driven towards our homes. . . . There was no sad- 
 ness assumed by the attendants, but we all talked together with 
 warm affection of dear Mary Lamb, and that most delightful of 
 creatures, her brother Charles ; of all the men of genius I ever 
 knew, the one the most intensely and universally to be loved. 
 
 18
 
 194 WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR. [1775-1864 
 
 LETITIA E. LANDON. 
 
 1802-1838. 
 
 ' T E. L.' was born at No. 25 Hans Place, Sloane Street, 
 *"* in a house destroyed some years ago ; and received 
 her early education at No. 22 Hans Place, a few doors 
 beyond, in a house only taken down in the winter of 1884 
 (see Miss MITFORD). 
 
 In 1809 the family removed to Trevor Park, East Barnet, 
 where the happy days of her childhood were spent. In 
 1815 the Landons were living in Lewis Place, Hammersmith 
 Eoad, Fulham, and the next year at Brompton. Miss 
 Landon was frequently an inmate of her grandmother's 
 house in Sloane Street during her youth. In 1836 she 
 went into lodgings at No. 28 Upper Berkeley Street, corner of 
 Seymour Place, Connaught Square ; and here she remained 
 until her marriage in 1838 at St. Mary's Church, Wyndham 
 Place, Bryanston Square, where Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton 
 gave the bride away. 
 
 She died in Africa in the same year. 
 
 WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR. 
 
 1775-1864. 
 
 T ANDOR was in no respects a Londoner. He made 
 *-!? frequent visits to town, but was never here for any 
 length of time. One of the earliest signs of his appearance 
 in London is a letter of his, dated April 12, 1795, from
 
 1650-1692.] NATHANIEL LEE. 195 
 
 No. 38 Beaumont Street, Marylebone, on the west side, and 
 written shortly after his rustication from Oxford. In 1801 
 his address was at ' II. Brown's, Esq., No. 10 Boswell Court, 
 Carey Street.' Boswell Court ran from Carey Street to the 
 back of St. Clement's Church. It disappeared on the con- 
 struction of the New Law Courts. 
 
 Landor went to Italy in 1815, and London saw but little 
 of him after that, except on his annual visits, during the 
 later years of his life, to Gore House ' when the lilacs were 
 in bloom.' Gore House, the residence of Lady Blessiugton, 
 and so famous in its day, has disappeared. It stood very 
 near, if not exactly on, the site of the Royal Albert Hall, 
 Kensington Gore. 
 
 NATHANIEL LEE. 
 
 Circa 1650-1692. 
 
 TVTAT LEE was at Westminster School (see CHURCHILL, 
 ^ p. 51) until 1668, when he entered Trinity College, 
 Cambridge. He made his first appearance as an actor in 
 1672, as Duncan in 'Macbeth,' at the Duke's Theatre, Lin- 
 coln's Inn Fields (see DAVENANT, p. 74) ; but although, as 
 Gibber says, he was so pathetic a reader of the scenes he 
 had written himself that he moved old actors to tears, he 
 failed ignominiously as a player, and quitted the stage in 
 despair. In 1684 he was 'sent to Bedlam,' where he was 
 confined for four years. Bedlam, which is a cockney con- 
 traction for Bethlehem Hospital, stood, according to Stow, 
 ' in Bishop's Gate Ward without the City wall, between Bish- 
 opsgate Street and Moorfields . . . against London Wall on 
 the south side of the Lower Quarters of Moorfields.' Its
 
 196 NATHANIEL LEE. [1650-1692. 
 
 exact site was on the north side of London Wall, extending 
 from the present Finsbury Pavement to the present Bloom- 
 field Street, and it backed on the present Finsbury Circus. 
 It remained until the beginning of the nineteenth century, 
 when it was removed to Lambeth. 
 
 Dryden wrote as follows to Denuis : 
 
 I remember poor Nat Lee, who was then upon the very verge of 
 
 Maione's madness, yet made a sober and a witty answer to a bad 
 
 Dryden, poet who told him it was an easie thing to write like a 
 
 madman. 'No,' said he, 'it is very difficult to write 
 
 like a madman, but it is a very easie matter to write like a fool.' 
 
 Lee died in 1692; and his death, and the cause of it, 
 is thus described in the manuscript notes of William 
 Oldys, the antiquary quoted by Baker in his ' Biographia 
 Dramatica : ' 
 
 Returning one night from the Bear and Harrow in Butcher 
 Row, through Clare Market to his lodgings in Duke Street 
 [Lincoln's Inn Fields], overladen with wine, Lee fell down on the 
 ground as some say, according to others on a bulk, and was killed 
 or stifled in the snow. He was buried in the parish church of 
 St. Clement Danes ; aged about thirty-five years. 
 
 As he is known to have entered college in 1668, he must 
 have been older than thirty-five when he died twenty-four 
 years later. No trace of his grave remains in St. Clement 
 Danes ; and Butcher Row, afterwards called Pickett Street, 
 in which stood the Bear and Harrow, was wiped out of 
 existence some years ago, and the New Law Courts stand on 
 its site. It was a very narrow street, running from Ship 
 Yard to Holywell Street, by the side of St. Clement's 
 Church.
 
 1632-1704.] JOHN LOCKE. 197 
 
 JOHN LOCKE. 
 
 1632-1704. 
 
 T OCKE was sent in 1646 to Westminster School (see 
 -* ' CHURCHILL, p. 51), where he was a pupil, with Dry- 
 den, under Dr. Busby, and whei-e he remained five or six 
 years. He spent much time in Oxford and on the Conti- 
 nent ; but in 1667 he took up his residence in London in the 
 family of Lord Shaftesbury, then Lord Ashley, who lived in 
 Essex House, formerly Exeter House, on the Strand. Its 
 site is now marked by Essex Street ; and the gate with the 
 staircase to the water, at the end of the street, is the only 
 portion of the old building that remains. In 1683 Locke 
 requested that letters for him be ' left with Mr. Percivall at 
 the Black Boy in Lombard Street, or with Mr. S. Cox at the 
 Iron Key in Thames Street.' 
 
 Both of these signs had disappeared before houses in Lon- 
 don were numbered, and it is not possible to identify their 
 site. 
 
 Locke wrote portions of his ' Essay on the Human Un- 
 derstanding' at Shaftesbury's country house at Chelsea, on 
 the site of which the Workhouse belonging to St. George's, 
 Hanover Square, was built. In the gardens of this institu- 
 tion, on the south side of Fulham Road, near the upper 
 boundary of Chelsea Parish, an old yew-tree, said to have 
 been a favorite of Locke's, stood until 1883, when it was 
 taken down. The dedication to the Essay was dated from 
 Dorset Court, on the east side of Cannon Row, or Channel 
 Row, Westminster, which has since disappeared, although 
 Cunningham in his ' Hand-Book ' believes the Dorset Court 
 to have been that in Fleet Street ; and it was first ' printed
 
 198 KICHARD LOVELACE. [1618-1653. 
 
 by Eliz. Holt for Thomas Basset, at the George in Fleet 
 Street, near St. Dunstan's Church,' in 1690. He received 
 thirty pounds for the copyright. Dorset Court, Fleet Street, 
 was once the name of the present Salisbury Square. 
 
 A letter of Locke's was dated in 1694 ' Over against the 
 Plow in Lincoln's Inn Fields.' A Plough Tavern stood in 
 Plough Court, Carey Street, opposite Serle Street, until 
 the New Law Buildings wiped it out, with many other old 
 passages and courts, and was the only tavern of that name 
 in the immediate neighborhood of Lincoln's Inn Fields in 
 Locke's time. 
 
 Locke died in retirement, ten years later, in Otis Manor 
 House, no longer standing, at High Laver, Essex, and 
 was buried in a vault near the south porch of High Laver 
 Church, where there are an altar tomb and a tablet to his 
 memory. 
 
 KICHAKD LOVELACE. 
 
 1618-1658. 
 
 T OVELACE, who was, according to Wood, 'the most 
 ~' amiable and beautiful person that eye ever beheld,' 
 and who in his prime was ' much admired and adored by the 
 female sex,' received the rudiments of his education at the 
 Charter House (see ADDISON, p. 1), and left it for Oxford 
 in 1634. He saw but little of London until his later years. 
 In 1648 he was confined in the Gate House at West- 
 minster (see BURKE, p. 27), where he wrote the poem 'To 
 Althea from Prison,' containing the well-known lines upon 
 which much of his fame now rests, 
 
 ' Stone walls do not a prison make, 
 Nor iron bars a cage.'
 
 1797-1868.] SAMUEL LOVER. 199 
 
 After his release he dragged out a miserable existence in 
 London, and died in 1658. 
 
 Having consumed all his estate, he grew very melancholy 
 (which at length brought him. into a consumption), 
 became very poor hi body and purse, was the object of wood y 
 charity, went in ragged cloaths (whereas when he was oxontenses. 
 in his glory he wore cloth of gold and silver), and 
 mostly lodged in obscure and dirty places more befitting the 
 worst of beggars and poorest of servants. 
 
 He is believed to have died in Gunpowder Alley, near 
 Shoe Lane, which has been entirely rebuilt. 
 
 Aubrey says that Lovelace's death took place in a cellar hi 
 Long Acre, and adds : ' Mr. Edm. Wylde, etc., had 
 made a collection for him and given him money.' 
 
 But Aubrey's authority is not valued against Wood's. 
 
 . chap. HI. 
 
 xle is to be read like a proper gossip, whose accounts 
 
 we may pretty safely reject or believe as it suits other testimony. 
 
 Lovelace was buried in St. Bride's Church, Fleet Street, 
 ' at the west end of the church ; ' but the building was de- 
 stroyed in the Great Fire of 1666. The present St. Bride's 
 was built by Wren, and contains no memorial to the poet. 
 
 SAMUEL LOVEE. 
 
 1797-1868. 
 
 T OVER came first to London in 1834, when he lived in 
 ""^ the neighborhood of Eegent's Park, and later in Charles 
 Street, Berners Street, which was then that part of the 
 street afterwards called Mortimer Street, which fronts the 
 Middlesex Hospital.
 
 200 THOMAS BABIXGTON MACAULAY. [1800-1859. 
 
 After his long American tour (1846-1848) and return to 
 England, be settled in the more remote suburbs of Ealing, 
 Barnes, and Sevenoaks ; but he died in St. Heliers, and was 
 buried in Kensal Green. 
 
 He was a member of the Garrick Club (see THACKERAY). 
 
 THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY. 
 
 1800-1859. 
 
 A /T ACAULAY was carried to London in his infancy, and 
 spent two years with his parents in Birchin Lane, 
 Cornhill, where still remained in 1885 a few old houses, 
 no doubt standing there in the beginning of the century, 
 and as familiar to the future historian as to the merchants 
 and merchants' clerks who occupy them and pass by them 
 at the present day. In one of these which one is not 
 now known Macaulay's infancy was spent. He was car- 
 ried daily along Coruhill and Threadneedle Street to get the 
 air and sunshine in the Drapers' Garden, which, greatly 
 reduced in size, lies at the back of Drapers' Hall, and is 
 approached by Throgmorton Avenue, a private passage from 
 Throgmorton Street to London Wall. In 1885 it was a 
 bright oasis in the desert of brick and mortar ; and as long 
 as Macaulay lived, it was one of his favorite haunts (see 
 GROTE, p. 130). When Macaiilay was a lad his father moved 
 to Clapham, High Street, and took a house which was 
 described ' as roomy and comfortable, with a very small 
 garden behind, and in front a very small one indeed.' Here 
 his happy childhood was spent. This house, No. 5, The 
 Pavement, High Street, Clapham, was still standing in 1885. 
 It faced the Common, and was the seventh house towards
 
 1800-1859.] THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY. 201 
 
 the Common from the Plough lun (Xo. 156 High Street). 
 The very small garden indeed, about twenty feet square, had 
 been built upon, and contained a one-storied shop, occupied 
 by a fishmonger. The larger garden in the rear and the 
 unpretending house itself remained unchanged. 
 
 February 9. I was talking to Stephen yesterday about 
 Brougham and Macaulay. He said he had- known 
 Brougham above thirty years, and well remembers SSmSj*" 
 walking with him down to Clapham, to dine with old 1836 ' 
 Zachary Macaulay, and telling, him he would find a prodigy of 
 a boy there, of whom he must take notice. This was Tom 
 Macaulay. 
 
 Macaulay went to school at Clapham for a time; but 
 when, in 1818, the family left Clapham for London, he lived 
 with his father in Cadogan Place, Sloane Street, and later, 
 in 1823, in Great Ormond Street. 
 
 It was a large, rambling house at the corner of Lewis Place 
 [and Great Ormond Street], and was said to have been 
 the residence of Lord Chancellor Thurlow, at the time 
 when the great seal was stolen from his custody. It p 6 
 now [1876] forms the east wing of a homoeopathic 
 hospital. 
 
 Here he wrote the Essay on Milton, etc. It was still a 
 hospital in 1885. 
 
 In August, 1857, he [Macaulay] writes : ' I sent the carriage 
 home, and walked to the Museum ; passing through. Great 
 Ormond Street, I saw a bill on No. 50. I knocked, 
 was let in, and went over the house with a strange History of 
 mixture of feelings. It is more than twenty-six years ^chap' xx!' 
 since I was in it. The dining-room and the adjoining 
 room in which I once slept are scarcely changed; the same 
 coloring on the wall, but more dingy. My father's study much 
 the same ; the drawing-rooms too, except the papering ; my 
 bedroom just what it was. My mother's bedroom I had never 
 been in it since her death. I went away sad.'
 
 202 THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY. [1800-1859. 
 
 Between 1829 and 1834 Macaulay occupied chambers at 
 No. 8 South Square, Gray's Inn, in a building that has since 
 been torn down to make way for the extension of the 
 Library. 
 
 Macaulay went to India in 1 834, but returned to England 
 in 1838, when he lodged for a time at No. 3 Clai-ges Street, 
 Piccadilly, in a house still standing in 1885, and where he 
 wrote, among other things, the paper on Clive. He was 
 for a time in Great George Street, Westminster, and in 
 1840 
 
 quartered himself in a commodious set of rooms on the second 
 floor in the Albany [see BYRON, p. 32]. . . . His chambers, every 
 corner of which was a library, were comfortably, 
 Letters, vol. though not very brightly, furnished. The ornaments 
 11. c ap. ix. were jp eWj ^ u ^ choice. 
 
 In one of his letters he describes his surroundings as 
 follows : 
 
 I have taken a comfortable suite of chambers in the Albany, 
 L .. , and I hope to lead during some years a sort of life 
 Letters, vol. peculiar to my taste, college life at the West End of 
 London. I have an entrance hall, two sitting-rooms, 
 a bedroom, a kitchen, cellars, and two rooms for servants, all for 
 ninety guineas a year. 
 
 His chambers in the Albany were numbered E. 1. Here 
 he wrote the Essays on Bacon, Hastings, and Addison, the 
 ' History of England,' and published the ' Lays,' some of 
 which had been written before. 
 
 In 1856 he left the Albany for Kensington, and hired the 
 house in which the rest of his life was spent. 
 
 Holly Lodge, now [1876] called Airlie Lodge, occupies the 
 
 most secluded corner of the little labyrinth of by-roads, which, 
 
 bounded to the east by Palace Gardens and to the 
 
 Life and ' 
 
 Letters, vol. west by Holland House, constitutes the district known 
 
 ap. v. ^ Cajnden Hill. The villa for a villa it is
 
 1800-1859.] THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY. 203 
 
 stands in a long and winding lane, which, with its high back pal- 
 ing, concealing from the passer-by everything except the mass of 
 dense and varied foliage, presents an appearance as rural as 
 Streatham presented twenty years ago. The only entrance for 
 carriages was at the end of the lane farthest from Holly Lodge ; 
 and Macaulay had no one living beyond him except the Duke of 
 Argyll. 
 
 During his residence in Kensington Macaulay was a regu- 
 lar attendant at the old Church of St. Mary there (see the 
 elder COLMAN, p. 62). 
 
 He die'd at Holly Lodge on the 28th of December, 1859. 
 His attending physician, Dr. Thomas Joyce, of No. 2 Pern- 
 bridge Villas, Bayswater, in a private note dated September 
 27, 1883, says : 
 
 I have much pleasure in giving you any information in my 
 power respecting Lord Macaulay. He died in his library at 
 Holly Lodge. For some time before he had been in ill health 
 from weak heart. His servant, who had left him feeling rather 
 better, found on his return his master fainting in his chair. I 
 was quickly sent for, got him removed to his couch, where he 
 expired in a few moments. None of his family were with him. 
 His sister, Mrs. Trevelyan, arrived soon after his death, accompa- 
 nied by her son, then a very young man, but now, I believe, the 
 Irish Secretary. At the time of his seizure Lord Macaulay was 
 reading a number of the ' Cornhill Magazine,' then a new publica- 
 tion ; and, as far as my memory serves me, he was reading 
 Thackeray's ' Adventures of Philip.' 
 
 Holly Lodge is still standing [1883], and is, I believe, unaltered. 1 * 
 You will find it on the top of Campden Hill, next the Duke of 
 Argyll's [Argyll Lodge]. 
 
 He was buried, January 9, 1860, in the Abbey. 
 
 We return to the western aisle of the south transept. 
 There lies the brilliant poet and historian, who per- Dean 
 
 haps of all who have trod the floor of the Abbey, or Stanley's , 
 
 r ' Westminster 
 
 lie buried within its precincts, most deeply knew Abbey, 
 
 CllcLD IV 
 
 and felt its manifold interests, and most unceasingly
 
 204 CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE. [1563-1593. 
 
 commemorated them. Lord Macaulay rests at the foot of the 
 statue of Addison, whose character and genius none has painted 
 as he. 
 
 Macaulay was a member of the Atheneeum Club, No. 107 
 Pall Mall, and of the Literary Club, founded by Johnson 
 (see GOLDSMITH, p. 123, and JOHNSON, p. 167), to which he 
 was elected in 1839. It met then in the Thatched House 
 Tavern, No. 74 St. James's Street, on the site of the Con- 
 servative Club. 
 
 Macaulay was devoted to The Club, and rarely absent from it. 
 If redundant at times in speech and argument, this 
 
 Sir Henry 
 
 Holland's could hardly be deemed a usurpation, seeing how they 
 
 tions of a were employed. ... I well remember the blank that 
 wa8 felt b 7 us & 11 at the &csi meeting of The Club 
 after his death. 
 
 CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE. 
 
 1563-1593. 
 
 are no records of Marlowe's life in London except 
 * that he was a player at the Curtain Theatre in Holy- 
 well Lane, Shoreditch (see JONSON, p. 172), and that he was 
 killed in a disreputable brawl. 
 
 The story of Marlowe's death has been differently related, but 
 it seems now that he was killed by his rival in love. 
 
 P3.VH6 
 
 Collier's Marlowe found his rival with the lady to whom he 
 Dram2tic f "was attached, and rushed upon him ; but his antago- 
 vol^iu' Iust ' being the stronger, thrust the point of Marlowe's 
 Marlowe. own dagger into his head. The event probably oc- 
 curred at Deptford, where, according to the register of St. Nicho- 
 las Church, Marlowe was buried in June, 1593. And it is also 
 recorded that he was ' slaine by Francis Archer.'
 
 1792-1848.] FREDERICK MARRYAT. 205 
 
 The present St. Xicholas Church was erected on the site 
 of the old one, takeu down in 1697. It stands on Deptford 
 Green, west of the Dockyard, and contains no monument or 
 tablet to Marlowe. 
 
 We read of one Marlowe a Cambridge Scholler, who was a poet 
 and a filthy play-maker ; this wretch accounted that meeke 
 servant of God, Moses, to be but a conjuror, and our 
 Sweet Saviour to be but a seducer and deceiver of the derbolt of 
 people. But harken, ye brain-sicke and prophane Against 
 poets and players, that bewitch idle, eares with foolish ^^ d and 
 
 vanities, what fell upon this prophane wretch ; having Stiff-necked 
 
 a Sinners. 
 a quarrel! against one whom he met in the street in London, 
 
 London, and would have stab'd him ; but the partie ' 
 perceiving his villany prevented him with catching his hand, and 
 turning his own dagger into his braines ; and so blaspheming and 
 cursing he yeelded up his stinking breath. Marke this, ye players, 
 that live by making fools laugh at sinne and wickedness. 
 
 FEEDEEICK MAEEYAT. 
 
 1792-1848. 
 
 TV /TARRY AT was born in Westminster, and educated at a 
 ^^ private school ' in the red brick house at the upper 
 end of Baker Street, Enfield' (Ford's Enfield). From this 
 school, after repeated truant exploits, he was taken in 1806, 
 and sent to sea ; and he did not settle finally on shore until 
 1830. 
 
 In 1832 his address was No. 38 St. James's Place, St. 
 James's Street, which half a century later remained un- 
 changed; and in 1837, and again in 1839, he lodged at 
 No. 8 Duke Street, St. James's, in a house which was still 
 a lodging-house in 1885. There he wrote and published 
 ' Percival Keene.'
 
 206 FREDERICK MARRYAT. [1792-1848. 
 
 In 1841 and in after years while on his periodical visits 
 to London during the season, his letters were addressed to 
 No. 120 Pall Mall, between Trafalgar Square and Waterloo 
 Place, subsequently the site of the French Gallery. In 
 1842, however, he had a house unaltered in 1885 at 
 Xo. 3 Spanish Place, Manchester Square, and here he wrote 
 ' Masterman Ready.' 
 
 Among Marryat's suburban homes was Sussex House, 
 Hammersmith, which still stood in 1885 opposite Branden- 
 burg House, a little back from the river on the Fulham 
 Road, and facing Alma Terrace. Marryat was also a fre- 
 quent inmate of the house of his mother, at Wimbledon 
 Common. . ^ 
 
 On the borders of the Common [Wimbledon Common] are 
 
 several good houses. The most remarkable is Wim- 
 
 Hand-Book bledon House. ... In 1815 it was purchased by 
 
 Environs of Joseph Marryat, Esq., M. P. (father of the novelist), 
 
 London: an( j a ft er hi s death, in 1824, was for several years 
 
 Wimbledon. ' 
 
 the residence of his widow, who made the grounds 
 famous for rare plants and flowers. 
 
 Wimbledon House, at the southern extremity of Wim- 
 bledon Park, was left intact in 1885, but shut out from the 
 town and the Common by high walls. 
 
 The apartment he [Marryat] occupied whilst on his visits to 
 Wimbledon House, and in which he wrote, was one upon the 
 
 second story overlooking the Park ; and in this room, 
 Life and , , J A , . ' . , . . 
 
 Letters of at a table covered with an African lion's skin, and 
 
 Manyat, on a little old black leather blotting-book, worn with 
 
 V P L "-... use and replete to bursting with ruled foolscap, several 
 
 of his books were composed. His handwriting was 
 
 so minute that, the compositor having given up the task of deci- 
 
 . phering it in despair, the copyist had to stick a pin in at the 
 
 place where he left off to insure his finding it again when he 
 
 resumed his task.
 
 1620-1678.] ANDREW MARVELL. 207 
 
 Marryat is also said to have lived in a white cottage 
 called Gothic House, at the foot of the hill south of Wim- 
 bledon Common, and on the road to Kingston. It was 
 standing in 1885. 
 
 Marryat died, and was buried, at Langham in Norfolk, 
 where the later years of his life were spent. 
 
 His club was the United Service, Nos. 116 and 117 Pall 
 Mall. 
 
 ANDKEW MAEVELL. 
 
 1620-1678. 
 
 TV TARVELL does not seem to have known much of 
 * * London until 1657, when he was appointed Latin 
 Secretary, under Milton, to Oliver Cromwell, and had lodg- 
 ings in Scotland Yard, Whitehall ; and the accounts pre- 
 served to us, of his life in London, then and later, are very 
 vague. While he was sitting in the House of Commons as 
 member for Hull, he occupied poor apartments on the 
 second floor of a house in Maiden Lane, Covent Garden. 
 Here he refused, with scorn, the bribes of Charles, while he 
 had not a guinea in his pocket to pay for his daily bread. 
 Marvell's Maiden Lane house has been taken down. It was 
 next to the Bedford Head, on the site of which a modern 
 Bedford Tavern (No. 41 Maiden Lane) has been built. For a 
 number of years he occupied a small and unpretentious cot- 
 tage on Highgate Hill, north of the then Lauderdale House, 
 later the Convalescent House of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 
 and opposite Cromwell House. This cottage, in its old- 
 fashioned garden, was in existence until 1869. Part of its 
 front garden-wall still remained in 1885, with the stone
 
 208 ANDREW MARVELL. [1620-1678. 
 
 steps leading from the street, upon which tradition says the 
 poet was fond of sitting to watch the passer-by, perhaps to 
 moralize upon the actions of Nell Gwynne, his uncongenial 
 neighbor of Lauderdale House. 
 
 Marvell died at Kingston-upon-Hull, and was buried in 
 the vault of the old Church of St. Giles-in-the-Field. The 
 present church is of the eighteenth century. 
 
 Edward Thompson, the editor of MarvelTs Works, gives 
 the following account of his resting-place : 
 
 In the year 1774 I visited the grand mausoleum under the 
 Church of St. Giles, for the coffin in which Mr. Marvell was 
 placed. In this vault were deposited upwards of a thousand 
 bodies, but I could find no plate of an earlier date than 1772. 
 I do therefore suppose that the new church is built upon the 
 former burial-place. The epitaph placed on the north side of the 
 church by his grand-nephew, Mr. Robert Nettleton, is supposed 
 to be over his remains, and near to the monument of Sir Roger 
 L'Estrange. 
 
 This epitaph upon a black marble mural tablet is on the 
 north aisle of the church, opposite pews 13 and 14. The 
 gilt lettering was almost obliterated in 1885. 
 
 Marvell was a frequenter of Haycock's Ordinary, which 
 stood on the south side of the Strand, between Temple Bar 
 and the present Palsgrave Restaurant (see PRIOR), and of 
 the Rota, or Coffee Club, held 'at one Miller's' at the 
 Turk's Head in New Palace Yard. No sign of the Turk's 
 Head or of the New Palace Yard of Marvell's time now 
 remains.
 
 1584-1639.] PHILIP MASSINGER. 209 
 
 PHILIP MASSINGEE. 
 
 1584-1638. 
 
 T ITTLE is known of the personal history of Massinger, 
 "-* either in London or out of it, and his early biogra- 
 phers vary greatly in the dates they give of his birth and 
 his death. The author of the ' British Theatre ' says he was 
 born in 1578, and died in 1659 ; but the dates attached 
 hereto, taken from Anthony Wood, and the registry of the 
 church in which he was buried, are probably correct. He 
 was found dead in his bed 'in his own house, near the 
 play-house on the. bank side, South wark ' (see SHAKSPEEE), 
 and he was buried in the churchyard of St. Mary Overy, 
 afterwards St. Saviour's, Southwark, at the end of London 
 Bridge (see FLETCHER, p. 107, and GOWER, p. 126). His 
 grave is now unknown ; and the parochial register simply 
 records the interment of ' Philip Massinger, a Stranger.' 
 
 His bodie being accompanied by comedians, was 
 buried in the middle of the church yard there, com- Athena 
 monly called the Bull Heade Church yard for there ^fSSf 
 are in all four church yards belonging to that church 525- 
 on the 18th of March. 
 
 A stone in the floor of the choir of the old church has 
 had, within a few years, engraven upon it his name and the 
 date of his death, although it is an established fact that he 
 does not lie beneath it.
 
 210 JOHN MILTON. [1608-1674. 
 
 JOHN MILTON. 
 
 1608-1674. 
 
 A LTHOUGH the ' Prince of Poets ' was born and died iu 
 *^ London, received part of his education in London, was 
 married frequently in London, and lived in many houses 
 in the metropolis, there is left to-day hardly a trace of any- 
 thing that he has touched, or that is in any way associated 
 with him. Even his grave was desecrated, and the precise 
 spot in which his bones lie cannot now be discovered. 
 - He was born in Bread Street, Cheapside, at the sign of 
 the Spread Eagle (his family crest), on the 9th of Decem- 
 ber, 1608, and was baptized in the neighboring Church of 
 All Hallows. Both the house and the church were destroyed 
 in the Great Fire of 166G. Black Spread Eagle Court was 
 in 1885 covered by modern buildings ; Nos. 58 to 63 Bread 
 Street being occupied by one fii-m, who have on the top 
 floor a bust of Milton, with an inscription stating that it 
 stands on the site of the house of his birth. 
 
 All Hallows Church, on the corner of Bread and Watling 
 Streets, was rebuilt by Wren after the Fire, but was taken 
 down in 1878, and a large warehouse erected on its grounds. 
 On this is placed a tablet containing a bust of Milton, and 
 an inscription explaining its connection with the bard. The 
 tablet with the lines of Dryden so often quoted, 'Three 
 poets in three distant ages born,' etc., that adorned this 
 church, has now been placed on the outside west wall of Bow 
 Church, hard by. 
 
 Milton's christening is recorded in the register of All 
 Hallows, stiU extant: 'The XXth daye of December, 1608, 
 was baptized John, the sonne of John Milton, Scrivener.'
 
 1608-1674.] JOHN MILTON. 211 
 
 The young Milton was sent to Paul's School at an early 
 age. 
 
 When he [Milton] went to schoole, when he was very young 
 he studied very hard, and sate up very late, commonly 
 till twelve or one o'clock at night, and his father Aubreys 
 ordered the mayde to sitt up for him, and in those Eminent 
 yeares (10) composed many copies of verses which Milton. ' 
 might well become a riper age. 
 
 Paul's School was destroyed in the Great Fire also. It 
 was rebuilt soon after on the same site, on the east side 
 of St. Paul's Churchyard, between Watling Street and 
 Cheapside; but it was removed in the summer of 1884 to 
 Hammersmith Eoad, West Kensington. The building known 
 to the present generation as Paul's School, in St. Paul's 
 Churchyard, was not erected until 1823. 
 
 Saw all the towne burned, and a miserable sight of Pepys's 
 
 Diary, vol. 
 
 Paul's Church, with all the roofs fallen, and the body ii., Sept. 7, 
 of the quire fallen into St. Fayth's ; Paul's school also. 
 
 London saw but little of Milton from his sixteenth year, 
 when he was sent to Cambridge, until 1639; when, after 
 a Continental tour, he lodged in the house of one Russell, 
 a tailor in St. Bride's Churchyard. 
 
 The house, as I learned from an old and most respectable 
 inhabitant of St. Bride's Parish, was on the left hand as you 
 proceed towards Fleet Street through the avenue. It 
 
 ,, Hewitt's 
 
 was a very small tenement, very old, and was burned Houses and 
 
 down on the 24th of November, 1824, at which time British f 
 it was occupied by a hair-dresser. It was in proof ^iiton Vo1 ' : 
 of its age without party walls and much decayed. 
 The back part of the ' Punch ' office now occupies its site. These 
 lodgings were too small, and he took a garden house in Aldersgate 
 Street, situated at the end of an entry, that he might avoid the 
 noise and disturbance of the street. . . . This house was large 
 and commodious, affording room for his library and furniture. 
 Here he commenced his career of pure authorship.
 
 212 JOHN MILTON. [1608-1674. 
 
 Masson, in his interesting and valuable sketch of Milton's 
 life, prefixed to an edition of Milton's Poems published by 
 Macniillan in 1874, says : 
 
 Aldersgate Street is very different now, and not a vestige of 
 Milton's house remains ; it stood at the back of the part of the 
 street on the right hand as you go from St. Martin's-le-Grand to 
 where is now Maidenhead Court. 
 
 It seems to have been while they were living in the St. 
 Bride's Churchyard house, although the authorities differ, 
 that Milton's first wife, Mary Powell, who was the mother 
 of his daughters, and to whom he was married in 1643, 
 left her husband, on a visit to her family, and refused to 
 return. Mrs. Milton, however, met her lord again at the 
 house of a friend, 'in the lane of St. Martin's-le-Grand,' 
 besought his forgiveness on her knees, and was taken back 
 to his home, if not to his heart. 
 
 His first wife was brought up and lived where there was "a great 
 Aubrey's deal ^ company and merriment, dancing, etc., and 
 Lives of when she came to live with her husband at Mr. Rus- 
 
 Eniment 
 
 Persons : sell's in St. Bride's Churchyard, she found it very 
 solitary; no company came to her, oftentimes heard 
 his nephews beaten and cry ; this life was irksome to her, and so 
 she went to her parents. 
 
 About 1644 Milton removed to the Barbican, Aldersgate 
 Street, where he still taught school, and gave refuge to his 
 wife's relations, who were royalists, and who felt more kindly 
 towards him when they found that his was the winning side. 
 His father-in-law died in his house at Holborn in 1647. 
 
 When it is considered that Milton cheerfully opened his doors 
 to those who had treated him with indignity and breach of faith, 
 Todd's Mil- to a father who, according to the poet's nuncupative 
 ton, 1647. w j-^ never paid him the promised marriage portion 
 of a thousand pounds ; and to a mother who, according to Wood, 
 had encoxiraged the daughter in her perverseness, we cannot but
 
 1608-1674.] JOHN MILTON. 213 
 
 concede to Mr. Hayley's conclusions, that the records of private 
 life contain not a more magnanimous example of forgiveness and 
 beneficence. 
 
 Milton's house, No. 17 Barbican, was not taken down 
 until 1864. A modern warehouse occupies its site. 
 
 The house to which Milton removed was in the street called 
 Barbican, going from Aldersgate Street at right angles, and 
 
 within a walk of two or three minutes from the former 
 
 Masson's 
 
 house. As you went from Aldersgate Street it was on Memoir of 
 the right side of the Barbican. It existed entire until 
 only the other day, when one of the new city railways was cut 
 through that neighborhood. 
 
 Milton remained but a short time in the Barbican, for in 
 164647 he was to be found in a small house on Holborn, 
 ' opening backwards into Lincoln's Inn Fields,' probably be- 
 tween Great and Little Turnstiles. While Latin Secretary 
 to Cromwell he was lodged in Scotland Yard, Whitehall, and 
 also at ' one Thompson's, next door to the Bull Head Tavern 
 at Charing Cross, opening into Spring Gardens ' (see GIBBER, 
 p. 52), a short and quiet street connecting Whitehall and 
 the present Trafalgar Square with the east end of the Mall 
 and St. James's Park. He soon after took a ' pretty garden 
 house' in Petty France, Westminster. Here he lived for 
 eight years, and here losing his first wife he took to him- 
 self a second. William Howitt, in his ' Homes and Haunts 
 of British Poets,' thus describes the house in Petty France 
 as he saw it in 1868 : 
 
 It no longer opens into St. James's Park. The ancient front is 
 now its back, and overlooks the fine old, but house-surrounded, 
 garden of Jeremy Bentham. Near the top of this ancient front 
 is a stone, bearing this inscription, ' Sacred to Milton, the Prince 
 of Poets.' This was placed there by no less distinguished a man 
 than William Hazlitt, who rented the house for some years, purely 
 because it was Milton's. Bentham, when he was conducting
 
 214 JOHN MILTON. [1608-1674. 
 
 people round his garden, used to make them sometimes go down 
 on their knees to this house. The house is tall and narrow, and 
 has nothing striking about it. No doubt, when it opened into St. 
 James's Park, it was pleasant ; now it fronts into York Street, 
 which runs in. a direct line from the west end of Westminster 
 Abbey. It is No. 19. 
 
 Milton completely lost the use of his eyes in Petty France. 
 This house, afterwards No. 19 York Street, Westminster, 
 was taken down in 1877 (see HAZLITT, p. 132). Its gardens 
 form part of the lawn of Queen Anne Mansions, where was 
 still shown in 1885 an old tree said to have been planted by 
 Milton himself. 
 
 Tradition says that Milton, after the return of the Stuarts 
 in 1660, took refuge in Bartholomew Close (Duke Street, 
 Aldersgate), which is still full of old houses spared by the 
 Great Fire. Near the yard of the Church of St. Barthol- 
 omew the Great were a row of old buildings in 1885, facing 
 on Cloth Fair, from the back windows of which the poet was 
 no doubt often seen going in and out of the Close. 
 
 Milton, after the Restoration, withdrew for a time to a friend's 
 house in Bartholomew Close. By this precaution he probably 
 
 escaped the particular prosecution which was at first 
 Milton, directed against him. Mr. Warton was told by Mr. 
 
 Tyers, from good authority, that when Milton was 
 under prosecution with Goodwin, his friends, to gain time, made 
 a mock funeral for him, and that when matters were settled in 
 his favor and the affair was known, the king laughed heartily at 
 the trick. 
 
 After Milton's pardon by Charles, he took a house in 
 Holborn, 'near Red Lion Fields,' afterwards known as Red 
 Lion Square ; and later he went to Jewin Street, Aldersgate, 
 where in 1662 he married his third and last wife, who sur- 
 vived him. Jewin Street has been entirely rebuilt. 
 
 The last years of Milton's life were spent in a house in 
 Artillery Walk, Bunhill Fields, where he composed and
 
 1608-1674.] JOHN MILTON. 215 
 
 dictated to his daughters his ' Paradise Lost,' ' Paradise 
 Regained,' and 'Samson Agonistes,' and where he died in 
 1674. 
 
 Artillery Walk, Bunhill Fields, has entirely disappeared ; 
 and the nearest approach to it, in name, is Artillery Place, 
 Bunhill Row. Milton's house, 
 
 as has been ascertained with some trouble, was in that part of the 
 
 present Bunhill Row, where there is now a clump of ,, 
 
 7 _ * Massons 
 
 new houses to the left of the passenger, which turns Memoirs of 
 northward from Chiswell Street towards St. Luke's 
 Hospital and Peerless Pool. 
 
 It was on the west side of Bunhill Row, not very far from 
 Chiswell Street. 
 
 An ancient clergyman of Dorsetshire, Dr. Wright, found John 
 Milton in a small chamber hung with rusty green, sitting in an 
 elbow-chair, and dressed neatly in black ; pale but not _ 
 
 Richardson's 
 
 cadaverous ; his hands and fingers gouty and with Explanatory 
 , ,, TT -, , ... Notes, etc.. 
 
 chalk-stones. He used also to sit in a gray, coarse svo, 1734, 
 
 cloth coat, at the door of his house in Bunhill Fields, P- 1V< 
 in warm sunny weather, to enjoy the fresh air ; and so, as well as 
 in his room, received the visits of people of distinguished parts as 
 well as quality. 
 
 Milton died of the gowte struck in, the 9th or 10th of Novem- 
 ber, 1674, as appears by his apothecaryes booke. , 
 . . . He lies buried in St. Giles's, Cripplegate, upper Lives of 
 end of the chancell, at the right hand. Mem. his Persons: 
 stone is now removed ; about two yeares since [1681] MUton - 
 the two steppes to the communion table were raysed. I ghesse 
 Jo. Speed and he lie together. 
 
 There was long credited a story to the effect that Mil- 
 ton's body was disturbed and desecrated on the occasion of 
 the raising of the chancel of St. Giles's Church towards the 
 end of the eighteenth century, and that fragments of his 
 skeleton were carried off by relic-hunters ; but Mr. C. M.
 
 216 MAKY KUSSELL MITFORD. [1787-1855. 
 
 Ingleby, in his ' Shakspere's Bones' (London, 1883), thus 
 discredits the report : 
 
 On the 4th of August, 1790, according to a small volume 
 written by Philip Neve, Esq. (of which two editions were pub- 
 lished in the same year), Milton's coffin was removed and his 
 remains exhibited to the public on the 4th and 5th of that month. 
 Mr. George Stevens, the great editor of Shakspere, who justly 
 denounced the indignity intended, not offered, to the great 
 Puritan poet's remains by Royalist Landsharks, satisfied himself 
 that the corpse was that of a woman of fewer years than Milton. 
 . . . Mr. Stevens's assurance gives us good reason for believing 
 that Mr. Philip Neve's indignant protest is only good in general, 
 and that Milton's hallowed reliques still rest undisturbed within 
 their peaceful shrine. 
 
 The removing of the stone in 1679, alluded to by Aubrey, 
 renders uncertain the exact place of his burial ; and the 
 inscription in the pavement of the middle aisle near the 
 Lord Mayor's double pew, numbered 16 and 17, simply reads 
 that he 'lies near this spot.' 
 
 An elaborate monument, containing his bust, was erected 
 in the church, by public subscription, in 1862. 
 
 MAEY EUSSELL MITFOKD. 
 
 1787-1855. 
 
 TV/TARY RUSSELL MITFORD'S earliest experiences of 
 "* London, when she was eight or nine years old, were 
 not of the most cheerful kind. The family lived on the Sur- 
 rey side of Blackfriars Bridge while Dr. Mitford sought refuge 
 from his creditors within the rules of King's Bench. In 
 1798 she was sent to a school at No. 22 Hans Place, Sloane 
 Street (see Miss LANDON, p. 194), which is described, in her
 
 1787-1855.] MARY RUSSELL MITFORD. 217 
 
 ' Life and Letters,' as being then a new house, bright, clean, 
 freshly painted, and looking into a garden full of shrubs and 
 flowers. The house had been rebuilt in 1885. The garden 
 was still full of flowers, but the brightness and freshness of 
 the buildings in the little square were things of the past. 
 Here Miss Mitford remained as a scholar until 1803 ; and 
 here, and to the later home of her teachers, who were 
 her warm friends as well, at No. 33 Hans Place, she came, 
 while in London, for a number of years. During her fre- 
 quent excursions to town she lodged and visited in different 
 places. In 1818 she was a guest at Tavistock House, 
 Tavi stock Square, afterwards the home of Dickens (see 
 DICKENS, p. 84). In 1826 she wrote from No. 45 Frith 
 Street, Soho, No. 49 in 1885. In 1828, when she came 
 to London to see the first performance of 'Rienzi,' she 
 lodged at No. 5 Great Queen Street, on the north side, 
 near Lincoln's Inn Fields; and in 1834 she was at No. 
 35 Norfolk Street, Strand, in a house still standing and 
 unchanged fifty years later, where she 'held a sort of 
 drawing-room every morning,' and was lionized to her 
 heart's content. Her friends were among the leading men 
 and women in all professions and ranks. In 1836 she had 
 apartments at No. 56 Russell Square, between Bedford 
 Place and Southampton Row, where she writes : 
 
 Mr. Wordsworth, Mr. Landor, and Mr. White dined here. I 
 like Mr. Wordsworth, of all things. . . . Mr. Landor is a very 
 striking-looking person, and exceedingly clever. Also we had a 
 Mr. Browning, a young poet, and Mr. Procter and Mr. Morley, 
 and quantities more of poets ; Stanfield and Lucas were also there. 
 
 In the later years of her life Miss Mitford rarely spent a 
 night in town, coming up from Reading or Swallowfield only 
 for the day, and to see Miss Barrett or some of her intimate 
 friends. She died in 1855, and was buried in the church- 
 yard of Swallowfield, ' Our Village.'
 
 218 MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU. [1690-1762. 
 
 MAEY WORTLEY MONTAGU. 
 
 1690-1762. 
 
 T ADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU, although born 
 ** in Nottinghamshire, was christened in the Church of 
 St. Paul, Covent Garden, since rebuilt (see BUTLER, p. 29). 
 
 Her London home during her youth was in Arlington 
 Street, Piccadilly, at the house of her father, the Marquis of 
 Dorchester, afterwards Duke of Kingston, who introduced 
 her to the Kit Kat Club when it held its sittings at the 
 Cat and Fiddle in Shire Lane (see ADDISON, p. 8). Lady 
 Louisa Stuart, in Lord Wharncliffe's 'Life and Writings of 
 Lady Montagu,' gives the following account of the scene : 
 
 One day at a meeting to choose toasts for the year, a whim 
 seized him [Lord Kingston] to nominate his daughter, then not 
 eight years old, a candidate, alleging that she was far prettier than 
 any lady on their list. The other members demurred, because 
 the rules of the club forbade them to select a beauty whom they 
 had never seen. ' Then you shall see her,' cried he ; and in the 
 gayety of the moment sent orders to have her finely dressed, and 
 brought to him at the tavern, where she was received with accla- 
 mations, her claims unanimously allowed, her health drunk by 
 every one present, and her name engraved, in due form, upon a 
 drinking-glass. The company consisting of some of the most 
 eminent men in England, she went from the lap of one poet or 
 patriot or statesman to the arms of another, was feasted with 
 sweetmeats, overwhelmed with caresses, and, what perhaps al- 
 ready pleased her better than either, heard her wit and beauty 
 loudly extolled on every side. Pleasure, she said, was too poor 
 a word to express her sensations, they amounted to ecstasy. 
 Never again, through her whole life, did she pass so happy a 
 day.
 
 1690-1762.] MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU. 219 
 
 Pope, in 1717, wrote to the Montagus at 'the Piazza, 
 Covent Garden,' urging them to go to Twickenham, which 
 they did. They lived at Savile House there for some time. 
 
 On the left of the Heath Road, east of the Railway 
 bridge, is Savile House, a fine old red hrick mansion Hand-Book 
 with tall roofs, where for several years lived Lady Environs of 
 Mary Wortley Montagu, who came here to be near ^^ : 
 Pope, fast friends then, too soon to be bitter foes. enham. 
 
 This house remained in 1885 as Mr. Thorne has de- 
 scribed it. 
 
 Occasionally during these years she lived in Cavendish 
 Square. 
 
 After a long absence on the Continent, she returned to 
 London in 1761. 
 
 Lady Mary Wortley is arrived. I have seen her. I think her 
 avarice, her dirt, and her vivacity are all increased. Her dress, 
 
 like her language, is a galimatias of several countries : 
 
 , . , Covespond- 
 
 the groundwork rags, and its embroidery nastmess. ence of 
 
 She needs no cap, no handkerchief, no gown, no petti- wa 
 
 coat, no shoes. An old black laced hood represents 1762 - 
 the first ; the fur of a horseman's coat, which replaces the third, 
 serves for the second ; a dimity petticoat is deputy, and officiates 
 for the fourth ; and slippers act the part of the last. 
 
 In George Street, Hanover Square, Lady Mary Wortley Mon- 
 tagu passed some of the last months of her long life. From her 
 
 long residence on the Continent she had imbibed for- _ 
 
 ... , Jesse's 
 
 eign tastes and foreign habits ; and consequently the London, 
 
 change from the spacious magnificence of an Italian Hanover 
 palace to a small three-storied house in the neighbor- 8< i uare ' 
 hood of Hanover Square was as striking as it was disagreeable. 
 ' I am most handsomely lodged,' she said, ' for I have two very 
 decent closets and a cupboard on each floor.' 
 
 She removed to Berkeley Square in 1762, where she died 
 the same year. She was buried in Grosvenor Chapel, in 
 South Audley Street (see CHESTERFIELD, p. 50).
 
 220 THOMAS MOORE. [1779-1852. 
 
 THOMAS MOOEE. 
 
 1779-1852. 
 
 TV /TOORE first came to London in 1799 to be entered as a 
 student in the Middle Temple, and lodged for a time in 
 a front room up two pairs of stairs, at No. 44 George Street, 
 Portman Square, numbered 106 in 1885, paying six 
 shillings a week for his accommodations. In 1801 he wrote 
 to his mother from No. 46 Wigmore Street, Cavendish Square. 
 This house, since rebuilt, was on the north side, and after- 
 wards No. 40. In 1805 he was found at No. 27 Bury 
 Street, St. James's, his London home for ten or twelve 
 years. To this house he took his young wife in 1811 ; and 
 he speaks of a visit to it when he was an old man, and of 
 the associations recalled by the sight of the old familiar 
 rooms. The house had even then been renumbei'ed. It 
 was 28 in 1835, and fifty years later a new building stood 
 on its site. 
 
 A letter of Moore's dated from No. 15 Duke Street, St. 
 James's, is preserved ; and Byron in 1814 wrote to him at 
 No. 33 Bury Street (this house is also gone) ; but while in 
 town he was generally a guest at Holland House (see 
 ADDISON, p. 3), at Gore House (see LANDOR, p. 195), at 
 Lansdowne House, on the south side of Berkeley Square, or 
 at other aristocratic mansions among the lords he so dearly 
 loved. 
 
 Moore was married in the Church of St. Martin-in-the- 
 Fields, March 25, 1811 ; and in 1812, and for about a year 
 thereafter, lived at Brompton. A. J. Symington, in his 
 ' Life of Moore ' (chap, iv.), says :
 
 1779-1852.] THOMAS MOORE. 221 
 
 On Lady Day he [Moore] was so fortunate as to marry Miss 
 Bessie Dyke, a native of Kilkenny, a charming and amiable 
 young actress of considerable ability. Their house was at York 
 Place, Queen's Elms, Brompton. The terrace was isolated, and 
 opposite nursery gardens. Mrs. Moore was very domestic in 
 her tastes, and possessed much energy of character, tact, and a 
 sound judgment. 
 
 York Place, since called York Mews, is south of the 
 Fulham Road, between Church and Arthur Streets. 
 
 In 1817 Moore rented the cottage since known as Lalla 
 Rookh Cottage, where he lost a daughter. He buried her 
 in Hornsey Churchyard, not far from the spot where Rogers 
 afterwards was laid (see ROGERS). 
 
 At the foot of the hill [Muswell Hill, Middlesex], lying hack 
 on the right, is a long, low brick cottage with a ve- Thome's 
 randa in front and a lawn sloping down to a pond by Hand-Book 
 tfce roadside, which was the residence of Abraham Environs 
 Newland, cashier of the Bank of England. . . . The Muswell 
 poet Moore rented it in 1817, and his eldest daughter, Hm> 
 Anne Barbara, died here, and lies in Hornsey Churchyard. From 
 a mistaken tradition that the poem was written in it, the cottage is 
 now [1876] named Lalla Rookh Cottage ; the poem was written 
 before, but published whilst Moore lived here. The cottage will 
 be easily recognized ; it lies next to the Victoria Inn (which 
 nearly faces the entrance to the Alexandra Palace), and has ' Lalla 
 Rookh ' painted on the gate-posts. 
 
 It remained, in 1885, back of Maynard Street and Muswell 
 Hill Road. 
 
 Moore was a member of the Athenaeum, corner of Pall 
 Mall and Waterloo Place ; Brooks's, No. 60 St. James's 
 Street; and other clubs.
 
 222 SIR THOMAS MORE. [1480-1535. 
 
 HANNAH MORE. 
 
 1745-1833. 
 
 TTANNAH MORE never had a permanent home in 
 * London. She came first to town in 1774. In 1777 
 she was lodging in Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, and in 
 Gerard Street, Soho; but she was generally the guest of 
 David Garrick, or of his widow after his death in 1779, 
 in the house No. 5 Adelphi Terrace, marked as the home of 
 the great actor by the tablet of the Society of Ai-ts. With 
 the Garricks in London she is chiefly associated. Walpole 
 writes of a visit he made to her at Adelphi Terrace in 1791 ; 
 as long as Johnson lived, she was a welcome visitor at the 
 house in Bolt Court; Sir Joshua Eeynolds carried her ^> 
 see his own and other pictures ; and her popularity was 
 great. 
 
 SIR THOMAS MORE. 
 
 147^1535. 
 
 HpHOMAS MORE was born in Milk Street, Cheapside, 
 * ' the brightest star that ever shone in that Via Lac- 
 tea ' (Fuller's ' Worthies of England : More '). All traces of 
 More's Milk Street were entirely destroyed in the Great 
 Fire two centuries later. 
 
 More was educated at St. Anthony's Free School, which 
 stood, as is shown in the old maps, on the site of the Consol- 
 idated Bank, No. 52 Threadneedle Street. He afterwards 
 studied in New Inn, Wych Street, Drury Lane, adjoining 
 Clement's Inn, and is said to have lived in the Charter
 
 1480-1535.] SIR THOMAS MORE. 223 
 
 House (see ADDISON, p. 1) as a lay brother. In 1499 he 
 became a student of Lincoln's Inn, and he was appointed 
 law reader of Furnival's Inn after his admission to the bar. 
 
 From the period of More's marriage in 1507, he resided for 
 some years in Bucklersbury ; perhaps it was soon after 1514-15 
 that he purchased Crosby Place, for his advancement Kni(Tht , s 
 then became rapid. ... It is far from impossible that London, 
 this delightful work [Utopia] was written in Crosby Crosby 
 Place. In the preface we have a complete picture of Place ' 
 Sir Thomas's domestic habits about this period, and which, if it 
 does not directly apply to Crosby Place, may certainly be applied 
 to it by the mere substitution of the ' Life of Richard Third ' for 
 ' Utopia,' there being little or no doubt but the former work was 
 written within its chambers, however it may be with the latter. 
 
 Bucklersbury runs, as in More's day, from the Poultry to 
 what is now Queen Victoria Street. It is very ancient, and 
 is to be found in the maps of Saxon London. It was the 
 quarter of traders in herbs and spices, even before the 
 Norman Conquest, and until Shakspere's time ; for he makes 
 Falstaff say : 
 
 Come, I cannot cry and say thou art this and that, Merry 
 
 1-1 i- i T i t -ill Wives of 
 
 like a many 01 these lisping hawthorn buds, that come Windsor, 
 like women in men's apparel and smell like Bucklers- scene's, 
 bury in simple time. 
 
 Crosby Place, now Crosby Hall, has been ' restored ' with 
 elaborate care, and stands in Bishopsgate Street near its 
 junction with Threadneedle Street (see SHAKSPERE). 
 
 Sir Thomas More's country house was at Chelsea in Middlesex, 
 where Sr. John Danvers built his house. The chimney-piece of 
 marble, in Sr. John's chamber, was the chimney-piece 
 of Sr. Thomas More's chamber, as Sr. John himself Lives of 
 told me. Where the gate is now, adorned with two person" : 
 noble pyramids, there stood anciently a gate house More ' 
 wch was flatt on the top, leaded, from whence is a most pleasant 
 prospect of the Thames and the fields beyond ; on this place
 
 224 SIR THOMAS MORE. [1480-1535. 
 
 the Ld. Chancellor More was wont to recreate himself and 
 contemplate. 
 
 It was at More's house in Chelsea that Holbein was 
 first presented to Henry VIII. ; and, according to tradition, 
 Erasmus was also a visitor there. He says : 
 
 With him you might imagine yourself in the Academy of 
 
 Plato. But I should do injustice to his house by comparing it to 
 
 the Academy of Plato, where numbers and geometrical 
 
 Sir James figures and sometimes moral virtues were the subject 
 Maekin- J 
 
 tosh's Life of discussion ; it would be more just to call it a school 
 
 of More. , . . _, . . ,. . ,. . 
 
 and an exercise 01 the Christian religion. All its 
 inhabitants, male and female, applied their leisure to liberal 
 studies and profitable reading, although piety was their first care. 
 No wrangling, no idle word, was heard in it ; no one was idle ; 
 every one did his duty with alacrity, and not without a temperate 
 cheerfulness. 
 
 This description of More's household by Erasmus may 
 have referred to the Bucklersbury mansion, with which he 
 was also undoubtedly familiar. 
 
 The old mansion [Sir Thomas More's] stood at the north end 
 
 of Beaufort Row, extending westward at the distance of 
 Faulkner's , . - _ 
 
 Chelsea, about one hundred yards from the water-side. Some 
 
 chap* ii. fragments of the walls, doors, and windows, and parts 
 of the foundation are still [1829] to be seen adjoining 
 to the burying-ground belonging to the Moravian Society. 
 
 Till within a very few years the ground remained in a state 
 Miss that might have admitted of ascertaining the site of the 
 
 Anecdotei? nou se [Sir Thomas More's] ; but buildings have now 
 vol. i. p. 42. shut it out from search, and nought remains but the 
 name, Beaufort Eow, to tell how it was once honored. 
 
 The house Was built in 1521. In the old chronicles of 
 Chelsea it was known as Buckingham House in 1527, and 
 was called Beaufort House in 1682. It was immediately 
 facing the present Battersea Bridge, a little back from the 
 river and about where Beaufort Street now runs. It was 
 purchased by Sir Hans Sloane, and taken down in 1740.
 
 1480-1535.] SIR THOMAS MORE. 225 
 
 More was imprisoned in the Tower for thirteen months, 
 and arraigned at Westminster Hall, May 7, 1535. He 
 was beheaded on Tower Hill. 
 
 The head of Sir Thomas More was putt upon London Bridge 
 where, as trayter's heads are sett upon poles, and having re- 
 nicained some moneths there being to be cast into the T More , 3 
 Thames, because roome should be made for diverse L * fe of 
 others who hi plentiful sorte suffered martyrdome for More, 
 the same supremacie ; shortly after it was brought by 1726 ' 
 his daughter Margarett, least as she stoutly affirmed before the 
 Councill, being called before them for the same matter it should 
 be foode for fishes which she buried where she thought fittest. 
 
 After he [More] was beheaded, his trunke was interred in 
 Chelsey Church, near the middle of the south wall, , 
 
 ' Auorey s 
 where was some slight monument erected, which being Lives of 
 
 worn by time, about 1644, Sir Lawrence of PCTS^: 
 
 Chelsey (no kinne to him) at his own proper costs and More " 
 charges erected to his memorie a handsome inscription of marble. 
 
 This inscription was written by More himself, as Erasmus 
 has shown. It has several times been renewed. 
 
 In the old parish church near the river More's monument still 
 stands [1883], The church is an interesting building of the moat 
 mixed character. So far, happily, not very much hurt 
 by restorers. More made a chapel for his family tomb History of 
 at the east end of the south aisle, and put up a black y^ 01 !' 
 slab to record the fact. It has been twice ' improved,' The Western 
 and is said to have originally contained a reference to 
 his persecution of heresy, for which a blank is now left in the 
 renewed inscription, just the kind of evasion one can imagine the 
 straightforward chancellor would himself have particularly dis- 
 liked. The architectural ornaments of the monument are in what 
 was then the new Italian style. It is uncertain where -More is 
 buried. Some say here ; some say in the Tower Chapel. 
 
 His head was carried by his daughter to Canterbury, and 
 buried in the Koper Vault in St. Dunstan's Church there. 
 
 15
 
 226 ARTHUR MURPHY. [1727-1805. 
 
 AETHUE MUKPHY. 
 
 1727-1805. 
 
 A RTHUR MURPHY, Walpole's ' writing actor,' who was 
 ^^ nevertheless 'very good company/ was a clerk in a 
 banking-house ' in the City,' and an unsuccessful player. 
 
 On quitting the stage he determined to study law, was 
 refused a call by the Benchers of Gray's Inn and the 
 Temple because of his connection with the dramatic pro- 
 fession, but was admitted a barrister by the Society of 
 Lincoln's Inn in 1757. He occupied chambers at No. 1 
 New Square, Lincoln's Inn, for upwards of a quarter of a 
 century. The old house, in 1885, remained as in Murphy's 
 time. 
 
 During the latter years of his life Murphy lived at Ham- 
 mersmith, ' at the end of the Mall and on the Terrace over- 
 looking the river.' This was afterwards called Hammer- 
 smith Terrace ; and Murphy's house, the last one at the 
 west end of the row, was standing in 1885. Its back 
 windows look directly upon the Thames. 
 
 Murphy died at No. 14 Queen's Row, Knightsbridge, in a 
 house little changed in 1885, when it was No. 59 Brompton 
 Road, and was buried by the side of his mother in the 
 parish Church of St. Paul, Queen Street, Hammersmith. 
 
 Murphy was a member of the Beefsteak Society, which 
 met in his time in Covent Garden Theatre (see CHURCHILL, 
 p. 51). He frequented Tom's Coffee House, No. 17 Russell 
 Street,* Covent Garden (see GIBBER, p. 55), 'the Bedford 
 under the Piazza, Covent Garden' (see CHURCHILL, p. 51), 
 and 'George's in the Strand,' which stood at No. 213 
 Strand, near Essex Street and opposite the New Law Courts.
 
 1642-1727.] SIR ISAAC NEWTON. 227 
 
 The George Tavern was erected on its site in 1868 (see 
 SHENSTONE). 
 
 He was fond of going to The Doves (still a tavern in 
 1885), at the entrance to the Upper Mall, Hammersmith, 
 near his own house, and at the end of Hammersmith 
 Bridge (see THOMSON). 
 
 SIE ISAAC NEWTON. 
 
 1642-1727. 
 
 "VT EWTON seems to have seen little or nothing of London 
 ^ ^ until he was sent to Parliament by the University of 
 Cambridge in 1689, when he lodged 'at Mr. More's house 
 in the Broad Sanctuary at the west end of "Westminster 
 Abbey.' Here he first met John Locke. In 1693, during 
 a short stay in town, he wrote a letter from ' The Bull at 
 Shoreditch,' an inn not mentioned by Stow, Nicholson, or in 
 the ' History of Shoreditch,' and to be found on no old map. 
 In 1697, when appointed Warden of the Mint, he took 
 a house in Jermyn Street, St. James's Street, where he re- 
 mained until he went to Chelsea in 1709. In October, 1710, 
 he removed to the house afterwards numbered 35 St. Martin 
 Street, Leicester Square, where he lived for fifteen years and 
 completed the second and third editions of his ' Principia.' 
 The house was still standing in 1885, and was occupied by 
 the Sunday school of the Orange Chapel, next door. It is 
 marked by the tablet of the Society of Arts (see MME. 
 D'AKBLAY, p. 73). 
 
 After Sir Isaac Newton took up his residence in London, he 
 lived in a very handsome style, and kept his carriage, B rewster ' 3 
 with an establishment of three male and three female Life of 
 
 . , Newton, 
 
 servants. In his own house he was hospitable and chap. rix.
 
 228 SIR ISAAC NEWTON. [1642-1727. 
 
 kind, and on proper occasions he gave splendid entertainments, 
 though without ostentation or vanity. His own diet was frugal, 
 and his dress was always simple. 
 
 It was here [St. Martin's Street] that the antiquary Dr. Stukely 
 
 called one day by appointment. The servant who opened the 
 
 door said that Sir Isaac was in his study. No one was 
 
 Walford's . . 
 
 Old and New permitted to disturb him there ; but as it was near 
 vof'iii?' bis dinner-time the visitor sat down to wait for him. 
 P. 172. j n a gh or t ti me a boiled chicken under cover was 
 
 brought in for dinner. An hour passed, and Sir Isaac did not 
 appear. The doctor then ate the fowl, and, covering up the 
 empty dish, desired the servant to get another dressed for his 
 master. Before that was ready, the great man came down. He 
 apologized for his delay, and added : ' Give me but leave to take 
 my short dinner, and I shall be at your service. I am fatigued 
 and faint.' Saying this, he lifted up the cover, and without 
 emotion turned about to Stukely with a smile. ' See,' he said, 
 ' what we studious people are ; I forgot that I had dined.' 
 
 Newton died in what was then known as Pitt's Buildings, 
 Kensington, on the southeast side of Campden Hill. His 
 house, afterwards called Obeli's Buildings, was for a time 
 known as Newton House. In 1885 it was at the north end 
 of Bullingham House, and formed a portion of Kensington 
 College, the entrance to which was at No. 15 Pitt Street. 
 The gardens and the house were intact. A rear entrance 
 next to the old George Tavern, Church Street, near Campden 
 Grove, and in the stable-yards to the inn, had but lately 
 been closed. 
 
 He went into London and presided at the Royal Society for 
 
 the last time on the 2d of .March, 1727. The fatigue brought 
 
 on a paroxysm of his complaint. He lingered in 
 
 Taylor's much pain, affectionately tended by his beloved niece 
 
 Square** till the morning of Monday the 20th, when he 
 
 died, in the eighty-fifth year of his age, the highest 
 
 of all human intelligence, till now.
 
 1651-1685.] THOMAS OTWAY. 229 
 
 The Royal Society, during Newton's presidency and for 
 many years afterwards, met in a house in Crane Court, 
 Fleet Street. On its site was a modern but picturesque 
 turreted red brick building occupied by the Scottish Cor- 
 poration in 1885. 
 
 On March 28/1727, the body of Sir Isaac Newton, after lying 
 in state in the Jerusalem Chamber, where it had been brought 
 from his death-bed in Kensington, was attended 
 
 by the leading members of the Royal Society, and Stanley's 
 i T IT A ^1 j. f e ii. Westminster 
 
 buned at the public cost in the spot in iront 01 the Abbey, 
 choir, which, being one of the most conspicuous in chap ' 1V- 
 the Abbey, had been previously refused to various noblemen who 
 had applied for it. 
 
 Sir Isaac, after the meetings of the Royal Society, is 
 known to have visited the Grecian, Devereux Court, Strand, 
 on the site of the present Eldon Chambers (see ADDISON, 
 p. 7). 
 
 THOMAS OTWAY. 
 
 1C51-1685 
 
 that Otway's life in London was generally 
 - ' ' disreputable, little is recorded of it. The low ale- 
 house in which he perished miserably is the only spot men- 
 tioned as being in any way positively associated with him, 
 and only the name of that is known now. His first and 
 last appearance upon the stage as a player was made in the 
 Dorset Garden Theatre, Salisbury Coiart, Fleet Street, in 
 1672. It stood behind the present Salisbury Square, and 
 between Hutton Street, formerly Wilderness Lane, Dorset 
 Street, and the Thames. Dorset Street and Dorset Build- 
 ings perpetuate its name.
 
 230 THOMAS OTWAY. [1651-1685. 
 
 In this play [The Jealous Bridegroom] Mr. Otway, the poet, 
 
 having an inclination to turn actor, Mr. Behn gave him 
 
 Roschis 8 the King in the play for a probation part ; but he, 
 
 Anghcanus, being not used to the stage, the full house put him to 
 
 such a sweat and tremendous agony, that being dash't 
 
 spoilt him for an actor. 
 
 Dryden and Otway were contemporaries, and lived, it is said, 
 for some time opposite each, other in Fetter Lane. One 
 Waiford's morning the latter happened to call upon his brother 
 ow ana New b arc i about breakfast-tinie. but was told by his ser- 
 
 London, 
 
 vol. i. vant that his master was gone to breakfast with the 
 
 Earl of Pembroke. ' Very well, 1 said Otway, ' tell 
 your master that I will call to-morrow morning.' Accordingly he 
 called about the same hour. ' Well, is your master at home now? ' 
 'No, sir, he is just gone to breakfast with the Duke of Bucking- 
 ham.' ' The d 1 he is ! ' said Otway ; and, actuated either by 
 
 envy, pride, or disappointment, in a kind of involuntary manner 
 he took up a piece of chalk which lay on a table and wrote over 
 the door, 
 
 ' Here lives Dryden, a poet and a wit." 
 
 The next morning Dryden recognized the handwriting, and 
 told the servant to go to Otway and desire his company to break- 
 fast with him ; in the mean time to Otway's line of 
 
 ' Here lives Dryden, a poet and a wit,' 
 he added, 
 
 ' This was written by Otway, opposit.' 
 
 When Otway arrived he saw this line linked with a rhyme, and, 
 being a man of rather petulant disposition, he took it in dudgeon, 
 and, turning upon his heel, told Dryden he was welcome to keep 
 his wit and his breakfast to himself. 
 
 Otway's house, if he did live in Fetter Lane, which is 
 merely traditional, must have been opposite the house 
 said to have been occupied by Dryden, and in the grounds 
 of the present Record Office (see DRYDEN, p. 93). 
 
 Otway died on the 14th of April, 1685.
 
 1644-1718.] WILLIAM PENN. 231 
 
 Having been compelled by his necessities to contract debts, and 
 hunted, as is supposed, by the terriers of the law, he retired to 
 a public house on Tower Hill, where he is said to 
 have died of want ; or, as is related by one of his LiWsfof the 
 biographers, by swallowing, after a long fast, a piece 5 ets : 
 of bread which charity had supplied. He went out, 
 as is reported, almost naked, in a rage of hunger, and, finding a 
 gentleman in a neighboring coffee-house, asked him for a shilling. 
 The gentleman gave him a guinea ; and Otway, going away, 
 bought a roll and was choked by the first mouthful. All this, 
 I hope, is not true. 
 
 If Lee died tipsy outside a public house, Otway died Dor an's 
 half-starved within one, at the Bull on Tower Hill. the stage. 
 
 Otway had an intimate friend, who was shot ; the 
 murderer fled toward Dover, and Otway pursued him. Anecdotes : 
 On his return he drank water when violently heated, JohnDenms, 
 and so got a fever, which was the death of him. ms-mo. 
 
 There is no sign of the Bull to be found on Tower Hill 
 now, and the exact site of Otway's tavern is unknown. 
 
 He was buried in the churchyard of St. Clement Danes, 
 April 16, 1685. No stone marks the spot. 
 
 WILLIAM PENK 
 
 1644-1718. 
 
 \\ TILLIAM PENN was born in his father's house 'upon 
 Great Tower Hill, on the east side, with a court 
 adjoining to London Wall.' Part of old London Wall was 
 still to be found in 1885, back of the Tower Station of the 
 Underground Railway, and in the identical court which once 
 contained this house. According to Robert J. Burdette, in 
 his Life of Penn, ' he was not born with his hat on, but 
 this is the only time he was ever seen in his bare head.'
 
 282 SAMUEL PEPYS. [1632-33-1703. 
 
 Peun received his early educatiou at Chigwell Grammar 
 School, about ten miles from London; and here, as he 
 expresses it, the ' Lord first appeared to him,' when he was 
 about twelve years of age. These visitations were repeated 
 afterwards hi his father's house, and at a private school 
 he attended on Tower Hill. He went to Christ Church, 
 Oxford, at the age of fifteen. After his suspension from 
 college and a tour of two years on the Continent, he was 
 entered as a student in Lincoln's Inn. During his stormy 
 life in London, before and after he carried his colonization 
 schemes into effect, he lived with his various Quaker friends 
 when he was not confined in Newgate, the Tower, where he 
 wrote 'No Cross, No Crown,' or 'within the rules of the Fleet,' 
 composing the while innumerable pamphlets, and preaching 
 in the various Friends' meeting-houses of the metropolis. 
 
 Penn is said to have occupied the house ' on the south- 
 west corner of Norfolk Street, Strand, the last house in the 
 street and overlooking the river,' on the site of which, No. 
 21 Norfolk Street, was the Arundel Hotel in 1885. And 
 he is known to have lived at one time at Teddington, on the 
 left bank of the Thames, near Twickenham. 
 
 He was buried at Chalfont, Bucks. 
 
 SAMUEL PEPYS. 
 
 1632-33-1703. 
 
 / ~PHE famous gossip was born on the 23d of February, 
 * 1632-33, but whether at Brompton, near Huntingdon, 
 where his father had a small property, or in London, cannot 
 now be determined. He was familiar with the metropolis in 
 his childhood, but it is certain that he went to school at
 
 1632-33-1703.] SAMUEL PEPYS. 233 
 
 Huntingdon before he entered Paul's School in London (see 
 MILTON, p. 211). 
 
 To Paul's Schoole, it being opposition day there. I heard 
 some of their speeches and they were just as school p 
 hoys used to be. of the seven liberal sciences, but I Diary, Feb. 
 
 ,, . , , ... 4,1662-63. 
 
 think not so good as our s were in our time. 
 
 Pepys was married in the Church of St. Margaret, West- 
 minster, on the 1st of December, 1655, and in the register 
 is described as ' Samuel Peps of this parish, Gent.' This 
 spelling of his name, together with that of the register of 
 St. Olave's, Hart Street, recording his death, ' Samuel 
 Peyps, Esq.,' may settle the point of its proper pro- 
 nunciation. 
 
 Pepys, at the tune of the opening of his Diary, 1659-60, 
 .was living in Axe Yard, on the west side of King Street, 
 Westminster. 
 
 I lived in Axe Yard, having my wife, and servant Diary, 
 Jane, and no other in the family than us three. ~ 60 * 
 
 At Westminster by reason of rain and an easterly wind, the 
 water was so high that there was boats rowed in King D . 
 
 Street, and all our vard was drowned, that one could March 20, 
 
 , . .. 1660. 
 not get to my house, so as no man has seen the like 
 
 almost, and most houses full of water. 
 
 Axe Yard, afterwards called Fludyer Street, is now cov- 
 ered by the Public Offices (see DAVENAXT, p. 75). King 
 Street at one time extended to Charing Cross, through the 
 grounds of the Palace of Whitehall. 
 
 In June, 1660, Pepys took possession of a house belonging 
 to, and adjoining, the Navy Office in Seething Lane. 
 
 Up early and with Commissioner Pett to view the houses in 
 Seething Lane, belonging to the Navy, where I find 
 the worst very good, and had great feares they will ^'i 
 shuffle me out of them, which troubles me. 
 
 This morning we met at the office. I dined at my Diary, June 
 house in Seething Lane,
 
 234 SAMUEL PEPYS. [1632-33-1703. 
 
 While Pepys was clerk in the Navy Office he made marks 
 which are not yet effaced. To this day rules and regulations 
 of his devising are in force at the Admiralty, and documents 
 are issued to the fleet of Victoria, on plans formed by Pepys. 
 
 Seething Lane was spared by the Great Fire, but contains 
 now no houses, seemingly, as old as the reign of James II. 
 It runs from Crutched Friars to Great Tower Street ; and 
 the old Navy Office, which was removed in 1788, stood on 
 the east side of the Lane, with its chief entrance on Crutched 
 Friars. 
 
 From a ' Certificate ' of the clergyman of the Church of 
 St. Olave, Hart Street, preserved in the Bodleian Library, 
 Oxford, and quoted in full by Lord Braybrooke in his 
 ' Memoir ' attached to the ' Diary and Correspondence of 
 Samuel Pepys,' it seems that Pepys lived in this parish, 
 probably in one house, for thirteen years (1660-1673), 'dur- 
 ing which time the said Mr. Pepys and his whole family 
 were constant attendants upon the public worship of God 
 and his holy ordinances,' and that ' his Lady received the 
 Holy Sacrament from my hands according to the rites of the 
 Church of England upon her death-bed, few houres before 
 her decease, in the year 1669.' It would also seem from 
 the same document, dated May 22, 1681, that even after 
 Pepys removed from the parish 'he continued to receive 
 the Holy Communion with the inhabitants thereof.' 
 
 In 1684 Pepys lived in Buckingham Street, Strand. His 
 house ' over against ' Peter the Great's was on the west side 
 of Buckingham Street, No. 1 4, at the end of the street and 
 overlooking York Gate (see BACON, p. 12). It has been 
 rebuilt. 
 
 In 1700 he removed to Clapham, under the advice of his 
 physician, where, on the 26th of May, 1703, he died. No 
 trace of his house remains. It was taken down in the 
 middle of the eighteenth century.
 
 1632-33-1703.] SAMUEL PEPYS. 235 
 
 Sept. 23. I went to visit Mr. Pepys at Clapham where he has 
 
 a very noble and wonderfully well furnished house. 
 
 ' .., , ,. i .Vn. - ,.1 Evelyn's 
 
 especially with Indian and Chinese curiosities ; tne Diary, 1700. 
 
 offices and gardens well accommodated for retirement. 
 
 Pepys was buried by the side of his wife, ' in a vault by 
 ye Communion Table,' in the Church of St. Olave, Hart 
 Street, at the junction of Seething Lane and Crutched 
 Friars. The building has been left comparatively untouched. 
 Pepys erected an elaborate monument to his wife, with her 
 bust and an inscription in elegant Latin, near the chancel. 
 A memorial to Pepys himself in this church was unveiled in 
 1884 by James Russell Lowell. It is on the south wall, 
 near the little door by which he was wont to enter the 
 gallery, ascending from the churchyard by an outside stair- 
 case ; but gallery, staircase, and door have all disappeared. 
 On the bottom of this tablet are the words 'Erected by 
 Public Subscription, 1883;' and Pepys in bas relief is now 
 looking towards the monument to his wife. 
 
 In 1677 Pepys was elected Master of the Cloth workers' 
 Company, and left it a silver cup, which is carefully pre- 
 served. The new hall of the Clothworkers, built in 1860, 
 stands upon the site of the old hall, on the east side of 
 Mincing Lane, a few doors from Fenchurch Street. In 1684 
 he was elected President of the Royal Society, which met in 
 his day in Arundel House, in the Strand, marked now by 
 Arundel Street ; and in Gresham College, which then stood 
 on the east side of Old Broad Street, half-way between 
 Wormwood and Threadneedle Streets, as shown in a map 
 printed by Stow. It was taken down in the middle of last 
 century. Gresham House, No. 22 Old Broad Street, stands 
 upon its site. Gresham College, on the northeast corner of 
 Gresham and Basinghall Streets, is of much later date. 
 
 In 1679-80 Pepys was confined in the Tower upon a 
 charge of Popery and Treason, and in 1690 he was sent
 
 236 SAMUEL PEPYS. [1632-33-1703. 
 
 for a short time to the Gate House at Westminster (see 
 BURKE, p. 27). 
 
 A list of the London taverns frequented by Pepys would 
 simply be a list of all the taverns in London in Pepys's day. 
 
 Lord's Day. Met with Purser Washington, with whom and a 
 Diary, July lady, a friend of his, I dined at the Bell Tavern in 
 i, i860. King Street [Westminster] ; but the rogue had no 
 more manners than to invite me and to let me pay my club. 
 Diary Sept '^ * ne Mitre in Wood Street. Here some of us fell 
 is, 1660. to handicap, a sport that I never knew before. 
 
 The Mitre in "Wood Street was destroyed in the Great 
 Fire of 1666. Mitre Court lies between Wood, Gresham, 
 Milk Streets, and Cheapside. He frequented also the Mitre 
 in Fenchurch Street, likewise a victim to the Great Fire, but 
 soon after rebuilt. Its site is marked by Mitre Chambers, 
 No. 157 Fenchurch Street. 
 
 Still another Mitre of Pepys's was that in Fleet Street 
 near Temple Bar see (JOHNSON, p. 169). 
 
 A favorite tavern of his was the Leg, in King Street, 
 Westminster, which at that time, as has been shown, extended 
 through the precincts of Whitehall Palace to Charing Cross. 
 
 With Mr. Creed and More to the Leg in the Palace to dinner, 
 Diary, Apr. w hi c h I g ave them, and after dinner, I saw the girl of 
 6, 1661. the house, being very pretty, go into a chamber, and I 
 went in after her and kissed her. 
 
 This morning going to my father's I met him, and so 
 June 21, he and I went and drank our morning draft at Sam- 
 son's, in Paul's Church Yard. 
 
 Of the Dolphin, ' near my house,' which was then in 
 Seething Lane, no trace is left ; and no hint is given as to 
 its site. 
 
 At noon with my wife by appointment, to dinner at the Dol- 
 phin, with Sir W. Batten, and his lady and daughter Matt, and 
 Captain Cook and his lady, a German lady but a very great
 
 1632-33-1703.] SAMUEL PEPYS. 237 
 
 beauty, and we dined together, at the spending of some wagers 
 won and lost between him and I ; and then we had the best 
 musique and very good songs, and were very merry and Di ary NOV 
 danced. But, after all our mirth comes a reckoning 22 > 1661 - 
 of 4, besides 4s of the musicians which did trouble us, but it 
 must be paid and so I took my leave and left them there about 
 eight o'clock. 
 
 We all went to the Three Cranes Tavern, and Diary, Jan. 
 though the best room in the house is such a narrow 23> 1G6 i-&2. 
 dogg-hole that it made me loath my company and victuals, and a 
 sorry poore dinner it was, too. 
 
 This was probably the Three Cranes in the Vintry, in 
 Queen Street, Upper Thames Street. 
 
 In Covent Garden to-night going to fetch home my wife, I 
 stopped at the Great Coffee House there, where I never Diar _, . 
 was before . . . and had I had time then, or could at 3, iei>3-64. 
 other times, it will be good coming thither, for there I perceive 
 is very witty and pleasant discourse. 
 
 This was Will's Coffee House, in Russell Street, Covent 
 Garden, corner of Bow Street (see ADDISON, p. 7). 
 
 He also frequented the Fleece Tavern in Covent Garden, 
 where on one occasion he ' staid till late, very merry.' It 
 stood on the corner of York Street and Brydges Street, 
 afterwards Catherine Street. 
 
 To a little ordinary in Hercules' Pillars Alley, the Diary, 
 Crowne, a poor sorry place and there dined and had a IGCG-ST.' 
 good dinner. 
 
 At noon my wife came to me at my tailor's and I Diary, 
 sent her home, and myself and Tom dined at Hercules' ieco. 
 Pillars. 
 
 Hercules' Pillars Alley was on the south side of Fleet 
 Street, near St. Dunstan's Church. In Strype's time, be- 
 ginning of the eighteenth century, this street was almost 
 entirely 'given up to such as keep publick houses.' It has 
 been built over for many years.
 
 238 SAMUEL PEPYS. [1632-33-1703. 
 
 To the Cock in Fleet Street, No. 201, 11 and to the Cock 
 in Suffolk Street, Haymarket, of which latter now no trace 
 is left, he often went with his wife, Mrs. Knipp, and other 
 ladies of his acquaintance. 
 
 Diary, Thence by water to the Temple and there to the 
 
 liSs 1 22 ' Cocke Alehouse and drank and eat a lobster and sang 
 
 and were mighty merry. 
 Did walk to the Cock at the end of Suffolke Street, where I 
 
 never was, a great ordinary mightily cried up, and 
 March is, there bespoke a pullet and while dressing he and I 
 
 walked into St. James's Park, and thence back and 
 dined very handsome, with a good soup and a pullet for 4s 6d, 
 the whole. 
 
 On the 17th of January, 1659-60, he writes : 'I went to 
 the Coffee Club and heard a very good discourse.' This was 
 the Rota Club, which met at the Turk's Head, in New 
 Palace Yard, an inn that has long since disappeared. 
 
 Pepys's face was also well known at the ' Beare Inn, 
 Southwark, at the foote of London Bridge.' It was 'op- 
 posite the end of St. Olave's Church in Tooley Street,' 
 and was taken down in 1761. Other places of his re- 
 sort were, the Blue Bells, in Lincoln's Inn Fields ; 
 Carey House, in the Strand, near the Savoy ; the Castle 
 Tavern, ' by the Savoy near Exeter House,' which stood in 
 Bull Inn Court, No. 407 Strand, as late as 1846; Chate- 
 lines, the French house, in Covent Garden; the Devil 
 Tavern, near Temple Bar (see BEN JONSON, p. 76) ; the 
 Goat Tavern, in Charing Cross ; the Golden Eagle, in New 
 Street, between Fetter Lane and Shoe Lane; the Golden 
 Lion, near Charing Cross ; the Heaven Tavern, in Lindsay 
 Lane, Westminster, the site of the Committee Rooms of the 
 House of Commons, ' went to Heaven with Sudliu, and I 
 dined' (Hell and Paradise were neighboring inns); the 
 King's Head, Fleet Street, opposite Chancery Lane ; the
 
 1632-33-1703.] SAMUEL PEPYS. 239 
 
 King's Head in Tower Street ; the King's Head opposite 
 the church in Islington ; the Pope's Head in Chancery 
 Lane ; the Pope's Head in Pope's Head Alley, running from 
 Xo. 18 Coruhill to No. 73 Lombard Street (this was in 
 existence as late as 1756); the Quaker, in the Great Sanc- 
 tuary, Westminster, on the site of which the Sessions House 
 was built ; the Rhenish Wine House, on the south side of 
 Cannon Eow, Westminster (see LOCKE, p. 197); the Rhenish 
 Wine House, in the Steel Yard, Upper Thames Street, on 
 the site of which the Cannon Street Station has been built 
 (the Steel Yard lay between All Hallows Lane and Cousin 
 Lane) ; the Rose, in Russell Street, Covent Garden (portions 
 of Drury Lane Theatre stand on its site) ; the Star, in 
 Cheapside ; the Sun in King Street, Westminster ; the Sun 
 ' behind the Exchange ; ' the Sun in New Fish Street (Fish 
 Street Hill) ; the Sun in Chancery Lane ; the Swan in Old 
 Fish Street; the Swan in Fenchurch Street; the Three 
 Tuns, ' in Charing Cross,' probably the inn of that name 
 which stood on the site of No. 66 Bedford Street, Strand, 
 near the corner of Chandos Street ; the White Horse Tavern, 
 in Lombard Street ; and the World's End, Knightsbridge, 
 1 a drinking place near the Park.' 
 
 None of these now remain, and the exact site of many of 
 them it is not possible to discover. Besides the foregoing, 
 he mentions scores of taverns by name, but gives no hint 
 as to where they stood.
 
 240 ALEXANDER POPE. [1688-1744. 
 
 ALEXANDEK POPE. 
 
 1688-1744. 
 
 / T V HAT Pope was a native of Londoii, there seems to be no 
 * question ; but the exact spot of his birth has never 
 been definitely settled. Johnson says his father was a linen- 
 draper, who dwelt iu the Strand. John Timbs believes 
 that he was born in Old Broad Street, in the parish of St. 
 Bennet Fink, where his father a merchant, not a trades- 
 man had his abode ; but, according to Spence, and this 
 is the generally accepted authority, he was born in Plough 
 Court, Lombard Street, and in 1688. Plough Court, oppo- 
 site No. 37 Lombard Street, contains now none but the most 
 modern of business houses ; and in Old Broad Street is no 
 building dating back to Pope's time. 
 
 Pope, a delicate child, was never thoroughly well, al- 
 though he lived past middle age. He is said to have 
 inherited his crookedness of person from his father, and his 
 delicacy of constitution and fretfulness of temper from his 
 mother, who was a victim to headaches. Johnson declares 
 that his weakness of body continued through life, although 
 the mildness of his mind if it ever was mild ended with 
 his childhood. 
 
 Pope went to school at Marylebone, and afterwards at 
 Hyde Park Corner, where he lisped in numbers. Later in 
 life his address for a short time was ' at Mr. Digby's, next 
 door to ye Golden Ball, on ye second terras in St. James's 
 Street ; ' and a letter to him, extant, is addressed to ' Bridge- 
 water House in Cleveland Court, St. James's.' A modern 
 Bridgewater House was built upon its site in 1845. The 
 pleasant old house No. 9 Berkeley Street, Piccadilly, opposite 
 Devonshire House, is said to have been a home of Pope's.
 
 1688-1744] ALEXANDER POPE. 241 
 
 We are glad to be able to point out the site of the London resi- 
 dence of the great poet Pope. He lived at one time at No. 9 
 Berkeley Street, close to his friend Lord Burlington ; 
 and it was here, possibly, in 1715, on the eve of his London, 
 departure to his quiet retreat at Twickenham, that he 
 composed his ' Farewell to London.' We are assured 
 that in the lease of this house the name of Mr. Alexander Pope 
 occurs as a former tenant. From the poet it passed into the 
 hands of General Bulkley, who died at an extreme old age. A 
 late occupant of the house well remembered that whenever the 
 General visited it after it had ceased to be his own, it was his 
 invariable habit to observe, with an air of respectful interest, ' This 
 is the house Mr. Alexander Pope lived in.' 
 
 Pope is believed to have spent a year or two at Chiswick, 
 and on good authority, although Faulkner in his ' Chiswick,' 
 does not mention the fact. His father, dying in 1717, 
 was buried in Chiswick Churchyard ; and portions of the 
 Iliad, it is said, were written on the backs of letters ad- 
 dressed to 'Mr. Pope at his house in ye New Buildings, 
 Chiswick.' New Buildings, afterwards Mawson Row, a 
 group of five three-storied red brick houses, on the west 
 side of Chiswick Lane, at the corner of Mawson Lane, and 
 half-way between the River and the Manor House, were 
 unaltered in 1885. 
 
 Pope lived at the famous villa at Twickenham for a quar- 
 ter of a century, and died there in 1744. 
 
 The villa or villakin, as Swift called it was much smaller 
 when Pope took it than when he left it. In 1717 it comprised only 
 a central hall with two small parlors on each side, and 
 corresponding rooms above. He left it a brick centre H and-Book 
 
 of four floors with wings of three floors, each story with f th . e 
 
 6 ' Environs of 
 
 a single light towards the Thames. . . . After Pope's London : 
 
 Twicken- 
 death his villa was sold to Sir William Stanhope, ham. 
 
 brother to the Earl of Chesterfield, who added wings to 
 
 the house, and enlarged and improved the garden, greatly to the 
 
 disgust of Walpole. 
 
 1C
 
 242 ALEXANDER POPE. [1688-1744. 
 
 This house was destroyed early in the nineteenth century. 
 The present 'Pope's Villa' (1885) is entirely different in 
 character, and does not even stand on the site of the original 
 building. The Grotto, however, still remains. 15 
 
 Pope was buried in a vault in the middle aisle of Twick- 
 enham Church, near the east end of the aisle. 
 
 The ' Essay on Man ' is said to have been written at 
 Bolingbroke House, Battersea. A portion of the west wing 
 of this building was standing as late as 1885, on Mill 
 Wharf, Church Road, Battersea, and was used as a i-esidence 
 by the foreman of the mill of Dives & Co., to whom the 
 property belonged, the carved chimney-pieces and frescoed 
 ceilings remaining intact. On the front of the wing over- 
 looking the river was the famous cedar room in which Boling- 
 broke and Pope so often sat ; the floor, walls, and ceiling of 
 cedar still as redolent as a century and a half before. 
 
 Pope was also a frequent visitor of Bolingbroke at Dawley 
 Court, in Harrington, Middlesex, not very far from Twicken- 
 ham. Only one wing of the house remains. It stands 
 between the Great Western Eailway, on the south, and the 
 Grand Junction Canal, on the north, and is about half a 
 mile east of Hayes Station and twelve miles from Hyde 
 Park Corner. 
 
 Pope's taverns were the Bedford, in the Piazza, Covent 
 Garden (see CHURCHILL, p. 51); the Upper Flask, Hamp- 
 stead Heath (see ADDISON, p. 9) ; and Slaughter's, which 
 stood in St. Martin's Lane, three doors from Newport Street, 
 but was taken down in 1843, when Cranboume Street was 
 cut through that section of the town to make a thorough- 
 fare between Coventry Street and Piccadilly. H. R. Haweis, 
 in his chapter on Handel in his ' Music and Morals,' associ- 
 ates Pope with another inn the identity of which is not very 
 clear, as Regent Street did not exist until seventy-five years 
 after Pope's death. He says :
 
 1688-1744.] ALEXANDER POPE. 243 
 
 As Handel enters the ' Turk's* Head,' at the corner of Regent 
 Street, a noble coach and four drives up. It is the Duke of 
 Chandos, who is inquiring for Mr. Pope. Presently a deformed 
 little man in an iron-gray suit, and with a face as keen as a razor, 
 hobbles out, makes a low bow to the burly Handel, who, helping 
 him into a chariot, gets in after him, and they drive off together 
 to Cannons, the Duke's mansion at Edgeware. There they meet 
 Mr. Addison, the poet Gay, and the witty Arbuthnot, who have 
 been asked to luncheon. The last number of the ' Spectator ' lies 
 on the table ; and a brisk discussion arises between Pope and 
 Addison, concerning the merits of the Italian Opera, in which 
 Pope would have the better if he only knew a little more about 
 music, and could keep his temper. 
 
 Among the traditions of Will's Coffee House, at the corner 
 of Bow and Eussell iStreets, Covent Garden (see ADDISON, 
 p. 7), is one to the effect that Pope was carried there in his 
 youth to see and worship Dryden, whose works he eveu 
 then greatly admired, and who was for some years the 
 autocrat of that establishment. As Pope was born in 1688, 
 and as Dryden died only twelve years later, Pope could have 
 been little more than a child when this interview took 
 place, if it took place at all. 
 
 Pope was a member of different clubs, of more or less 
 renown. 
 
 Whilst deeply engaged in his translation of Homer, Pope fre- 
 quently relaxed from his labors by a visit to town. . . . The 
 dissensions which arose amongst the ministers before R , 
 the death of Queen Anne, and which Swift strove in Life of 
 vain to reconcile, had interrupted the meetings of the 
 political society called the October Club ; but another associa- 
 tion had been formed, which was known by the name of the 
 Scriblerus Club, and of which Swift, Parnell, Arbuthnot, and 
 Gay were members. At both these places Pope found himself 
 a welcome guest ; and as temperance and regularity were not 
 the habits of the times, he was probably led into indulgences
 
 244 EICIJARD PORSON. [1759-1808. 
 
 inconsistent no less with his infirm constitution than with his 
 usual course of life. 
 
 The October club was a club of country members of 
 ham'sifand- Parliament, of about the time of Queen Anne, about 
 
 Book of one hundred and fifty in number, Tories to the back- 
 London : 
 October bone. . . . They met at the Bell, afterwards the 
 
 Crown, in King Street, Westminster. 
 
 King Street originally ran from Charing Cross to the 
 Palace of Westminster, past or through the grounds of the 
 Palace of Whitehall, and although very narrow and badly 
 paved, was the chief thoroughfare between the two points. 
 The formation of Parliament Street after the destruction of 
 Whitehall in 1698 wiped out a large part of King Street, 
 and the new Public Offices have left but a short portion 
 of what remained. No Crown or Bell exists to-day. The 
 Scriblerus Club had no proper home of its own, but met at 
 some of the many taverns in St. James's Street or Pall 
 Mall. 
 
 RICHARD PORSON. 
 
 1759-1808. 
 
 first home in London, when he arrived from 
 Cambridge in 1791 or 1792, was at No. 5 Essex Court, 
 Middle Temple, where he remained for some years, and 
 where, putting out his candle in the midst of a prolonged 
 debauch, he is described as staggering downstairs to relight 
 it, and after many vain attempts uttering his famous curse 
 against ' the nature of things.' 
 
 He had a temporary home, when he chose to avail him- 
 self of it, in the house of his friend Perry, in Lancaster 
 Court, Strand. According to some authorities, Porson was
 
 1759-1808.] RICHARD PORSON. 245 
 
 married in 1795 in the Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, 
 although no record of such marriage is to be found there. 
 
 In 1805 Porson was appointed principal Librarian to the 
 London Institution, then at No. 8 Old Jewry. The building 
 was destroyed by fire in 1863, and banks and business 
 offices were built upon its site. He had apartments in the 
 Instituiton, and died there in 1808. He was buried in 
 Cambridge. 
 
 Among his places of bucolic resort were the African 
 Coffee House, in St. Michael's Alley, a short passage at 
 the side of St. Michael's Church, Cornhill, where was, in 
 1885, a West Indian but no African Tavern ; and the 
 Turk's Head, No. 142 Strand (see JOHNSON, p. 170). 
 
 I afterwards used to meet Porson every night at the Turk's 
 Head in the Strand, where he retained his devotion to 
 
 brandy and water, and often tired the company with Taylor's 
 
 v *. i r j r r, > . .. Records of 
 
 his recital of a burlesque parody of Pope s exquisite my Life. 
 poem of ' Eloisa and Abelard.' 
 
 The Cider Cellar, at No. 20 Maiden Lane, near Bedford 
 Street, Covent Garden, which has now disappeared, was the 
 spot to which his footsteps more frequently and more fondly 
 turned. It was opposite the house (No. 26 Maiden Lane) 
 in which Turner the painter was born ; and the Adelphi 
 Club, No. 21 A, Maiden Lane, stood on its site in 1885. It 
 was what is called ' an all-night tavern,' and famous for its 
 cider ; hence its name. What Porson considered one of the 
 greatest compliments ever paid to him was the remark of 
 one of his boon companions of this place, that 'Dick can 
 beat us all, he can drink all night, and spout all day.'
 
 246 MATTHEW PRIOR. [1664-1721. 
 
 MATTHEW PRIOR 
 
 1664-1721. 
 
 / ~PHE first traces of Prior in London are at the Rummer 
 * Tavern, kept by his uncle, and described by Peter 
 Cunningham as ' a famous tavern two doors from Lockitt's, 
 between Whitehall and Charing Cross, removed to the 
 water side of Charing Cross in 1710, and burnt down 
 November 7, 1750.' 
 
 Lockitt's Ordinary stood on the site of Drummoud's 
 Banking House in Spring Gardens, and in an old map, 
 dated 1 734 and published in Smith's ' Antiquities of West- 
 minster,' Rummer Court, unquestionably the site of the 
 famous hostelry, is shown to have been situated between 
 Buckingham Court and Cromwell Place. The Ship Tavern, 
 at No. 35 Charing Cross, with an entrance into Spring 
 Gardens, standing in 1885, is a direct descendant of the 
 Rummer. 
 
 This uncle of Prior, into whose kindly hands he fell 
 when his father's death left him a small boy without home, 
 sent him to Westminster School (see CHURCHILL, p. 51), 
 under Dr. Busby, and after giving him a moderate educa- 
 tion there, received him into his own family at the Rummer 
 Tavern. Here he attracted the attention of the Earl of 
 Dorset, who was so much pleased with the lad and his pro- 
 ficiency in the classics that he defrayed the expenses of his 
 University course. 
 
 Prior's London home was in ' Duke Street, Westminster, 
 facing Charles Street.' Duke Street, afterwards called 
 Delahay Street, has been greatly changed since Prior's day. 
 Facing Charles Street is now a gate of St. James's Park, and
 
 1664-1721.] MATTHEW PRIOR. 247 
 
 Charles Street itself forms the southern boundary of the 
 new Government Buildings. 
 
 On July 30, 1717, Prior wrote to Swift : 
 
 I have been made to believe that we may see your revered 
 
 person this summer in England. If so, I shall be glad 
 
 Works of 
 
 to meet you at any place ; but when you come to swift : 
 
 London, do not go to the Cocoa Tree, but come imme- 
 diately to Duke Street, where you shall find a bed, 
 a book, and a candle ; so pray think of sojourning nowhere else. 
 
 Prior's taverns were the Cocoa Tree, in St. James's Street 
 (see ADDISON, p. 7) ; the Smyrna, in Pall Mall, the site of 
 which cannot now be discovered ; the Palsgrave Head, on 
 Palsgrave Place, Strand, between Devereux Court and Shanet 
 Place, since entirely removed and covered by the modern 
 Palsgrave Restaurant, No. 222 Strand ; and the Star and 
 Garter, the meeting-place of the Brothers' Club, which stood 
 at No. 44 Pall Mall on the north side, and upon the site 
 of which a modern public house, bearing the same name, 
 has been built. 
 
 Prior was also too often to be found in less creditable 
 society and in less reputable neighborhoods. Johnson 
 shows him to have deserted the company of Bolingbroke, 
 Pope, and Swift in order to smoke a pipe and to drink with 
 a common soldier and his wife in Long Acre. The woman 
 is said to have been the original of the beautiful ' Chloe ' of 
 his poem ; and, according to Pope, ' he used to bury himself, 
 for whole days and nights together, with this poor, mean 
 creature.'
 
 248 BRYAN WALLER PROCTER. [1787-1874. 
 
 BEYAN WALLEE PEOCTEE 
 
 (BARRY CORNWALL). 
 1787-1874. 
 
 "PROCTER knew nothing of London until 1807. In 1816 
 -^ he was living in Brunswick Square. After his mar- 
 riage in 1824 he occupied the upper part of a house in 
 Southampton Row, not far from Red Lion Square, the 
 scene, at that time, of his daily labors ; but in the next year 
 he removed to the house of Mr. and Mrs. Basil Montague, 
 No. 25 Bedford Square, on the north side, where in 1825 
 Adelaide Procter was born. 
 
 When Adelaide was a child the Procters lived ' in a little 
 gothic cottage opposite Sir Edwin Landseer's, at No. 5 Grove 
 End Road, St. John's Wood.' No little gothic cottage is 
 standing there now which answers this description. No. 5 
 Grove End Road was called Salisbury House in 1885, but 
 was not opposite Sir Edwin Landseer's. The numbers had 
 not been changed since 1840. 
 
 Later, and for a number of years, their home was at 
 No. 13 Upper Harley Street, Cavendish Square, where they 
 entertained, in a modest but delightful way, many distin- 
 guished men and women. Upper Harley Street has since 
 beeu called Harley Street, and renumbered. The Procters' 
 house still stood on the east side, but was numbered 38 in 
 1885. In 1861 they went to No. 13 Weymouth Street, Cav- 
 endish Square, where, thirteen years later, ' Barry Corn- 
 wall ' died. He was buried at Finchley. The Weymouth 
 Street house has also been renumbered. It stood on the 
 north side, near Beaumont Street.
 
 1552-1618.] SIR WALTER RALEIGH. 24J4 
 
 SIR WALTER RALEIGH. 
 
 1552-1618. 
 
 "D ALEIGH is said to have been a member of the Middle 
 ^ Temple, but this is merely traditional ; and as he de- 
 clared at his trial that he had never read a word of law until 
 he entered the Tower, it is believed that he had no connection 
 with the Temple as a student, although he might have 
 lived there before he took possession of Durham House, 
 which was his town residence for twenty years. It stood 
 between the Strand and the Thames ; the Adelphi Terrace 
 was built upon its river front, and Durham Street perpetu- 
 ates its name. It was taken from him on the accession of 
 James. 
 
 Durham House was a noble palace. After he [Raleigh] came 
 to his greatness he lived there, or in some apartments of it. I 
 well remember his study, which was on a little turret Aubrey . g 
 
 that looked into and over the Thames, and had the Lives of 
 
 Eminent 
 prospect which is as pleasant, perhaps, as any in the Persons : 
 
 world, and which not only refreshes the eie-sight, but 
 
 cheers the spirit (and to speak my mind) I believe enlarges an 
 
 ingeniose man's thoughts. 
 
 Two old houses at Islington, which were standing at the 
 beginning of the present century, had traditional associa- 
 tions with Raleigh. These were the Queen's Head Tavern, 
 marked by Queen's Head Lane, Islington, and the Pied Bull. 
 
 The old Queen's Head has been coupled with the name of Sir 
 Walter Raleigh, who is said, if not to have built, at j^^g 
 
 least to have patronized and frequented, the house ; History of 
 
 Islington, 
 and from the circumstance of his having in the thir- vol. iv. 
 
 tietb. year of Elizabeth's reign [1588] obtained a patent p ' 
 
 ' to make lycenses for keeping of taverns and retailing of wyne
 
 250 SIR WALTER RALEIGH. [1552-1618. 
 
 throughout Englande,' further Conjecture has been hazarded that 
 this was one of the houses so licensed by him, and that the sign 
 of the Queen's head was adopted in compliment to his Royal 
 Mistress. 
 
 A Queen's Head Tavern, built in 1830, stood in 1885 in 
 Essex Road, on the corner of Queen's Head Street, Isling- 
 ton, on the site of Raleigh's house. 
 
 On the west side of Church Row, near Islington Green, at the 
 corner of a footway (now closed up by new houses) leading 
 B , into the Back Road, was recently standing [1829] the 
 Londoniana, Pied Bull Inn. This was originally a country villa, 
 erected probably a few years previous to the decease of 
 Queen Elizabeth ; and, according to a long-current tradition, it 
 was once the residence of the brave Sir Walter Raleigh. 
 
 The present tenant [1740] of the Pied Bull Inn affirms that 
 his landlord was possessed of some old account books, by which 
 Life of ^ a PP ears > beyond all doubt, this house and fourteen 
 Raleigh, acres of land now let at about 70 per annum, did 
 London, belong to Sir Walter Raleigh, and that the oldest man 
 in this parish would often declare that his father had 
 told him Sir Walter proposed to wall in that ground with intention 
 to keep some of his horses therein. 
 
 According to the parish records, 'a manservant of Sir 
 Walter Raylie from Mile End' was buried in Stepney 
 Church, August 25, 1596, from which it is inferred that 
 Raleigh lived at that time in the parish. 
 
 Raleigh's first experiences of the Tower were in 1592, 
 when he incurred the displeasure of Elizabeth by his devo- 
 tion to one of her ladies of honor, Elizabeth Throgmorton, 
 whom he afterwards married. After the death of the Virgin 
 Queen in 1603 he was sent to the Tower by her successor, 
 where he was confined for twelve years. Lady Raleigh was 
 permitted to share her husband's imprisonment for some 
 time; and here, in 1605, their son Carew was born. Raleigh 
 is thought to have occupied the second and third stories of
 
 1552-1618.] SIR WALTER RALEIGH. 251 
 
 the Beauchamp Tower, and to have been confined in the 
 Bloody Tower and the Garden House. Here he studied 
 chemistry, and discovered the cordial to which his name 
 was attached ; wrote several works upon different subjects ; 
 and published, in 1614, his ' History of the World.' 
 
 Raleigh passed the night before his execution in the Gate 
 House, Westminster (see BURKE). 
 
 A cousin of his coming to see him, Sir Walter, finding him sad, 
 began to be very pleasant with him, whereupon Mr. Thynne 
 counselled him : ' Sir, take heed you goe not too 
 muche upon the brave hande, for your enemies will Life^f ^ 
 take exceptions at that.' ' Good Charles,' quoth he, ^ e \f b ' 
 ' give me leave to be merry for this is the last merri- 
 ment that ever I shall have in this worlde, but when I come to 
 the last parte, thou shalte see I will looke on it like a man,' and 
 so he was as good as his worde. 
 
 He was beheaded in Old Palace Yard on the 29th of Octo- 
 ber (Old Style), 1618. Thomas Birch, in a sketch of Raleigh, 
 prefixing an edition of his works, published by Dodsley at 
 the Tally's Head in Pall Mall in 1751 (see AKENSIDE, p. 11), 
 gives the following account of his execution : 
 
 Then, having put off his Gown and Doublet, he called to the 
 Executioner to shew him the Axe ; which not being presently 
 done, he said : ' I prythe let me see it. Dost thou think that I am 
 afraid of it ? ' And having it in bis Hands he felt along the 
 Edge of it, and smiling said to the Sheriff, ' This is a Sharp Medi- 
 cine, but it is a Physician for all Diseases.' Then going too and 
 fro on every side of the Scaffold he desired the Company to pray 
 to God to assist him, and strengthen him. The Executioner, 
 kneeling down and asking his Forgiveness, Sir Walter, laying his 
 Hand upon his Shoulder granted it ; and being ask't which Way 
 he would lay himself on the Block, he answer'd, ' So the Heart be 
 right it is no matter which Way the Head lies.' As he stoop'd to 
 lay himself along, and reclin'd his Head, his Face being towards 
 the East, the Executioner spread his own Cloak under him. 
 After a little Pause he gave the Sign that he was ready for the
 
 252 SAMUEL RICHARDSON. [1689-1761. 
 
 Stroke, by lifting up his Hand, and his Head was struck off by 
 two Blows, his Body never shrinking nor moving. His Head was 
 shewn on each Side of the Scaffold, and then put into a red 
 Leather Bag, and with his Velvet Night Gown thrown over, was 
 afterwards conveyed away in a Mourning Coach of his Lady's. 
 His Body was interred in the Chancel of St. Margaret's Church 
 in Westminster, but his Head was long preserVd in a case by his 
 Widow, who surviv'd him twenty-nine years, and after her Death 
 by his Son Carew, with whom it is said to have been buried at 
 West Horsley in Surrey. 
 
 Seeing a dim light in St. Margaret's Church near by, I entered 
 the old temple, and found the boys of the choir at their rehearsal, 
 William and presently observed on the wall a brass plate which 
 English* announces that Sir Walter Raleigh was buried here in 
 Rambles : the chancel after being decapitated for high-treason in 
 Churches 01 the Palace Yard outside. Such things are the sur- 
 prises of this historical capital, the exceeding great 
 reward of the wanderer's devotion. This inscription begs the 
 reader to remember Ealeigh's virtues as well as his faults, 
 a plea, surely, that every man might well wish should be made for 
 him at last. . . . This church [St. Margaret's, Westminster] con- 
 tains a window commemorative of Raleigh, presented by Americans, 
 and inscribed with these lines by Lowell : 
 
 ' The New World's Sons, from England's breast we drew 
 
 Such milk as bids remember whence we came ; 
 Proud of her past, wherefrom our future grew, 
 This window we inscribe with Raleigh's name.' 
 
 SAMUEL KICHAKDSON. 
 
 1689-1761. 
 
 A LTHOUGH it is not recorded in the earlier biogra- 
 ** phies of Richardson, and although, strangely enough, 
 he does not mention the fact himself, in the axitobiographical
 
 1689-1761.] SAMUEL EICHARDSON. 253 
 
 fragment contained in one of his published letters, Richard- 
 son was a pupil of Christ-Hospital (see COLERIDGE, p. 57). 
 His name is to be found in the list of distinguished ' Blues ' 
 in Staunton's 'Great Schools of England.' He received 
 here ' only common school learning ; ' and at the age of six- 
 teen, by his own choice, he was apprenticed to Mr. John 
 Wilde, of Stationers' Hall, a printer, with whom he served 
 seven years. After the expiration of his time he worked as 
 a compositor for five or six years, when he opened an estab- 
 lishment of his own in the centre, and later in the north- 
 west corner, of Salisbury Court, afterwards Salisbury Square, 
 Fleet Street, where he lived and transacted business for 
 many years, keeping his office there even after he moved 
 to more quiet homes in the suburbs of the West End of 
 London. 
 
 The Square retains now none of the features familiar to 
 the novelist, or to Johnson, Hogarth, and the worthies who 
 were so often his guests there. 
 
 In town [1755] he took a range of old houses, eight in number, 
 which he pulled down, and built an extensive and commodious 
 range of warehouses and printing-offices. It was still 
 in Salisbury Court, in the northwest corner, but it ^f d ^ ar " 
 
 is at present [18021 concealed by other houses from Life of 
 
 Richardson, 
 common observation. Ine dwelling-house, it seems, 
 
 was neither so large nor so airy as the one he quitted ; and 
 therefore the reader will not be so ready, probably, as Mr. Rich- 
 ardson seems to have been, in accusing his wife of perverseness 
 in not liking the new habitation as well as the old. 'Every- 
 body ' (he says) ' is more pleased with what I have done than 
 my wife.' 
 
 Portions of ' Sir Charles Grand i son ' are believed to have 
 been written in Lo veil's Court, opening from No. 19 Pater- 
 noster Row, which in later years was devoted entirely to 
 the printing, binding, and publishing of books.
 
 254 SAMUEL KICHARDSON. [1689-1761. 
 
 While the celebrated Richardson, the author of ' Grandison,' 
 ' Clarissa,' etc., was living, a Mr. Alderman Brydges had a dwell- 
 ing-house and handsome garden in this court, which 
 Antiquarian having the conveiiiency of an alcove, Richardson, as a 
 London.* "' friend to the alderman, is said to have written several 
 of his works in this retired spot. The garden has been 
 built up and considerably retrenched during some years past. 
 
 No trace of any garden in LovelPs Court remains. 
 
 Richardson's first country home was Selby House, after- 
 wards called The Grange, at North End, Hammersmith. It 
 had been divided into two mansions even in Richardson's time, 
 one of which in 1885 was occupied by the artist Edward 
 Burne-Jones ; and it stood on the east side of what had 
 lately been called West Kensington Road, opposite Grove 
 Terrace, and between Hammersmith Road and Edith Villas. 
 The house in 1885 was little changed, and much of Rich- 
 ardson's garden was left intact. 
 
 He lived in a kind of flower-garden of ladies. . . . He had 
 generally a number of young ladies at his house, whom he used 
 to engage in conversation on some subject of sen- 
 bauM's* 11 " timent, and provoke, by artful opposition, to display 
 Rhjnardson ^ e treasures f intellect they possessed. . . . He used 
 to write in a little summer-house or grotto [at North 
 End], as it was called, within his garden, before the family 
 were up ; and when they met at breakfast he communicated the 
 progress of his story, which by that means had every day a fresh 
 and lively interest. ... In the middle of the garden, over 
 against the house, we came to a kind of grotto, where we rested 
 ourselves. It was on this seat, Mr. Le Fevre told me, that 
 ' Pamela,' ' Clarissa,' and ' Grandison ' received their birth ; I 
 kissed the inkhorn on the side of it. 
 
 In 1755 he removed to Parson's Green, Fulham. 
 
 On the site of the house which terminates Pitt's Place [Parson's 
 Green], and which is now [1816] occupied as an academy by Dr. 
 Taylor, stood an ancient mansion which formerly belonged to 
 Sir Edward Saunders in 1682. The building, which was of a
 
 1763-1855.] SAMUEL ROGEKS. 265 
 
 venerable character, and had in front a porch with seats on either 
 side, was rendered interesting as having afforded a resi- 
 dence to Samuel Richardson, the celebrated novelist. London'and 
 
 Mr. Richardson removed hither from North End in Mid <Uesex, 
 
 vol. v. 
 1755, and is said to have here written his novel of 
 
 ' Clarissa Harlowe ; ' but that work was really published in 1748. 
 
 The house stood on the south side of, and directly facing, 
 Parson's Green, between Peterborough House (on the east) 
 and Cromwell Lodge (on the west). On the site of its 
 garden stood, in 1885, Albyn House and the Duke's Head 
 Tavern. No trace of it is left, and the character of the 
 Green has entirely changed. 
 
 Richardson died of apoplexy, July 4, 1761, in this house 
 in Parson's Green, and was buried, at his own request, by 
 the side of his first wife, in the Church of St. Bride, in 
 Fleet Street. A large stone in the pavement of the mid- 
 dle aisle, near the centre of the church, and by the side of 
 the pews numbered 12 and 13 in 1885, records the fact 
 that he lies beneath it. The parish, during the century or 
 more that has elapsed since his death, has not had interest 
 enough in the Father of the English Novel to erect a tablet 
 to his memory ; and the stone above him, placed there by 
 the loving hands of his family, is concealed from the public 
 by the coarse matting that generally covers it. 
 
 SAMUEL ROGEKS. 
 
 1763-1855. 
 
 A LTHOUGH Rogers was a thorough Londoner, his homes 
 ** in the metropolis were very few. He was born at 
 Newington Green in 1763.
 
 256 SAMUEL ROGERS. [1763-1855. 
 
 [Newington Green] is built round with houses evidently of a 
 considerable age. There are trees and quietness about it still 
 William [1845]. In the centre of the south side is an old house, 
 Hewitt's standing back, which is said to have been inhabited by 
 Haunts of Henry VIII. At the end next to Stoke Newington 
 Poets: stands an old Presbyterian chapel, at which the cele- 
 
 brated Dr. Price preached, and of which afterwards 
 the husband of Mrs. Barbauld was minister. Near this chapel 
 De Foe was educated. In this Green lived, too, Mary Woll- 
 stonecraft, being engaged with another lady in keeping school. 
 Samuel Rogers was born in the stuccoed house at the southwest 
 corner, which is much older than it seems. Adjoining it is a 
 large old garden. 
 
 L . , Rogers was born in the first house that presents itself 
 
 Islington, on the west side [of Newington Green], proceeding 
 
 chap. vii. , , 
 
 p. 321, note, from Balls Pond. 
 
 This house is no longer standing ; a row of new brick shops 
 occupies its site, almost the only modern innovation in 
 1885 in the old-fashioned, respectable, substantial square. 
 The Green itself was still enclosed by an old wooden paling, 
 and few of its surrounding houses bear date later than the 
 early part of the present century. 
 
 In 1792, while living here, Rogers published his 'Pleas- 
 ures of Memory.' He left this neighborhood about the 
 year 1795, when he took chambers in the Temple, which he 
 occupied for five years. 
 
 Rogers, like the elder D'Israeli, aspired to lay his youth- 
 ful poems at the feet of Dr. Johnson, and went to Bolt 
 Court, a few years before the old man's death, for that 
 purpose ; but he got no further than the door, the first blow 
 of the knocker sending him and his companion out of the 
 neighborhood of the Lion in a panic from which they did 
 not recover until they were well up the Strand. 
 
 After leaving the Temple, Rogers lodged for a short time 
 in Princes Street, Hanover Square ; but he took possession
 
 176S-1855.] SAMUEL ROGERS. 257 
 
 of the famous house No. 22 St. James's Place, St. James's 
 Street, in 1800, where he lived for more than half a century, 
 and where he gathered about him the brightest intellects of 
 his time. 
 
 What a delightful house it is ! It looks out on the Green Park 
 just at the most pleasant point. The furniture has been selected 
 with a delicacy of taste quite unique. Its value does .... 
 not depend on fashion, but must be the same while the Letters of 
 fine arts are held in any esteem. In the drawing- ] a y, vol.*!. 
 room, for example, the chimney-pieces are carved by chap ' 1V- 
 Flaxman into the most beautiful Grecian forms. The bookcase 
 is painted by Stothard, in his very best manner, with groups from 
 Chaucer, Shakspere, and Boccaccio. The pictures are not nu- 
 merous, but every one is excellent. The most remarkable object 
 in the dining-room is, I think, a cast of Pope, taken after death 
 by Roubilliac. 
 
 I forgot who introduced me to Mr. Rogers in the year 1820. 
 He lived then, and until his death, in St. James's Place. It 
 was not in a wide street, but it looked on to the Green p rocter g 
 Park. Upon the whole, I never saw any house so Recoiiec- 
 tastefully fitted up and decorated. Everything was Men of 
 good of its kind, and in good order. There was no 
 plethora, no appearance of display, no sign of superfluous wealth. 
 . . . His breakfast-table was perfect in all respects. There was 
 not too much of anything; not even too much welcome, yet no 
 lack of it. 
 
 Rogers is silent, and, it is said, severe. When he does talk he 
 talks well, and on all subjects of taste his delicacy of expression 
 is pure as his poetry. If you enter his house, his 
 drawing-room, his library, you of yourself say this is 
 not the dwelling of a common mind. There is not a 22, isis : 
 
 Moore's 
 
 gem, a com, a book thrown aside on the chimney-piece, Life of 
 his sofa, his table, that does not bespeak an almost 
 fastidious elegance in the possessqr. But this very delicacy must 
 be the misery of his existence. Oh, the jarrings his disposition 
 must have encountered through life ! 
 
 17
 
 258 NICHOLAS ROWE. [1673-1718. 
 
 Eogers died in St. James's Place, December 18, 1855. His 
 house No. 22, a charming residence was unchanged 
 in 1885, and unmarked by any tablet, although, with the 
 exception of Holland House (see ADDISON, p. 3), it is perhaps 
 the most interesting in London, on account of its literary 
 associations. 
 
 The tomb of Eogers is in the northeast corner of Hornsey 
 Churchyard. 
 
 Eogers was a member of Bobus Smith's ' King of Clubs,' 
 which met at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, Strand, ' extend- 
 ing from Arundel Street eastward to Mitford Lane, in the 
 rear of the south side of the Strand' (see JOHNSON, p. 170). 
 The Whittington Club, No. 37 Arundel Street, was after- 
 wards built upon its site (see JERROLD, p. 155). He was also 
 one of the early members of the Athenaeum, built on the 
 site of the Courtyard of Carlton House, Waterloo Place, 
 and PaU Mall. 
 
 NICHOLAS ROWE. 
 
 1673-1718. 
 
 "DOWE is said to have received his early education at 
 -*-^- the Highgate Grammar School (see COLERIDGE, p. 59), 
 and is known to have been a pupil of Dr. Busby at West- 
 minster School (see CHURCHILL, p. 51), where he was 
 chosen King's Scholar in 1685. In 1689 he was entered as 
 a student in the Middle Temple. But little is recorded of 
 his life in London, except that in his later years he lived 
 in King Street, Covent Garden, where he died. 
 
 Rowe died the 16th of December, 1718, in the forty-fifth year 
 of his age, and was buried the 19th of the same month in West-
 
 169&-97-1743.] RICHARD SAVAGE. 259 
 
 minster Abbey, in the aisle where many of our English poets are 
 interred, over against Chaucer ; his body being attended 
 
 by a select number of his friends, and the Dean and wood's Life 
 
 i . m ,. L. 1.- f i of Howe, 
 
 choir officiating at his funeral. 
 
 Howe frequented, among others, the Cocoa Tree Tavern, 
 Xo. 64 St. James's Street. 
 
 The anecdotes connected with the Cocoa Tree when it was 
 really the 'Wits' Coffee House' would fill a volume. One of 
 
 them may be quoted here. Dr. Garth, who used often 
 
 .... . ,1 Old and 
 
 to appear there, was sitting one morning in the NewLon- 
 
 coffce-room, conversing with two persons of ' quality,' ehap^xiii" 
 when the poet Rowe, who was seldom very attentive 
 to his dress and appearance, though fond of being noticed by 
 great people, entered the door. Placing himself in a box nearly 
 opposite to that in which the Doctor sat, Rowe looked constantly 
 round with a view to catch his eye ; but not succeeding, he desired 
 the waiter to ask him for the loan of his snuff-box, which he knew 
 to be a valuable one, set with diamonds, and the gift of royalty. 
 After taking a pinch he returned it, but again asked for it so re- 
 peatedly that Garth, who knew him well, and saw through his 
 purpose, took out a pencil and wrote on the lid two Greek charac- 
 ters, $ and P, ' Fie ! Rowe ! ' The poet's vanity was mortified, 
 and he left the house. 
 
 RICHARD SAVAGE. 
 
 1696-97-1743. 
 
 "D ICHARD SAVAGE was born in Fox Court, Holborn, 
 ib\ January 16, 1696-97, and was baptized on the 18th 
 of the same month by the rector of St. Andrew's Church, 
 Holborn, as Richard Smith. 
 
 Such was the beginning of the life of Richard Savage. Born 
 with a legal claim to honor and to affluence, he was in two months
 
 260 RICHARD SAVAGE. [1696-97-1743. 
 
 illegitimated by the parliament, and disowned by bis mother, 
 doomed to poverty and obscurity, and launched upon 
 Lives of the the ocean of life only that he might be swallowed by 
 Savage 1 . ^ s quicksands or dashed upon its rocks. 
 
 In 1885 the west end of Fox Court near Gray's Inn Road 
 was torn down; but nearer Brooke Street were still standing 
 many miserable, wretched tenements, two centuries old, in 
 any one of which the cruel mother might have given life to 
 her unhappy son. 
 
 The site of the shoemaker's stall in Holborn, where 
 Savage worked as a youth, is unknown, nor is there any 
 record as to where he lodged or lived. 
 
 Savage first met Johnson at Cave's, in St. John's Gate 
 (see JOHNSON, p. 157) ; and a favorite tavern of his was the 
 Cross Keys, in that neighborhood. It stood on the east side 
 of St. John's Street, opposite the entrance of St. John's 
 Lane, and facing the Gate. A modern Cross Keys Inn at 
 Nos. 16 and 18 St. John's Street has been erected on its site. 
 He frequented the Crown in King Street, Cheapside, which 
 has disappeared, and in 1727 he went to Button's (see 
 ADDISON, p. 6) to receive the seventy guineas which were 
 subscribed by a number of gentlemen for his relief from 
 distress. He is then believed to have been lodging some- 
 where in Westminster. 
 
 Of ' Robinson's Coffee House, near Charing Cross,' in which 
 occurred the unfortunate broil which brought great subse- 
 quent trouble to Savage, there is no trace now. Johnson 
 gives the following account of the affair : 
 
 Merchant, with some rudeness, demanded a room, and was told 
 that there was a good fire in the next parlor, which the company 
 were about to leave, being then paying their reckoning. Mer- 
 chant, not satisfied with this answer, rushed into the room and 
 was followed by his companions. He then petulantly placed 
 himself between the company and the fire, and soon afterwards
 
 1771-1832.] SIR WALTER SCOTT. 261 
 
 kicked down the table. This produced a quarrel ; swords were 
 drawn on both sides, and one, Mr. Jaines Sinclair, was killed. 
 Savage, having likewise wounded a maid that held him, forced his 
 way with Merchant out of the house. 
 
 They were committed to the Gate House at Westminster 
 (see BURKE, p. 27), and afterwards to Newgate, and were 
 tried at the Old Bailey. Savage was sentenced to death, 
 but subsequently pardoned. What became of the petulant 
 Mr. Merchant, who was convicted of manslaughter only, is 
 not known. 
 
 Savage was familiar with all the disreputable taverns of 
 his day, and was to be seen, too, in some of the more re- 
 fined resorts. One of his experiences with Steele is thus 
 described : 
 
 Almost adjoining and to the east of Apsley House, formerly 
 stood a noted inn, the Pillars of Hercules. . . . The space be- 
 tween the Pillars of Hercules and Hamilton Place 
 [Hyde Park Corner] was formerly occupied by a row London, 
 of mean houses, one of which was a public house 
 called the Triumphant Chariot. This was in all prob- 
 ability the 'petty tavern' to which the unfortunate Richard 
 Savage was conducted by Sir Richard Steele, on the occasion of 
 their being closeted together for a whole day composing a hurried 
 pamphlet which they had to sell for two guineas before they 
 could pay for their dinner. 
 
 SIR WALTEE SCOTT. 
 
 1771-1832. 
 
 OCOTT, on one of his earliest visits to London, in 1803, 
 ^ wrote to Ballantyne from '15 Piccadilly, West,' the 
 house of Charles Dumergues, surgeon dentist to the Royal 
 Family.
 
 262 SIR WALTER SCOTT. [1771-1832. 
 
 Lockhart's I should not omit to say that Scott was attended on 
 Life of Scott. ttji8 tri p ty a fine bull teiT j er uaine< i Camp. 
 
 Piccadilly has been renumbered. The Dumergues lived 
 in the house afterwards No. 96 Piccadilly, corner of White- 
 horse Street, which was unchanged in 1885 ; 16 and this was 
 Scott's usual abiding-place in town until his daughter Mrs. 
 Lockhart had a house of her own at No. 24 Sussex Place, 
 fronting Regent's Park, between Hanover Gate and Clarence 
 Gate, to which to invite him. 
 
 During the sojourn [in London] of 1809 the homage paid 
 Scott would have turned the head of any less gifted man of emi- 
 nence. It neither altered his opinions nor produced 
 Lockhart's 
 
 Scott, vol. i. the affectation of despising it ; on the contrary, he re- 
 ceived it, cultivated it, and repaid it in his own coin. 
 ' All this is very flattering,' he would say, ' and very civil ; 
 and if people are amused with hearing me tell a parcel of old 
 stories, or recite a pack of ballads to lovely young girls and gap- 
 ing matrons, they are easily pleased, and a man would be very 
 ill-natured who would not give pleasure so cheaply conferred.' 
 
 In 1826 Scott was lodging at No. 25 Pall Mall, when he 
 wrote in his Diary : 
 
 Oct. 17. Here I am in this capital once more, after an April 
 meeting with my daughter and Lockhart. Too much 
 g r i e f - our nrst meeting to be joyful, too much 
 
 ii. chap. pleasure to be distressing ; a giddy sensation between 
 the painful and the pleasurable. . . . Oct. 23. Sam 
 
 Rogers and Moore breakfasted here, and we were very merry 
 
 fellows. 
 
 This house, on the north side of Pall Mall, between John 
 Street and Waterloo Place, has been rebuilt. 
 
 Scott, in his occasional visits to London, was to be found 
 in all the best houses and in the most enjoyable society. 
 He breakfasted with Rogers in St. James's Place (see 
 ROGERS, p. 258), frequented the shop of Mr. Murray, No. 50
 
 1771-1832.] SIR WALTER SCOTT. 263 
 
 A, Albemarle Street, where he first met Byron, in 1815 (see 
 BYRON, p. 34), and was welcome at the clubs. 
 
 During the later years of his life he stopped at the 
 Waterloo Hotel, Nos. 85 and 86 Jermyn Street ; at Long's, 
 No. 16 New Bond Street, where he had his last meeting 
 with Byron (see BYROX, p. 34), both unchanged in 1885 ; 6 
 and at the St. James Hotel, No. 76 Jermyn Street, on the 
 south side between Bury and Duke Streets, since a Turkish 
 Bath Establishment, from whence in 1832 he was taken to 
 Abbotsford to die. 
 
 When I saw Sir Walter [Dr. Ferguson writes], he was lying in 
 the second-floor back room of the St. James Hotel hi Jermyn 
 Street, in a state of stupor from which, however, he 
 could be roused for a moment by being addressed. . . . $ C ott, vol. 8 
 I think I never saw anything more magnificent than ^j hap ' 
 the symmetry of his colossal bust, as he lay on the 
 pillow with his chest and neck exposed. ... At length his con- 
 stant yearning to return to Abbotsford induced his physicians to 
 consent to his removal ; and the moment this was notified to him 
 it seemed to infuse new vigor into his frame. 
 
 The St. James Hotel, No. 76 [Jermyn Street], on the south 
 side, was the last London lodging of Sir Walter Scott. Here he 
 lay for a period of three weeks after his return from _ 
 
 _,..,. Cunumg- 
 
 the Continent, either in absolute stupor or in a wak- ham's Hand- 
 ing dream. The room he occupied was the second- London: 
 floor back room ; and the author of this collection of g^t* 1 
 London memoranda delights in remembering the uni- 
 versal feeling of sympathy exhibited by all (and there were many) 
 who stood to see the great novelist and poet carried from the 
 hotel to his carriage on the afternoon of the 7th of July, 1832. 
 Many were eager to see so great a man ; but all mere curiosity 
 ?eemed to cease when they saw the vacant eye and prostrate 
 figure of the illustrious poet. There was not a covered head, 
 and the writer believes from what he could see hardly a 
 dry eye, on the occasion.
 
 264 WILLIAM SHAKSPEBE. [1564-1616. 
 
 THOMAS SHADWELL 
 
 Circa 1640-1692. 
 
 T ITTLE more is known of the London life of William the 
 * ' Third's Poet Laureate than that he was a member of 
 the Middle Temple, lived at one time in Salisbury Court, 
 now Salisbury Square, Fleet Street (see RICHARDSON, p. 253), 
 and in Church Lane, afterwards Church Street, Chelsea, 
 where he died. He was buried in St. Luke's Church, 
 Chelsea ; but no tablet records the fact, and his grave is 
 unknown. 
 
 Mr. ShadweU died the 19th December, 1692, in the fifty- 
 second year of his age, as we are informed by the in- 
 Lives of scription upon his monument at Westminster Abbey, 
 vx>i. Ui. 6 ^ 8 ' although there may be some mistake in that date, for 
 ShadweU ^ ^ ^^ ^ ^ titlepage of his funeral sermon, 
 preached by Dr. Nicholas Bray, that he was interred in Chelsea 
 on the 24th November of that year. 
 
 WILLIAM SHAKSPEKK 
 
 1564-1616. 
 
 SHAKSPERE left Stratford-on-Avon for London about 
 1585, when, according to tradition, he became con- 
 nected in some way with one of the then existing theatres, 
 perhaps holding the horses of the gentlemen who patronized 
 the Red Bull, in Red Bull Yard, now Woodbridge Street, St. 
 John's Street, Clerkenwell (see DAVENANT, p. 75). He was,
 
 1564-1616.] WILLIAM SHAKSPERE. 265 
 
 however, more likely a player at the Blackfriars House, which 
 was built in 1576, upon the ground now called Play House 
 Yard, Ludgate Hill, and the site of which, according to 
 Doran, 'is occupied by Apothecaries' Hall [N"o. 84 Water 
 Lane, between Carter Lane and Play House Yard] and some 
 adjacent buildings.' The theatre was restored twenty years 
 later, when Shakspere and Burbage were interested in its 
 management, but was destroyed during the Commonwealth 
 and never rebuilt. 
 
 That Shakspere was afterwards a householder in the 
 neighborhood of the Blackfriars Theatre, there is no ques- 
 tion. In the Guildhall Library is preserved the original 
 deed of conveyance of a house bought by him and described 
 as ' abutting upon a streete leading down to Puddle Wharffe 
 on the east part right against the King's Maiesty's Ward- 
 robe.' This property in his will he bequeathed and devised 
 unto his daughter Susannah Hall. Major James Walter, in 
 his ' Shakspere's Home and Rural Life ' (page 70), says : 
 'A house is [1874], or was till lately, pointed out near 
 St. Andrew's Church as having been that which belonged to 
 Shakspere ; but this is only a matter of popular tradition.' 
 
 The Church of St. Andrew-by-the- Wardrobe, built by 
 Wren after the Great Fii-e, and, of course, of later date 
 than Shakspere's time, stood in 1885 in the modern Queen 
 Victoria Street, between St. Andrew's Hill and Wardrobe 
 Terrace. 
 
 Wardrobe Place, Church Entry, Ireland Yard, and Play 
 House Yard still perpetuate the memory of this part of 
 Blackfriars as it was in Shakspere's day ; but everything 
 else is changed. In 1885, around the wretched and forsaken 
 burial-place, which is all that is left of St. Anne's Church, 
 Carter Lane, destroyed in the Great Fire, and never rebuilt, 
 was a fragment of stone wall, probably the only stones 
 left standing in that parish which Shakspere may have seen.
 
 266 WILLIAM SHAKSPERE. [1564-1616. 
 
 Ireland Yard is believed to have been so called from the 
 William Ireland mentioned in this deed of Shakspere's 
 house as ' being now or later in the tenure or occupation 
 of it.' 
 
 Shakspere, early in his London career, was associated with 
 the Globe Theatre on the Bankside, which was built in 1594, 
 and was under the management of the same company as the 
 Blackfriars, but on the other side of the Thames and not far 
 from the southern end of Old London Bridge. It was used as 
 a sort of suburban or summer theatre until it was destroyed 
 by fire in 1613. Maps and plans of Old London show it to 
 have stood in the yard of the Globe Tavern, which was 
 approached by Globe Alley, an offshoot of Maid Lane, after- 
 wards New Park Street. Its exact site seems to have been 
 in the establishment of the famous Brewery of Barclay and 
 Perkins, and directly behind the houses which in 1885 were 
 numbered 13, 15, and 17 Southwark Bridge Road, standing 
 on the east side of that thoroughfare, nearly opposite Sum- 
 ner Street. Globe Alley, Deadman's Place, and a number of 
 other streets and lanes often trod by Shakspere have been 
 entirely demolished in the frequent extensions of the premi- 
 ses of the great firm of brewers (see JOHNSON, p. 163). 
 
 Knight, in his ' London,' says that Shakspere lived as late 
 as 1609 in the street since known as Clink Street, South- 
 wark. In 1885 it extended from St. Mary Overy's Wharf 
 to Bankend and the railway-crossing. Malone believes his 
 Southwark abiding-place to have been ' near the Bear Gar- 
 dens in the liberty of the Bishop of Winchester,' just west 
 of Winchester Park, the site of which is now marked by 
 Winchester Street and Winchester Yard. The Bear Gar- 
 dens in 1885 was a short street running from No. 27 Bank- 
 side to No. 58 Park Street, between the Southwark Bridge 
 Crossing and Emerson Street. This was on the exact site of 
 the Bear Gardens existing during the reigns of the Tudors
 
 1564-1616.] WILLIAM SHAKSPERE. 267 
 
 and the Stuarts, as is shown by comparison with old maps 
 and plans of Southwark. It is composed of modern build- 
 ings, and its character is entirely changed. It contained in 
 1885 a White Bear Inn. 
 
 As for the baiting of bulls and bears, they are to this day 
 much frequented, namely, in Bear Gardens on the Bankside, 
 wherein be prepared scaffolds for beholders to stand 
 
 Stows 
 
 upon. . . . Now to return to the west bank there be Survey of 
 two bear gardens, the old and new places, wherein be Eduion'of 
 kept bears, bulls and other beasts to be baited, as also 1603 - 
 mastiffs, in several kenels, nourished to bait them. These bears 
 and other beasts are then baited in plots of ground, scaffolded 
 about for the beholder to stand safe. 
 
 Slender. Why do your dogs bark so ? Be there bears i' the 
 town? 
 
 Anne. I think there are, sir ; I heard them talked of. 
 
 Slender. I love the sport well, but I shall as soon Merry 
 
 Wives of 
 quarrel at it as any man in England. You are afraid Windsor, 
 
 if you see the bear loose, are you not ? scene i. 
 
 Anne. Ay, indeed, sir. 
 Slender. That 's meat and drink to me now. 
 
 Clifford. Are these thy bears ? We '11 bait thy bears to death, 
 And manacle the bear- ward in their chains, 2 Henrv VI 
 
 If thou dar'st bring them to the baiting-place. 
 
 Richmond. Oft have I seen a hot o'erweening cur 
 Eun back and bite because he was withheld, 
 Who, being suffer'd with the bear's fell paw, 
 Hath clapp'd his tail between his legs, and cried. 
 
 Edmond Shakspere, a brother of the bard, and an actor 
 at the Globe, shared, perhaps, his Bankside home. The 
 Parochial Monthly Accounts of St. Saviour's, Southwark 
 (see FLETCHER, p. 107), still preserved, contain in the proper 
 place the following entry : ' 1607. December 31st; Edmond 
 Shakspere, a player, buried in the church, with a forenoone 
 knell of the great bell.' His grave is unknown, although a
 
 268 WILLIAM SHAKSPERE. [1564-1616. 
 
 few years ago, upon a stone in the pavement of the choir of 
 the old church, were engraven his name and the date of his 
 death. 
 
 The connection of "William Shakspere with Southwark is one 
 of the most unquestionable facts in his biography. His brother, 
 Loftie's ^ we h ave seen > was buried in the church. His thea- 
 History of tre was the ' Gloabe upon Banckside.' Close to it, 
 vol. i. but rather more to the westward, was the Rose, another 
 
 chap. x. theatre. A little further in the same direction was 
 two ' pitts ' for bear-baiting and bull-baiting ; and the locality is 
 still [1883], or was very lately, known as the Bear Gardens, and is 
 so marked on many maps. Another old name still extant is that 
 of the Falcon Dock, close to which stood the Falcon Tavern, 
 which is said to have been patronized by Shakspere and his com- 
 pany. Paris Garden was exactly on the spot now covered by the 
 southern approaches of Blackfriars Bridge. If the modern vis- 
 itor, therefore, wishes to identify the place where Shakspere 
 played, he cannot do better than take the train from Charing Cross 
 to Cannon Street, and when he has crossed the line of the 
 Chatham and Dover Railway, he is in the classical region of 
 Bankside. Looking towards the river he will see St. Peter's 
 Church, immediately beyond which, a little to the right, were the 
 bull and bear pits. The train then crosses the Southwark Bridge 
 Road, on the right-hand side of which, looking from the railway, is 
 Barclay and Perkins' Brewery. It covers the site not only of the 
 Globe, but also of the Rose, the Hope, and various other places of 
 a similar kind, which existed here from before Shakspere's time 
 until all theatres were abolished by the Commonwealth. 
 
 In 1598 one William Shakspere was assessed five pounds 
 on a house in the parish of St. Helen's, Bishopsgate Street, 
 which he is believed to have occupied himself. There is no 
 certainty that this was the Shakspere, although he was 
 unquestionably familiar with that neighborhood, and with 
 the adjacent Crosby Hall, the most important house in the 
 parish, which has carefully been restored and is an inter- 
 esting specimen of the domestic architecture of the fifteenth
 
 1564-1616.] WILLIAM SHAKSPERE. 269 
 
 century (see MORE, p. 223). It figures in Shakspere's 
 ' Richard III.' as Crosby Place : ' At Crosby Place, then, 
 shall you find us both.' In Shakspere's day it was occu- 
 pied by the mother of his friend Pembroke, who, as the 
 subject of all verse, is not unlikely to have entertained 
 there the applause, delight, the wonder of our stage, the 
 soul of the age in which she lived (see SYDNEY). 
 
 Then have you one great house called Crosby Place, because the 
 same was built by Sir John Crosby, grocer and wooluian. . . . 
 The house he built of stone and timber, very large and stow . s 
 beautiful and the highest at that time in London Survey of 
 
 London, 
 
 [1466]. . . . Richard, Duke of Gloucester, and Lord Edition of 
 Protector, afterwards King, by the name of Richard 
 III., was lodged in this house. . . . From this Crosby Place up to 
 Leaden Hall Corner, and so down Grass Street, amongst other 
 tenements are divers fair and large built houses for merchants 
 and such like. 
 
 Crosby Place, or Hall, the Church of St. Saviour, where 
 it is to be supposed, naturally, that he was present at the 
 burial of his brother ; and Middle Temple Hall, where 
 ' Twelfth Night' is known to have been produced in 1601, 
 when Shakspere was probably an on-looker or director, 
 are the only buildings still standing in London which are 
 in any way and even these only by inference asso- 
 ciated with him. 
 
 Venerable Hall of the Middle Temple, thou art to our eyes 
 more stately and more to be admired since we looked upon that 
 entry upon the Table Book of John Manningham ! Prcf ., ce to 
 The Globe has perished, and so has the Blackfriars. Knight's 
 The works of the poet who made the names of these Edition of 
 frail buildings immortal need no association to rec- 
 ommend them, but it is yet pleasant to know that there is one 
 locality remaining where a play of Shakspere's was listened to by 
 his contemporaries, and that play ' Twelfth Night.'
 
 270 WILLIAM SHAKSPERE. [1564-1616. 
 
 Feb. 1601. At our feast we had a play called 'Twelfth Night, 
 or What you will,' much like the ' Comedy of Errors,' or 
 Templar's ' Menechuri ' in Plautus but most like and neere to 
 Ciary, that in Italian called ' Inganni.' A good practise in it 
 
 British to make the steward believe his lady-widdowe was in 
 um ' love with him by counterfayting a letter as from his 
 lady, in generall termes telling him what shee liked best in 
 him and prescribing his gestures inscribing his apparaile, &c. 
 and then when he came to practise, making him believe they 
 tooke him to be mad. 
 
 During his London life Shakspere is believed to have 
 been a frequenter of the Mermaid Tavern, which stood on 
 the south side of Cheapside, between Bread and Friday 
 Streets, and where he is said to have had his conflicts of wit 
 with Ben Jonson (see JONSON, p. 176); and tradition asso- 
 ciates his name with the Falcon Tavern, taken down in 
 1808. Its site, until lately, was occupied by the Falcon 
 Glass Works at the end of Holland Street, Southwark, oppo- 
 site the Falcon Drawing Dock ; and its name still lives in 
 Falcon Docks and Falcon Wharf, N"os. 79 and 80 Bankside. 
 Another tavern certainly known to Shakspere was the 
 Boar's Head, in Eastcheap, the site of which is marked by 
 the statue of William IV. (see GOLDSMITH, p. 125). It was 
 a favorite tavern of Falstaff and Prince Hal. He also 
 speaks of the White Hart Inn (White Hart Inn Yard, No. 
 61 Borough High Street in 1885): 
 
 Hath my sword therefore broke through London 
 activ. "' Gates, that you should leave me at the White Hart 
 
 scene 8. ~ , , , n 
 
 in Southwark ( 
 
 The only letter in existence addressed to Shakspere is 
 now preserved at Stratford-upon-Avon. It was directed 
 by Richard Quyney 'To my loveing good Ffriend and 
 Countryman, Mr. W m Shackespere, deliver these,' and was 
 written from the Bell Inn, Bell Inn Yard, Carter Lane, St.
 
 1792-1822.] PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. 271 
 
 Paul's Churchyard, a hostelry without doubt well known 
 to Shakspere himself. A comparatively modern Bell Inn, 
 its direct descendant, stood upon its site in 1885. 
 
 PEECY BYSSHE SHELLEY. 
 
 1792-1822. 
 
 HELLEY saw but little of London, which was the place 
 neither of his birth nor of his death. He is known to 
 have lived in a hotel in Dover Street, Piccadilly, where one 
 of his children was born ; 17 to have lodged at one time at No. 
 90 Great Russell Street (facing the present Bury Street, 
 the southeast wing of the British Museum was built on the 
 site of this house) ; at one time on the corner of Hastings 
 Street and Marbledown Place, Burton Crescent, Euston Road ; 
 and at No. 41 Hans Place, Sloane Street, in a house which 
 has been raised two stories and renewed. Later he lived at 
 No. 23 Chapel Street, South Audley Street, in a house also 
 enlarged ; and in 1817 he was an inmate of Hunt's Cottage 
 at Hampstead (see HUNT, p. 148), when Keats was their 
 neighbor. 
 
 Leigh Hunt was editing the 'Examiner,' and in spite of 
 his two years' imprisonment was still liberal to the Bianchard 
 backbone. For Shelley was with him, talking wild ? ^ ' s 
 radicalism at Hampstead, or discussing the destinies Douglas 
 
 ., . , Jen-old, 
 
 as the two friends rode into town on the stage. chap. m. 
 
 Shelley was married to Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, 
 December 13, 1816, in St. Mildred's Church, Bread Street, 
 corner of Cannon Street ; and he wooed and won his bride in 
 Old St. Pancras Churchyard, now St. Pancras Gardens, Old 
 St. Pancras Road, Kentish Town, then a quiet peaceful
 
 272 WILLIAM SHENSTONE. [1714-1763. 
 
 spot, where by her mother's grave (see GODWIN, p. 118) 
 Mary was fond of sitting with her book or her work. Of 
 this marriage Godwin wrote : 
 
 The piece of news, however, I have to tell you, is that I 
 went to church with this same tall girl some little 
 
 William . .,_.,.'., 
 
 Godwin, his time ago to be married. Her husband is the eldest 
 contempo nd 80n ot> sir Timothy Shelley, of Field Place, in the 
 raries,yoL ii. County of Sussex, Baronet ; so that, according to the 
 vulgar ideas of the world, she is well married, and 
 I have great hopes the young man will make her a good husband. 
 
 WILLIAM SHENSTONE. 
 
 1714-1763. 
 
 OHENSTONE, at one time, lodged in Jermyii Street ; 
 S~ and in 1 740 dated his letters from ' the house of Mr. 
 Wintle, Perfumer, near Temple Bar,' probably in Butcher 
 Row (see LEE, p. 196). 
 
 The greater part of his life was spent in Shropshire ; his 
 occasional resting-place in town being the George Coffee 
 House, afterwards numbered 213 Strand, near Essex Street, 
 upon the site of which a modern tavern bearing the same 
 name has been erected (see MURPHY, p. 227). It was at 
 this inn that his ' warmest welcome ' was found. In one of 
 his letters he says : 
 
 What do you think must he my expense, who love to pry into 
 everything of the kind ? Why, truly, one shilling. My company 
 goes to George's Coffee House, where for that small subscription 
 I read all pamphlets under a three-shilling dimension.
 
 1751-1816.] KICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN. 273 
 
 EICHAED BEINSLEY SHEEIDAN. 
 
 1751-1816. 
 
 Tyf THEN Sheridan and Miss Linley fled to London, they 
 * * took refuge in the house of an oilman, at the Hoi- 
 born end of Featherstone Buildings. The proprietor was 
 the godfather of Charles Lanab, who relates in the Essay 
 ' My First Play,' how his father and mother were playing 
 quadrille when Sheridan arrived that evening ' with his 
 harmonious charge.' Featherstone Buildings, little changed 
 in 1885, was opposite the Great Turnstile. 
 
 Sheridan's first duel with Mathews, interrupted at Hyde 
 Park, near the Hercules' Pillars, an inn just east of the 
 present Apsley House (see SAVAGE, p. 261), was followed by 
 a second at the Castle Tavern in Henrietta Street, Covent 
 Garden, of which no trace remains now. 
 
 Sheridan was entered a student at the Middle Temple in 
 1772. In 1773 he and his wife were living in Orchard 
 Street, Portman Square, where he wrote ' The Rivals,' pro- 
 duced in January, 1775, and 'The Duenna,' brought out 
 in November of the same year. Of his home life almost 
 nothing is known ; and it is only from his own letters and 
 from those addressed to him, that any hint is found as to 
 his divers places of abode in London. 
 
 In 1778 his address was Great Queen Street, Lincoln's 
 Inn Fields; in 1792, Lower Grosveuor Street, New Bond 
 Street; in 1793, No. 10 Hertford Street, Mayfair; in 1804, 
 Somerset Place, Portman Square; in 1810, Queen Street, 
 Mayfair. He died in 1816 at No. 14 Savile Row, Burling- 
 ton Gardens, in the house marked by the tablet of the 
 Society of Arts; and he is supposed to have lived for a short 
 
 18
 
 274 RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN. [1751-1816. 
 
 time at No. 17 Saville Row, where half a century later was 
 carefully kept a cast of his hand, with the inscription, 
 ' Good at a fight, better at a play, 
 Godlike in giving ; but the Devil to pay.' 
 
 Sheridan's ghost is believed to haunt a certain upper 
 back room in this house ; and during its occupancy by the 
 Saville Club, the scratching of his pen, it is said, was often 
 heard in the silence of the early morning hours. 
 
 He was buried from the house of his friend Mr. Peter 
 Moore, in Great George Street, Westminster, 'in the only 
 spot that remained unoccupied in Poets' Corner.' 
 
 In 1815 Sheridan was arrested for debt and taken to a 
 'lock-up house' in Took's Court, Cursitor Street, Chancery 
 Lane. 
 
 February 7. Fox never wrote his speeches, was fond of pre- 
 paring them in travelling, as he said a post-chaise was the best 
 Greviiie Me- place to arrange his thoughts in. Sheridan wrote and 
 moirs, 1836. prepared a great deal, and generally in bed, with his 
 books, pen, and ink on the bed, where he would lie all day. 
 
 Sheridan's clubs were Brook's, still at No. 60 St. James's 
 Street in 1885, and the Eccentric, which met first in a 
 tavern in Chandos Street, Covent Garden, then at the Crown 
 in Vinegar Yard, Drury Lane, taken down some years ago, 
 and later at Tom Rees's, in May's Buildings, where it 
 flourished as late as the middle of the nineteenth century. 
 May's Buildings is a short street connecting St. Martin's 
 Lane with Bedfordbury. 
 
 Immediately after the brilliant success of 'The Rivals,' 
 Sheridan was proposed by Dr. Johnson himself, and elected, 
 a member of The Club (see GOLDSMITH, p. 123). 
 
 He was a frequenter of the Bedford Coffee House, in the 
 Piazza, Covent Garden (see CHURCHILL, p. 51); the One Tun 
 Tavern, in St. James's Market, Jermyn Street, near the Hay- 
 market, and long since taken down ; and, according to
 
 1594-1666.] JAMES SHIRLEY. 275 
 
 Moore's Diary, he was in the habit of stopping at the Adam 
 and Eve, opposite Holland House, where he left his bills 
 to be paid by Lord Holland. 
 
 The Adam and Eve has disappeared; but a very new 
 structure in the same line of business, and bearing the old 
 name, was erected on its site, in Kensington Eoad, near 
 Shaftesbury House, and opposite Argyll Road. 
 
 Sheridan occasionally pledged his valuables at the shop 
 of one Harrison, a pawnbroker at No. 95 Wardour Street, 
 renumbered 143 Wardour Street, on the corner of Edward 
 Street, where, in the same old house, the business was still 
 carried on under the same name in 1885. 
 
 JAMES SHIRLEY. 
 
 1594-1666. 
 
 JAMES SHIRLEY, according to Anthony Wood, 'was 
 born in, or near, the parish of St. Mary Woolchurch, 
 where the stocks market now [1690] is.' This church, 
 which stood on the site of the Mansion House, was destroyed 
 in the Great Ffre and never rebuilt. Shirley was educated 
 at the Merchant Taylors' School, which stood on the east 
 side of Suffolk Lane, Upper Thames Street, but was taken 
 down when the school was removed to the Charter House 
 in 1872. 
 
 He was a member of the Society of Gray's Inn, and lived 
 for some time in Gray's Inn Lane, where he wrote the 
 earliest of his dramatic works. During a portion of the 
 Commonwealth he was a school-teacher somewhere in White- 
 friars, and was living in Fleet Street near the Inner Temple 
 Gate at the close of his life.
 
 276 PHILIP SIDNEY. [1554-1587-8. 
 
 Shirley's house in Fleet Street having been burnt to the ground 
 in the Great Fire of 1666, he was compelled to seek refuge in the 
 Jesse's Lon neighboring village of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, whither, 
 don, vol. iii. : however, he retired only to die. As has been already 
 mentioned, the loss of his property, added, probably, 
 to the horrors of the terrible conflagration which he had witnessed, 
 gave such a shock to his constitution that he survived the event 
 scarcely twenty-four hours. 
 
 Shirley and his wife, who died within a few hours of each 
 other, were buried in one grave in the yard of the Church 
 of St. Giles-in-the-Fields (see MABVELL, p. 208). 
 
 PHILIP SIDNEY. 
 
 1554-1587-8. 
 
 IDNEY was not a native of London, although his father 
 and grandfather lived in Threadneedle Street, where, 
 no doubt, a portion of his own youth was spent. He has left 
 but few traces of his life in town, except in court circles. 
 He was a member of Gray's Inn, and is naturally believed to 
 have been a frequent visitor at Crosby Place in Bishopsgate 
 Street (see SHAKSPERE, p. 269), when it was the residence of 
 ' Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother,' to whom his ' Arca- 
 dia ' was dedicated, and by whom, after his death, it was 
 published. 
 
 Sidney was buried in Old St. Paul's Cathedral with no 
 little pomp, his body having previously lain in state in the 
 Minories after its arrival from the field of Zutphen, where his 
 death-wound was received. The wooden monument erected 
 to his memory was of course destroyed, with the cathedral, 
 in the Great Fire.
 
 1775-1849.] JAMES AND HORACE SMITH. 277 
 
 The great Sir Philip Sidney, who was publicly buried at 
 St. Paul's Cathedral in 1587, was a brother of the i^oi,,.,, 
 Grocers' Company, and was attended by that livery in ^ u |^ ess of 
 all their formalities, who were preceded by the Lord Elizabeth, 
 Mayor, Aldermen, and Sheriffs ' rydinge in purple.' 
 
 The Grocers' Hall, damaged in the Great Fire, and after- 
 wards restored, stood in 1885, as it stood in Sidney's day, 
 at the end of Grocers' Hall Court, opposite No. 11 Poultry. 
 
 JAMES SMITH. 
 
 1775-1839. 
 
 HOEACE SMITH. 
 
 1779-1849. 
 
 T AMES and Horace Smith were born at No. 36 Basinghall 
 J Street, London Wall, in one of the three or four old- 
 fashioned houses still left in that old-fashioned street in 
 1885. It stood in a small court on the east side. 
 
 James Smith lived for some time at No. 18 Austin Friars, 
 in a house at the end of the lane, also unaltered in 1885. 
 
 A second James Smith, coming to the place [Austin Friars] 
 after he had been many years a resident there, pro- 
 duced so much confusion to both that the last comer ham's Hand- 
 waited on the author and suggested, to prevent further Eondon : 
 inconvenience, that one or other had better leave, hint- ^;] stin 
 ing at the same time that he should like to stay. ' No,' 
 said the wit, ' T am James the First ! You are James the 
 Second ; you must abdicate.'
 
 278 SYDNEY SMITH. [1771-1845. 
 
 He spent the last years of his life at No. 27 Craven 
 Street, Strand, afterwards a private hotel, where he died. 
 He was buried in the neighboring Church of St. Martin-in- 
 the-Fields. 
 
 For some years before his death he [James Smith] suffered a 
 good deal from gout ; but while hobbling on his crutches, or being 
 
 wheeled about in his bath-chair, be retained an almost 
 Memoirs 
 
 of the youthful buoyancy of mind, ref erring with glee to the 
 
 Countess of " ,. f f .. i i r- i 
 
 Blessing- merry meetings of former times, indulging in nis pleas- 
 
 chap V< xiv 1 an * m des of jest and anecdotes, or singing with his 
 nieces from morning to night. He died on the 24tli 
 of December, 1839, in his house in Craven Street, as he lived, a 
 merry bachelor, ' with all the calmness of a philosopher,' we are 
 told, but of what school we are left in ignorance. Peace, however, 
 to the ashes of James Smith, which are deposited in the vault of 
 St. Martin's Church. 
 
 James Smith was a member of the Athenaeum Club on 
 Pall Mall, the Union Club at the southwest corner of Tra- 
 falgar Square, and the Garrick, which, in his day, stood 
 at No. 35 King Street, Covent Garden, but which in 1864 
 was removed to No. 15 Garrick Street, Long Acre (see 
 THACKERAY). 
 
 Horace Smith was a member of the London Stock Ex- 
 change. Making a moderate fortune there, he retired to 
 Tunbridge Wells, where he died, and was buried, in 1849. 
 
 SYDNEY SMITH. 
 
 1771-1845. 
 
 O YDNEY SMITH, who was bora at Woodford in Essex, 
 **f a few miles from London, established himself in 1804 
 at No. 8 Doughty Street, Mecklenburgh Square, a house
 
 1771-1845.] SYDNEY SMITH. 279 
 
 unchanged eighty years Inter (see DICKENS, p. 82), and about 
 the same time was appointed evening preacher to the Found- 
 ling Hospital, where his salary was fifty pounds a year. 
 Two years afterwards he removed to No. 18 Orchard Street, 
 Portman Square, a two-storied red brick house, still 
 standing in 1885. 
 
 In this house his means were slightly increased, yet he still 
 remained poor. . . . But the pleasantest society at his house was 
 to be found in the little suppers which he established 
 once a week ; giving a general invitation to about laud's He- 
 twenty or thirty persons, who used to come as they Revfsydney 
 pleased. ... At these suppers there was no attempt Bn ?% 
 at display, nothing to tempt the palate ; but they were 
 most eagerly sought after, and were I to begin enumerating the 
 guests usually to be found there, no one would wonder that they 
 were so. 
 
 Here he remained until he left London for Yorkshire in 
 1809. 
 
 In 1831 he was appointed to a prebeudal stall in St. 
 Paul's Cathedral, and writing to a friend he says : 
 
 I have just taken possession of my preferment. The house is 
 
 in Amen Corner, an awkward name on a card, and 
 
 . . i . Letters and 
 
 an awkward annunciation to the coachman on leaving Correspond- 
 any fashionable mansion. I find too (sweet discov- Sydney 
 ery ! ) that I give a dinner, every Sunday for three Smith > 1831 - 
 months in the year, to six clergymen and six singing-men, at 
 one o'clock. 
 
 The residences of the Dean and Canons of St. Paul's are 
 still in Amen Court, Amen Corner, Paternoster Row. 
 
 During Sydney Smith's many visits to London he stayed 
 at Holland House (see ADDISON, p. 3) ; in Hertford Street, 
 Mayfair ; at No. 20 Savile Row, Burlington Gardens ; at 
 No. 18 Stratford Place, Oxford Street (unchanged in 1885) ; 
 in Wey mouth Street, Portland Place ; etc. Between the
 
 280 TOBIAS SMOLLETT. [1721-1771. 
 
 years 1834 and 1839 he occupied the house No. 33 Charles 
 Street, Berkeley Square, next to the corner of Queen Street, 
 when he removed to No. 56 Green Street, Grosvenor Square 
 (No. 59 in 1885), and to this house in 1845 he was brought 
 from Combe-Florey to die. 
 
 He was buried by his own desire, as quietly as possible, in 
 Kensal Green ; and his wife and son lie there by his side. 
 
 Those who wish to make a pilgrimage to the grave of Sydney 
 
 Smith will be glad to know that they can easily find it by follow- 
 
 ing the north walk until they are opposite the entrance 
 
 Reid's to the Catacombs. Turning to the left at that point, 
 
 Sydney they will discover, in the fifth row from the walk, a 
 
 raised tomb of Portland stone. . . . With the solitary- 
 exception of a small painted window in the church at 
 
 Combe-Florey, the grave in Kensal Green is the only memorial to 
 
 Sydney Smith which England has to show. 
 
 Smith was a member of the King of Clubs, founded by 
 his brother, which met at the Crown and Anchor in the 
 Strand (see ROGEBS, p. 258) ; and of The Club (see GOLD- 
 SMITH, p. 123, and JOHNSON, p. 167), to which he was elected 
 in 1838. 
 
 TOBIAS SMOLLETT. 
 1721-1771. 
 
 OMOLLETT came first to London in 1739, and describes 
 w ^ his journey hither in ' Roderick Random,' a novel 
 which is believed to be in a great measure autobiograph- 
 ical. His first settled home was in Downing Street, where 
 in 1744 he was practising, or seeking to practise, as a sur- 
 geon. In 1746 he was in humble lodgings in Curzon
 
 1721-1771.] TOBIAS SMOLLETT. 281 
 
 Street, May fair; and in 1747 he married and took a more 
 pretentious house, where he lived beyond his means, and 
 wrote ' Roderick Random,' published by Osbourne in Gray's 
 Inn Lane, in 1748. In 1750 he went to Chelsea, where he 
 lived until he left England never to return. 
 
 His Chelsea home, called Monmouth House, stood at the 
 end of Lawrence Street, at the junction of Upper Cheyne 
 Row, a large double house, still remembered in the parish, 
 and taken down only a few years ago. His life here is 
 described by himself in ' Humphrey Clinker,' in a letter of 
 Jerry Mulford : 
 
 Dick Ivy carried me to dine with S [Smollett], whom you 
 
 and I have long known by his writings. He lives in the skirts of 
 the town ; and every Sunday his house is open to all unfortunate 
 brothers of the quill, whom he treats with beef, pudding, and 
 potatoes, port, punch, and Calvert's entire butt-beer. ... I was 
 civilly received in a plain yet decent habitation, which opened 
 backwards into a very pleasant garden, kept in excellent order ; 
 and indeed I saw none of the outward signs of authorship, either 
 in the house or the landlord, who is one of those few writers of 
 the age that stand upon their own foundation, without patronage 
 and above dependence. If there was nothing characteristic in 
 the entertainer, the company made ample amends for his want of 
 singularity. At two o'clock I found myself one of ten messmates 
 at a table ; and I question if the whole kingdom could produce 
 such another assemblage of originals. . . . After dinner we ad- 
 journed into the garden, where I observed Mr. S gave a 
 
 short, separate audience to every individual, in a small remote 
 filbert walk, from whence most of them dropped off, one after 
 another, without further ceremony ; but they were replaced by 
 other recruits of the same class, who came to make an afternoon's 
 visit. 
 
 Monmouth House was the original Lawrence Manor 
 House. Its gardens have entirely disappeared ; the play- 
 grounds of the new Board School covering their site.
 
 282 THOMAS SOUTHERNE. 11660-1746. 
 
 From internal evidences, and from the dates of publica- 
 tion, ' Humphrey Clinker ' and ' Sir Launcelot Greaves ' were 
 written in Chelsea. ' Peregrine Pickle ' was ' Printed for the 
 Author at Plato's Head, near Round Court, in the Strand, 
 in 1751,' and was probably written in London. 
 
 Plato's Head was on the north side of the Strand, nearly 
 opposite Buckingham Street. Round Court, which extendeo 
 back to the present King William Street, disappeared in 
 1829, when the Strand Improvement Act was carried into 
 effect. 
 
 Smollett frequented all the coffee-houses of his day, 
 Tom's, Will's, the Cocoa Tree, etc. (see ADDISON) ; but his 
 favorite tavern was that to which his fellow-Scotchmen, in 
 their clannish way, were wont to go, the British Coffee 
 House, in Cockspur Street (still standing in 1885), between 
 Warwick Street and Spring Gardens. 10 
 
 At Chelsea he was often to be found at Don Saltero's 
 Coffee House, which stood at No. 18 Cheyne Walk, facing 
 the river, and was kept as a public house as late as 1870. 
 It is fully described by Steele in the ' Tatler ' (see STEELE). 
 In 1885 it was a private dwelling. 
 
 THOMAS SOUTHEENE. 
 
 1660-1746. 
 
 OOUTHERNE was a member of the Middle Temple in 
 ^ 1678, but he has left no traces of his life in London 
 until his later years. 
 
 In William Oldys's Manuscript Notes to Langbaiue is to 
 be found the following description of Southerne :
 
 1660-1746.1 THOMAS SOUTHERNS. 283 
 
 I remember him a grave and reserved old gentleman. He lived 
 near Covent Garden, and used to frequent the evening prayers 
 there [at St. Paul's Church], always neat and decently dressed, 
 commonly in black, with his silver sword and silver locks ; but 
 latterly he seemed to reside in Westminster. 
 
 He [Southerne] was a perfect gentleman ; he did not lounge 
 away his days or nights in coffee-houses or taverns, but after 
 labor cultivated friendship in home circles, where vir- 
 tue and modest mirth sat at the hearth. ... He kept Annals of 
 the even tenor of his way, owing no man anything ; vol. l^ 86 ' 
 never allowing his nights to be the marrer of his cba1 '- x - 
 mornings ; and at six-and-eighty carrying a bright eye, a steady 
 hand, a clear head, and a warm heart wherewith to calmly meet 
 and make surrender of all to the Inevitable Angel. 
 
 Among the footnotes to an edition of Wood's 'Athense 
 Oxonienses ' published in the middle of the last century, is a 
 letter from Southerne dated ' From Mr. Whyte's, Oylman 
 in Tothil Fields, against Dartmouth Street, 1737.' 
 
 Southerne, the poet 
 
 ' Tom sent down to raise 
 The price of prologues and of plays,' 
 
 lived for many years at Mr. Whyte's, an oilman's, in Tothill 
 Street, against Dartmouth Street. The house is still [1850] an 
 
 oilman's shop. On calling there in the year 1841, 
 
 J ' Cunning- 
 
 when the house was undergoing, as I thought, too ham's Hand- 
 effectual and radical a repair, Mr. Mucklow, the then Londo'u' : 
 tenant, informed me that his father had the busi- g^^ 1 
 ness of a man named Girder, and Girder had the 
 business of a man named Whyte. He knew nothing of 
 Southerne, but had seen and admired Mrs. Siddons as Isabella 
 in 'The Fatal Marriage.' The house had the date of 1671 upon 
 it ; and the balustraded balcony at the top was added when the 
 repairs were made. 
 
 Mr. Cunningham does not give the number of this house ; 
 but the address of Mr. Mucklow the oilman, in the London
 
 284 ROBERT SOUTHEY. [1774-1843. 
 
 Directory for 1840, was No. 4 Tothill Street. This build- 
 ing, by that strange fatality so frequently observed, has been 
 taken down, while contemporary houses which have no lit- 
 erary associations remain. In 1885, No. 4, 'over against 
 Dartmouth Street/ was the modern Cock Tavern, but in the 
 front of it was still preserved the old stone, bearing date 
 1671. 
 
 Southerne died in Smith Street, Westminster, and was 
 buried in the Church of St. Paul, Covent Garden, although 
 at the present day the position of his grave is unknown 
 (see BUTLER, p. 29). The old Church of St. Paul was 
 destroyed by fire in 1795. 
 
 KOBEKT SOUTHEY. 
 
 1774-1843. 
 
 OOUTHEY was sent to Westminster School (see CHURCH- 
 ^ ILL, p. 51) in March, 1788 ; but nothing of interest is 
 recorded of his experiences there, except that he left in dis- 
 grace in 1792, because of an article he had written in a 
 school magazine. In 1797 he entered Gray's Inn, his ad- 
 dress being 'at Mr. Peacock's, at 20 Prospect Place, New- 
 ington Butts, near London.' Prospect Place has since been 
 called Deacon Street, Walworth Road. The entire neigh- 
 borhood has been renamed, renumbered, and rebuilt. He 
 remained then, as in later years, but a short time in town, 
 and he was rarely to be seen here. In November, 1823, he 
 made a visit to the Lambs, at Colebrook Cottage, Islington 
 (see LAMB, p. 191), and was always a welcome guest at the 
 home of Murray the publisher, No. 50 A, Albemarle Street 
 (see BYRON, p. 34), and at Rogers's house in No. 22 St.
 
 1553-1599.] EDMUND SPENSER. 285 
 
 James's Place, St. James's Street. He is also known to 
 have enjoyed the society of Lamb and Coleridge in the 
 humble rooms of the Salutation and Cat, No. 17 Newgate 
 Street (see COLERIDGE, p. 60). 
 
 Southey's opinion of London, and of its effect upon him, 
 is thus expressed in a letter written to a friend in 1806 : 
 
 London disorders me by over-stimulation. Company, to a cer- 
 tain extent, intoxicates me. I do not often commit the fault of 
 talking too much, but very often say what would be better left 
 unsaid, and that too in a manner not to be easily forgotten. . . . 
 And so it is that the society of any except my friends, though it 
 be sweet in the mouth, is bitter in the belly. 
 
 EDMUND SPENSER 
 
 Circa 1553-1599. 
 
 T 7ERY little can be gathered of Spenser's life in London, 
 * except the vague facts that he was born in East Smith- 
 field, near Tower Hill ; that he was educated at the Merchant 
 Taylors' School, which then stood in Suffolk Lane, Upper 
 Thames Street (see SHIRLEY, p. 275) ; that he was often at 
 Essex House, formerly Exeter House, on the site of Devereux 
 Court and Essex Street, Strand (see LOCKE, p. 197), and at 
 Leicester House, which stood on the north side of Leicester 
 Square, its gardens extending back to Lisle Street ; and 
 that, dying of a broken heart in King Street, Westminster 
 (see PEPYS, p. 233), he was buried near Chaucer, in the 
 Poets' Corner, receiving a monumental stone, when dead, 
 from the men who are supposed to have neglected him 
 living, and to have refused him the bread for which he 
 asked.
 
 286 EDMUND SPENSER. [1553-1599. 
 
 It was distinctly in Spenser's poetical character that he received 
 
 the honors of a funeral from Devereux, Earl of Essex. His hearse 
 
 was attended by poets, and mournful elegies and poems, 
 
 Westminster with the pens that wrote them, were thrown into his 
 
 Abbey, tomb. What a funeral was that at which Beaumont, 
 chap. iv. 
 
 Fletcher, Jonson, and in all probability Shakspere 
 
 attended ! what a grave, in which the pen of Shakspere may be 
 mouldering away ! In the original inscription, long ago effaced, 
 the vicinity of Chaucer is expressly stated as the reason for the 
 selection of the spot. . . . The inscription in pathos and sim- 
 plicity is worthy of the author of the ' Faery Queen,' but curious 
 as implying the unconsciousness of any greater than he at that 
 very time to claim the title then given to him of the ' Prince of 
 Poets.' 
 
 Drummond, of Hawthornden, in his ' Conversations ' with 
 Ben Jonson, quotes the latter as giving the following account 
 of Spenser's death : 
 
 The Irish having robbed Spenser's goods and burnt his house 
 and a little child new born, he and his wife escaped ; and after he 
 died for lack of bread in King Street, and refused twenty pieces 
 sent him by the Earl of Essex, adding he had no time to spend 
 them. 
 
 Drummond, the Father of Interviewers, is not always 
 reliable in his reports of what his beloved, honored, and 
 worthy friend said of Spenser or of others; and later his- 
 torians are inclined to believe that Spenser's last days, 
 although miserable enough, were not so utterly wretched aa 
 are here described. He certainly received immediate post- 
 humous honors of no common kind.
 
 1671-1729.] RICHARD STEELE. 287 
 
 EICHARD STEELE. 
 
 1671-1729. 
 
 OTEELE, according to the baptismal register quoted by 
 ^ Henry R. Montgomery in his ' Memoir ' (Edinburgh, 
 1865), was born in 1671, although nearly all earlier sketches 
 of his career place the date as 1675 or 1676. He was sent to 
 the Charter House in 1684, three years before Addison left 
 that establishment for Oxford ; and he himself did not enter 
 the university until two years after his distinguished friend. 
 The fact of this difference in their school course, and the 
 strange fact that nowhere in the lives of either of them is 
 any hint given of their association while in the university, 
 would perhaps throw some doubts upon the truth of the 
 picture so charmingly painted by Thackeray, of their devo- 
 tion to each other while Charter House boys (see ADDISON, 
 p. 1), particularly as Steele, though in a lower class, was 
 Addison's senior in age by more than a year. 
 
 I am afraid no good report could be given by his masters and 
 ushers of that thick-set, square-faced, black-ej r ed, soft-hearted 
 little Irish boy. He was very idle. He was whipped 
 
 Thackeray's 
 deservedly a great number of times. . . . Besides being Eugiish 
 
 very kind, lazy, and good-natured, the boy went invari- L C " ' 
 
 ably into debt with the tart-woman ; ran out of bounds, 
 and entered into pecuniary or rather promissory en- 
 gagements with the neighboring lollipop-venders and pie-men, 
 exhibited an early fondness for drinking mum and sack, and 
 borrowed from all his comrades who had money to lend. . . . 
 Addison did his best themes. Addison wrote his exercises. He 
 ran on Addison's messages, fagged for him, and blacked his boots ; 
 to be in Joe's company was Dick's greatest pleasure, and he took 
 a sermon or a caning from his monitor with the most boundless 
 reverence, acquiescence, and affection.
 
 288 RICHARD STEELE. [1671-1729. 
 
 Steele is said to have behaved to Addison in society with a 
 marked deference, very uncommon and striking between old 
 
 comrades, equal in age, and nearly so in all things ex- 
 ANtm's Life cepting genius and conduct. In private, however, 
 chap d< vii n> ttere can be kttle doubt that they associated together 
 
 on terms of great familiarity and confidence, and were 
 frequent depositaries of the literary projects of each other. 
 
 Of Steele's life in London until the death of his first wife, 
 and his marriage to the second in 1707, not much is known. 
 To his dear Prue, however, he writes from Smith Street, 
 Westminster, from Chelsea, and from many coffee-houses 
 and taverns, of which more anon. In October, 1707, he 
 took the house which was ' the last house but two on the 
 left hand of Berry [or Bury] Street, St. James's,' or, as he 
 addresses her later, ' at the third house, right hand turning 
 out of Germain [Jermyn] Street.' Here they lived while 
 in town until 1712, when they went to Bloomsbury Square. 
 This Bury Street House, described by Peter Cunningham 
 as standing 'over against No. 20,' was taken down in 
 1830. 
 
 They remained in Bloomsbury Square, ' in the prettiest 
 house, to receive the prettiest woman, his own sweet Prue,' 
 for three years. In 1715 he writes to her 'at her house 
 over against Park Place, St. James's Street,' where three 
 years later Lady Steele died. She was buried in the south 
 transept of Westminster Abbey, near the Poets' Corner. It 
 was while they were living in Park Place probably for he 
 was then described as Sir Richard Steele that the execu- 
 tion for rent gave Steele the chance of displaying his cool- 
 ness under difficulties as told by Johnson in his ' Life of 
 Savage : ' 
 
 Sir Richard Steele one day having invited to his house a great 
 number of persons of the first quality, they were surprised at the 
 number of liveries which surrounded the table ; and after dinner,
 
 1671-1729.] RICHARD STEELE. 289 
 
 when wine and mirth had set them free from the observations of a 
 rigid ceremony, one of them inquired of Sir Eichard how such an 
 expensive train of domestics could be consistent with his fortune. 
 Sir Richard very frankly confessed that they were fellows of 
 whom he would willingly be rid. And then, being asked why he 
 did not discharge them, declared that they were bailiffs, who had 
 introduced themselves with an execution, and whom, since he 
 could not send them away, he had thought it convenient to em- 
 bellish with liveries, that they might do him credit while they 
 stayed. 
 
 Steele had numerous country-houses which he occupied 
 for a shorter or longer period during the summer months. 
 Soon after his second marriage he bought for his wife a pretty 
 little cottage at Hampton Court, which he furnished hand- 
 somely, and which, by way of contrast to the Palace near by, 
 he called the Hovel. In 1708 he wrote to his wife to join 
 him ' at the house of Mrs. Hardresse, at the Square at 
 Kensington, till all things be ready for your greater ease in 
 town.' And in 1712 he retired to Haverstock Hill, it is 
 supposed because of financial trouble. He is said to have 
 composed many papers for the ' Spectator ' here ; and no 
 doubt Pope and his other friends of the Kit Kat Club 
 stopped for him here to carry him to the meetings of the 
 society at the Upper Flask, in Hampstead (see ADDISON, 
 p. 9). 
 
 Still descending Haverstock Hill, we arrive at the site of what 
 was called Steele's Cottage. This cottage stood on the right-hand 
 side of the road in a garden opposite to the public 
 house called The Load of Hay, now [1869] modern- How?tt?s 
 ized, and having much the air of a gin-palace. The Hei^htTof 
 cottage called Steele's Cottage, after Sir Richard Steele, London : 
 
 r . ' Hampstead. 
 
 was oi late years divided into two dwellings, and had 
 
 the name of Steele's Cottage painted 011 the front. . . . The long 
 line of the new street called Adelaide Road bounded the open 
 ground at the back, at no great distance. . . . The tenants in- 
 formed me that they had notice to quit, and that in about another 
 
 19
 
 290 RICHAKD STEELE. [1671-1729. 
 
 year it would be swept away. This was verified hi the spring of 
 1867, and Steele's Cottage now exists only in engravings. 
 
 The Load of Hay in 1885 was numbered 94 Haverstock 
 Hill. 'Sir Richard Steele's Tavern,' No. 97 Haverstock Hill, 
 and ' Steele's Studios,' in the same thoroughfare, perpetuate 
 his name there. 
 
 Faulkner, in his ' Chelsea,' says : ' Steele appears from 
 the parish books to have rented a house by the water-side 
 at 14 per annum.' Its site is not known. In the reg- 
 ister of Chelsea Church is recorded also the burial of one 
 ' Margaret, daughter of Edward Seat, from Sir Richard 
 Steele's, November 12, 1715.' 
 
 After Lady Steele's death he took a house ' in York 
 Buildings,' Villiers Street, Strand; York Buildings being 
 a general name for the streets and houses erected on the 
 site of York House (see BACON, p. 12). Here he seems to 
 have remained until he left London finally, in 1725. He 
 died and was buried at Carmarthen, Wales, in 1729. 
 
 Not one of Steele's contemporaries was better acquainted 
 than he with the coffee-houses and taverns of his day. 
 Besides being a member of the Kit Kat Club, as has been 
 shown, he frequented the Bull's Head Tavern, Clare Market, 
 probably the tavern of that name at No. 40 Vere Street, on 
 the east side, a few doors from Sheffield Street, and near 
 Clare Market (it tumbled down from sheer old age in 
 1875 or 1876, and a Board School was built on its site) ; 
 the King's Head, Pall Mall ; the Devil Tavern, at Temple 
 Bar (see JONSOX, p. 175) ; the George, in Pall Mall, the 
 site of which is now unknown ; Dick's, No. 8 Fleet Street, 
 in existence in 1885 (see COWPER, p. 67) ; the Fountaine, 
 No. 103 Strand, marked by Fountain Court until the sum- 
 mer of 1884, when its name was changed to Savoy Build- 
 ings (see JOHNSOX, p. 170) ; Lloyd's, at Abchurch Lane, 
 corner of Lombard Street, and no longer standing ; the
 
 1671-1729.] RICHARD STEELE. 291 
 
 St. James's Coffee House (see ADDISON, p. 7) ; the Thatched 
 House, St. James's Street (see MACAULAT, p. 204) ; Button's ; 
 and Will's, in Russell Street, Covent Garden (see ADDISON, 
 pp. 6, 7) ; the Trumpet, in Shire Lane (see ADDISON, p. 8) ; 
 the Grecian, in Devereux Court, Essex Street, Strand (see 
 ADDISOX, p. 7) ; the Hercules' Pillars and the Triumphant 
 Chariot, both at Hyde Park Corner (see SAVAGE, p. 261) ; 
 ' Don Saltero's,' at Chelsea (see SMOLLETT, p. 282) ; and the 
 White Horse, at Chelsea. 
 
 Being of a very spare and hective constitution I aui forced to 
 make frequent journies of a mile or two for fresh Air. . . . When I 
 
 came into the Coffee House I had no Time to salute the 
 
 _, ... _ Steele in 
 
 Company before my Eye was taken by ten thousand the 'Tatler,' 
 
 Gimcracks round the Room, and on the Ceiling. When ' ^ 
 my first astonishment was over comes to me a Sage of a thin 
 and meagre Coimteuance ; which Aspect made me doubt whether 
 Reading or Fretting made him so philosophick. But I very soon 
 perceived him to be of that Sect which the Ancients called Gin- 
 quistae ; in our Language Tooth-Drawers. I immediately had a 
 Respect for the Man ; for these practical Philosophers go upon a 
 very rational Hypothesis, not to cure but to take away the Part 
 affected. My Love of Mankind made me very benevolent to 
 Mr. Salter, for such is the Name of this Eminent Barber and 
 Antiquary. 
 
 Steele at Button's figures in the ' Original Jest Book ' of 
 Joe Miller, as one of the minor characters in a familiar tale 
 localized many times since Steele's day : 
 
 Two gentlemen disputing ahout religion in Button's Coffee 
 House, said one of them, ' I wonder, sir, you should talk of relig- 
 ion when I '11 hold you five guineas you can't say the Lord's 
 Prayer.' ' Done,' said the other ; ' and Sir Richard Steele shall 
 hold the stakes.' The money being deposited, the gentleman 
 began with ' I believe in God,' and so went cleverly through the 
 Creed. ' Well,' said the other, ' I own I have lost. I did not 
 think he could have done it.'
 
 292 LAURENCE STERNE. [171&-1768. 
 
 LATJEENCE STEENE. 
 
 1713-1768. 
 
 O TERNE saw but little of London, though he dearly loved 
 ^ the sensation he created, and the attention he received 
 when he first arrived in town. In 1760 he lodged in Pall 
 Mall, and, according to Dr. Johnson, had engagements for 
 ^ every day and night three months ahead. His stay on this 
 occasion was of little more than the three months' duration, 
 but he lived alone and in lodgings for some time during 
 several subsequent seasons. 
 
 In the fragment of his life written by himself he gives no 
 hint of his movements or mode of living here. 
 
 He died on the 18th of March, 1768, at No. 41 Old Bond 
 Street, ' over the silk-bag shop.' 
 
 From the ' Travels in Various Parts of Europe, Asia, and 
 Africa, by John Macdonald, 1790,' D'Israeli, in his 'Literary 
 Miscellanies,' quotes the following story of Sterne's death. 
 Macdonald was footman to a gentleman of quality. 
 
 ' John,' said my master, ' go and inquire how Mr. Sterne is 
 to-day.' ... I went to Mr. Sterne's lodgings ; the mistress opened 
 the door. I inquired how he did ; she told me to go up to the 
 nurse. I went into the room, and he was just a dying. I waited 
 ten minutes, and in five he said, ' Now it has come.' He put up 
 his hands as if to stop a blow, and died in a minute. 
 
 The house No. 41 Old Bond Street, which was standing 
 in 1885, was older than Sterne's day, and if not the actual 
 house in which he died, it saw his body carried to the grave. 
 Rev. W. J. Loftie, however, than whom there is no better 
 authority in such matters, says in his ' History of Lon- 
 don' (1883), chap. xxi. note that Sterne's house stood on
 
 1713-1768.] LAURENCE STERNE. 293 
 
 the site of the shop of Agnew the picture-dealer, numbered, 
 in 1885, 39 B, Old Bond Street. 
 Sterne was buried March 22. 
 
 And thus duly neglected by the whole crowd of boon compan- 
 ions, the remains of Yorick were consigned to the ' new burying 
 ground near Tyburn,' of the parish of St. George's, 
 Hanover Square. In that now squalid and long- 
 decayed graveyard, within sight of the Marble Arch, ^ ia ?t y iii- : 
 and over against the broad expanse of Hyde Park, Men of 
 is still to be found a tombstone inscribed with some 
 inferior lines to the memory of the departed humorist, and with 
 a statement inaccurate by eight months of the date of his death, 
 and a year as to his age. . . . But wherever the grave really was, 
 the body interred in it, according to the strange story to which I 
 have referred, is no longer there. That story goes that two days 
 after the burial, on the night of the 24th March, the corpse was 
 stolen by body-snatchers and by them disposed to a professor of 
 anatomy at Cambridge ; that the professor invited a few scien- 
 tific friends to witness a demonstration, and that among them was 
 one who had been acquainted with Sterne, and who fainted with 
 horror on recognizing in the already partially dissected ' subject ' 
 the features of his friend. 
 
 This burial-ground of St. George's, Hanover Square, 
 situated in Oxford Street, between Albion and Stanhope 
 Streets, is not so wretched and deserted as Mr. Traill de- 
 scribes it. It is green and well cared for. Entirely shut 
 out from the streets by high walls and houses, its very 
 existence unknown to the thousands who pass by it daily, it 
 is as quiet, secluded, and peaceful as a country churchyard, 
 and in refreshing contrast with some of the modern garish 
 cemeteries of the metropolis. Sterne's memorial, a high but 
 plain flat stone, stands next to the centre of the west wall of 
 the grounds, under a spreading flourishing old tree, whose 
 lower branches and leaves almost touch it. The inscription 
 is worth preserving, and is here given entire :
 
 294 JOHN SUCKLING. [1608 . 
 
 Alas, Poor Yorick. 
 
 Near to this Place 
 
 Lies the body of 
 
 The Reverend Laurence Sterue 
 
 Dyed September 13 1768 
 
 Aged 53 Years. 
 
 Ah ! Molliter, ossa quiescant. 
 If a sound head, warm heart and breast humane, 
 Unsully'd worth, and soul without a stain, 
 If mental powers could ever justly claim 
 The well won tribute of immortal fame, 
 STERNE was the MAN who with gigantic stride 
 Mow'd down luxuriant follies far and wide, 
 Yet what though keenest knowledge of mankind 
 Unseal'd to him the Springs that move the mind. 
 What did it boot him, Ridicul'd, abus'd 
 By foes insulted and by prudes accus'd. 
 In his, mild reader view thy future fate, 
 Like him despise what t'were a sin to hate. 
 
 This monumental stone was erected to the memory of the deceased 
 by two Brother Masons, for although he did not live to be a member 
 of their Society, yet all his uncomparable Performances evidently prove 
 him to have acted by Rule and Square ; they rejoice in this opportu- 
 nity of perpetuating his high and unapproachable character to after 
 ages. W. & S. 
 
 JOHN SUCKLING. 
 
 1608 . 
 
 TICKLING was born at Whitton, in the parish of Twick- 
 enham. He is described by Aubrey as an extraordi- 
 nary accomplished gentleman who grew famous at Court for 
 his readie sparkling witt, as being uncomparably readie at 
 repartying, and as the greatest gallant of his time. In 
 person, according to the same authority, he was of middle
 
 1608 ] JOHN SUCKLING. 295 
 
 stature and slight strength, brisque eie, reddish fac't and 
 red nose, (ill liver) his head not very big, his hayre a kind 
 of sand colour. Cunningham says he lived in St. Martin's 
 Lane in 1641. He died, a batchelor, in Paris, and of poyson, 
 Aubrey believes, in 1646, and at the age of twenty-eight. 
 Rev. Alfred Suckling, in his ' Biography ' of the poet, writ- 
 ten in 1836, says that the date of his death is unknown, 
 although it was unquestionably earlier than 1642. 
 
 Suckling's favorite sister is known to have lived in Bishops- 
 gate Street, and he was frequently in her house there, which 
 contained the original portrait of Suckling, by Vandyke, en- 
 graved by Vertue, and well known to print-collectors. 
 
 He was a frequenter of the Bear-at-the-Bridge-Foot, a 
 tavern which stood at the Southwark end of Old London 
 Bridge until 1761, about a hundred feet east of the present 
 structure (see PEPYS, p. 238) ; and Aubrey, in whose pages 
 we get the fullest account of him, shows him to have been 
 ' one of the best bowlers of his time in England. He play'd 
 at Cards rarely well, and did use to practise by himself abed, 
 and there studyed the best way of managing the Cards. I 
 remember his Sisters comeing to the Piccadillo, Bowling 
 Green, crying for feare he should lose all their portions.' 
 
 ' Piccadillo Hall, erected in the fields beyond the mewse, 
 a faire House and two Bowling Greenes ' was on the corner 
 of Windmill and Coventry Streets. It stood until the end 
 of the seventeenth century ; and the Argyll Rooms, No. 9 
 Great Windmill Street, east side, were built upon the site of 
 its tennis court. 
 
 With all his graces and accomplishments, Suckling has 
 left nothing behind him but his immortal description of the 
 fair bride whose 
 
 ' feet beneath her petticoat 
 Like little mice stole in and out, 
 As if they feared the light.'
 
 296 EMANUEL SWEDENBOKG. [1688-1772. 
 
 E3VIANUEL SWEDENBORG. 
 
 168&-1772. 
 
 O WEDENBOEG received his first spiritual manifestations 
 ^ 'at an inn in London' in 1744. 8 He had been here 
 before as a student (1710 to 1713); and he made other 
 and subsequent visits to town, lodging in later years at 
 No. 26 Great Bath Street, Coldbath Fields, where he died 
 in 1772. His house is no longer standing. No. 26 Great 
 Bath Street, between Warner Street and Coldbath Square, 
 on the west side of the way, was a rusty little house in 
 1885, but probably not more than half a century old. The 
 street has not been renumbered. 
 
 Upon this Swedenborg raised himself up in bed, and placing 
 
 his hand upon his breast, said with earnestness : ' Everything 
 
 that I have written is as true as you now behold me ; 
 
 History of I might have said much more had it been permitted 
 
 ch e ap ke WdI ' me - After death y u wm see &> ^ then we will 
 have much to say to each other on this subject.' He 
 told the people of the house what day he should die ; and, as 
 Shearsmith's maid reported, he was pleased with the anticipation ; 
 his pleasure was, according to the maid's comparison, like that 
 which she would have felt if she had been going to have a holiday 
 or some merry-making. His faculties were clear to the last. On 
 Sunday, the 29th March, 1772, hearing the clock strike, he asked 
 his landlady and her maid, who were both at his bedside, what 
 o'clock it was, and upon being answered, he said, ' It is well. I 
 thank you, God bless you,' and then in a moment after he gently 
 gave up the ghost. 
 
 He is buried in the Swedish Church, Prince's Square, 
 Ratcliffe Highway (since called St. George's Street), a mural 
 tablet recording the fact.
 
 1667-1745.] JONATHAN SWIFT. 297 
 
 I give one more example of robbing the grave of an illustrious 
 man, through the superstition of many and the cupidity of one. 
 ... In 1790, in order to determine a question raised 
 in debate, whether Swedenborg was really dead and b y. s g h f ' 
 buried, his wooden coffin was opened, and the leaden pere's Bones, 
 one was sawn across the breast. A few days after, a 
 party of Swedenborgians visited the vault. ' Various relics ' 
 (says White, 'Life of Swedenborg,' 2d ed., 1868, p. 675) 'were 
 carried off. Dr. Spurgin told me he possessed the cartilage of 
 an ear. Exposed to the air, the flesh quickly fell to dust, and a 
 skeleton was all that remained for subsequent visitors. ... At 
 a funeral in 1817, Granholm, an officer in the Swedish Navy, 
 seeing the lid of Swedenborg's coffin loose, abstracted the skull, 
 and hawked it about amongst London Swedenborgians, but none 
 would buy. Dr. Wahlin, pastor of the Swedish Church, recovered 
 what he supposed to be the stolen skull, had a cast of it taken, 
 and placed it in the coffin in 1819.' 
 
 JONATHAN SWIFT. 
 
 1667-1745. 
 
 WIFT, in his ' Journals and Correspondence,' has given 
 but few hints of his various London lodging-houses, 
 and these are generally indistinct and vague. He was at 
 one time in King Street, between St. James's Street and 
 St. James's Square ; he was the guest of Sir Andrew Foun- 
 taine 'at his house in Leicester Fields,' and he speaks of 
 lodging ' over against the house in Little Ryder Street,' 
 afterwards Ryder Street, St. James's. Within a few 
 months, in 1710, he is known to have occupied three 
 different sets of chambers. 
 
 September 20. I change my lodgings in Pall Mall for one in 
 Bury Street [St. James's], where I suppose I shall continue while 
 in London. . .
 
 298 JONATHAN SWIFT. [1667-1745. 
 
 September 29. I lodge in Bury Street, where I removed a week 
 g wi f t > s ago. I have the first floor, a dining and bed chamber, 
 
 Journal to a t eight shillings a week, plaguy dear ; but I spend 
 nothing for eating, never go to a tavern, and very sel- 
 dom in a coach ; yet, after all, it mil be expensive. . . . 
 
 December 28. I came home to my new lodgings in St. Alban's 
 Street [Haymarket], where I pay the same rent for an apartment 
 two pair of stairs ; but I have the use of the parlor to receive 
 persons of quality. 
 
 St. Alban's Street was completely demolished on the con- 
 struction of Waterloo Place. It is not to be confounded 
 with the present St. Albans Place, which was then Market 
 Lane, and ran to Pall Mall as an outlet of St. James's 
 Market (see BAXTER, p. 18). 
 
 In 1711 Swift was lodging in Chelsea, to which village 
 he frequently walked from town. 
 
 I leave my best gown and periwig at Mrs. Van Homrigh's, 
 then walk up Pall Mall, out at Buckingham House [afterwards 
 Swift's Let- Buckingham Palace], and so to Chelsea, a little beyond 
 ters, 1711. ^e c h urc h_ i se t; ou t a k ou t sunset, and get there in 
 something less than an hour. It is two good miles, and just 
 5,748 steps. 
 
 His house was in ' Church Lane, half a mile beyond 
 Chelsea Church.' Church Lane, afterwards Church Street, 
 runs from the river to Fulham Road, near which Swift must 
 have lived. 
 
 From Chelsea he removed to Suffolk Street, Haymarket, 
 to be near the Van Homrighs. 
 
 It is not pleasant to have old places altered which are connected 
 with interesting recollections, even if the place or recollection 
 Leigh Hunt's ^ e none f the pleasantest. When the houses in 
 The Town, Suffolk Street were pulled down, we could not help 
 
 chap. ix. r 
 
 regretting that the abode was among them in which 
 
 poor Miss Van Homrigh lived, who died for love of Swift. She 
 resided there with her mother, the widow of a Dutch merchant,
 
 1667-1745.] JONATHAN SWIFT. 
 
 and had a fortune. Swift, while in Engknd upon the affairs of 
 the Irish Church, was introduced to them, and became so intimate 
 as to leave his bed-gown and cassock there for convenience. He 
 found the coffee also very pleasant. 
 
 He next moved to St. Martin's Street, Leicester Fields, 
 and a month later to Panton Street, Haymarket. In 1712 
 he lodged for a time ' in the Gravel Pits, Kensington,' a 
 name given generally, in his day and later, to the region 
 north and northwest of Kensington, between Netting Hill, 
 Bayswater, Kensington Palace, and Holland House, and 
 since called Campden Hill. 
 
 In 1725, when Swift returned to London after a long 
 absence, he lodged for a tune with Gay in Whitehall. 
 
 Swift, lodging most probably, as we know was his habit, in 
 later years in some of the suburban purlieus of St. James's, had 
 already become a notable figure in this company, which 
 met at Will's Coffee House, in Bow Street [see ADDI- cranJs Life 
 
 SON, p. 7], or at the St. James's Coffee House [see 
 ADDISON, p. 7], where the Whigs at that time most 
 resorted. . . . Those who frequented the place had been aston- 
 ished, day after day, by the entry of a clergyman, unknown to any 
 there, who laid his hat on the table, and strode up and down the 
 room with a rapid step, heeding no one and absorbed in his own 
 thoughts. His strange manner earned him, unknown as he was 
 to all, the name of the ' mad parson.' 
 
 He was equally familiar with the Smyrna at the West 
 End, and with Pantock's at the City end of the town ; and, 
 like so many of his contemporaries, is more easily traced to 
 his clubs and to his taverns than to his homes in London, if 
 his various abiding-places here can be termed homes. In 
 his ' Journal to Stella,' he writes : 
 
 Pantock told us that although his wine was not so good, he sold 
 it cheaper than others ; he took but seven shillings a flask. Are 
 not these pretty rates ?
 
 300 JONATHAN SWIFT. [1667-1745. 
 
 Pantock's was in Abchurch Lane, Lombard Street (see 
 EVELYN, p. 102). The street is now composed of compara- 
 tively modern business houses, and no sign of Pantock's 
 remains. The Smyrna was in Pall Mall, but its position is 
 unknown. 
 
 Another of Swift's city taverns was Garraway's, which has 
 long since disappeared. It stood in Change Alley, Cornhill ; 
 and its site is marked by a tablet recording this fact, on a 
 building facing Birchin Lane. He frequented also the Devil 
 Tavern, near Temple Bar (see JONSON, p. 1 75) ; the Foun- 
 taine, No. 103 Strand, which gave its name to Fountain 
 Court, called Savoy Buildings in 1885 (see JOHNSON, p. 170) ; 
 Button's, in Russell Street, Covent Garden (see ADDISON, 
 p. 6); Ozinda's, 'just by St. James's;' The Globe, No. 134 
 Fleet Street; and the George, in Pall Mall (see STEELE, 
 p. 290). 
 
 He was a member of the October Club, which met at the 
 Bell Tavern in King Street, Westminster ; the Scriblerus 
 Club, which met at different West End taverns ; and the 
 Brothers' Club, which gathered generally at the Star and 
 Garter in Pall Mall, opposite Schomberg House (see PRIOR, 
 p. 247). 
 
 March 20. I made our society change their house, and we 
 met together at the Star and Garter, in the Pall Mall ; Lord 
 Journal to Arran was President. The other dog was so extra va- 
 
 Stella, 1712. ^^ m j^ g ^ijjg ^^ Qr Qur (j^es, fi rs j; an( J secon( J 
 
 courses, without wine or dessert, he charged twenty-one pounds 
 six shillings and eight pence to the Duke of Ormond.
 
 1580-1654.] JOHN TAYLOR. 301 
 
 JOHN TAYLOR 
 
 1580-1654. 
 
 HpAYLOR was early apprenticed to a Thames waterman, 
 and for a number of years he was employed in some 
 capacity by the governors of the Tower of London. He 
 was called the Water Poet, and is said by tradition to have 
 ' chop'd verses ' with Shakspere, whose contemporary he 
 was. He relates, in his ' Pennyless Pilgrimage,' that he set 
 out from London, July 14, 1618, from 'the Bell Inn that's 
 Extra Aldersgate.' It was two doors from the Barbican, 
 but no sign of it now remains. In 1647 he left the Rose 
 Tavern on Holbom Hill, on a pilgrimage to the Isle of 
 Wight, where Charles II. was then staying. The Rose dis- 
 appeared some years ago. It was on the banks of the Fleet 
 River, and its site is at the steps leading to the Viaduct on 
 the southeast corner of Farringdon Street. 
 
 He died in Phoenix Alley, Long Acre, in 1654. 
 
 John Taylor, the Water Poet, kept a tavern in this alley. One 
 of his last works (his ' Journey into Wales,' 1652) he describes as 
 ' performed by John Taylor, dwelling at the sign of the Poet's 
 Head, in Phceiiix Alley, near the middle of Long Acre.' He 
 supplied his own portrait and inscription : 
 
 ' There 'a many a head stands for a sign ; 
 Then, gentle reader, why not mine?' 
 
 His first sign was a mourning crown ; but this was too marked 
 to be allowed. He came here in 1652, and, dying here 
 in 1654, was buried, December 5, in the churchyard of h^m""Hand- 
 St. Martin-in-the-Fields. His widow, it appears from Londcm 
 the rate-books of St. Martin's, continued in the house, Phoenix 
 
 Alley. 
 
 under the name of the Widow Taylor, five years after 
 
 his death. In 1658 ' Wid(ow) Taylor 'is scored out, and ' Mons. 
 
 Lero ' written at the side. The rate they paid was 2/2 a year.
 
 302 WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY. [1811-1863. 
 
 Phoenix Alley, since called Hanover Court, runs from 
 No. 55 Long Acre to Hart Street. Where his tavern stood 
 cannot exactly be determined; but the old house, numbered 
 6 Hanover Court in 1885, at the junction of the parishes 
 of St. Paul, Covent Garden, and St. Martin-in-the-Fields, 
 which undoubtedly dates back as far as the middle of the 
 seventeenth century, was probably familiar to Taylor and 
 his friends. 
 
 WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKEEAY. 
 
 1811-1863. 
 
 npHACKERAY'S earliest experiences in London, like 
 -* those of that kindest benefactor society ever had, 
 the Addison whose name he honored ; the kind, just, sin- 
 cere, impartial moralist and writer he so dearly loved, 
 were of the Charter House School (see ADDISON, p. 1). 
 He was brought from Calcutta when very young, and is 
 represented by one of his schoolmates (George Venables, in 
 Trollope's ' Thackeray ') as a pretty, gentle, rather timid 
 boy, with no skill in games, and not much taste for them, 
 popular among the boys he knew, but never very happy 
 in his school associations or daily life. He was ' on the 
 Foundation,' wore a gown, and lived in the school. In the 
 cloisters is a tablet to his memory, next to that of John 
 Leech. His last public appearance was at a Charter House 
 dinner, only a few days before he died. He gave the time- 
 honored Latin toast, asking the blessing of Providence upon 
 the Foundation, and passed forever from the old school with 
 a prayer upon his lips for its success and its perpetuity. 
 
 When Thackeray was called to the bar in 1834, and for 
 some years afterwards, he occupied, with Tom Taylor,
 
 1811-1863.] WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY. 3Q3 
 
 chambers at No. 10 Crown Office Row, in the Temple, 
 where many of his working hours were spent. This build- 
 ing is no longer standing. 
 
 He also frequently stopped at the Bedford, in Covent 
 Garden (see CHURCHILL, p. 51). In 1837 he took his 
 young wife to a house in Albion Street, Hyde Park, not 
 many yards from the grave of Sterne ; and he lived there 
 and in Great Coram Street, near the Foundling Hospital, 
 until the failing health of Mrs. Thackeray forced him to 
 give up housekeeping altogether. 
 
 For a time he lived at No. 88 St. James's Street, in the 
 building afterwards known as Palace Chambers ; but from 
 1847 to 1853 his home was at No. 13' (in 1885, No. 16) 
 Young Street, Kensington, where he wrote 'Vanity Fair,' 
 ' Pendennis,' ' Esmond,' and portions of ' The Newcomes.' 
 
 I once made a pilgrimage with Thackeray (at my request, of 
 course, the visit was planned) to the various houses where his 
 books had been written ; and I remember, when we pjg^g.g 
 came to Young Street. Kensington, he said, with Yesterdays 
 
 T-V With 
 
 mock gravity, ' Down on your knees, you rogue, for Authors : 
 here " Vanity Fair" was penned ; and I will go down* 
 with you, for I have a high opinion of that little production my- 
 self.' He was always perfectly honest in his expressions about 
 his own writings, and it was deb'ghtful to hear him praise them 
 when he could depend upon his listeners. A friend congratulated 
 him once on that touch in ' Vanity Fair ' in which Becky admires 
 her husband when he is giving Steyne the punishment which ruins 
 her for life. ' Well,' he said, ' when I wrote that sentence, I slapped 
 my fist on the table, and said, " That is a touch of genius." ' 
 
 In 1853 Thackeray took the house No. 36 Onslow Square, 
 South Kensington, where he wrote ' The Virginians,' etc., and 
 lived for eight or nine years. Onslow Square has been renum- 
 bered. Thackeray's was one of a row of uniform three-storied 
 brick houses on the south side of the Square near Sumner 
 Place. Mrs. Ritchie in a private note, dated 1884, says :
 
 304 WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY. [1811-1863. 
 
 Our old house was the fourth, counting the end house, from 
 the corner by the church in Onslow Square, the church being on 
 the left hand, and the avenue of old trees running in front of our 
 drawing-room windows. I used to look up from the avenue and 
 see my father's head bending over his work in the study window, 
 which was over the drawing-room. 
 
 The following description of his daily life here is worth 
 preserving : 
 
 To Onslow Square I accordingly went on the morning fixed, 
 and found Mr. Thackeray in his study to receive me ; but instead 
 
 of entering upon business in that part of the house, he 
 Memoirs 3 of ^ook me upstairs to his bedroom, where every arrange- 
 my Time, ment had been made for the convenience of writing. 
 
 I then learned that he was busily occupied in preparing 
 his lectures on ' The Four Georges,' and that he had need of an 
 amanuensis to fill the place of one who was now otherwise occu- 
 pied. . . . Often he would light a cigar, and after pacing the 
 room for a few moments would put the unsmoked remnant on 
 the mantelpiece, and resume his work with increased cheerfulness, 
 as if he had gathered fresh inspiration from the gentle odors of 
 the siiblime tobacco. It was not a little amusing to observe the 
 frequency jftdth which Mr. Thackeray would change his position, 
 and I could not but think that he seemed most at his ease when one 
 would suppose he was most uncomfortable. . . . Mr. Thackeray 
 was in his dressing-gown and slippers, and received us in his 
 bedroom, where, as I have already stated, he generally passed 
 his mornings and wrote his books. His study being a small 
 back-room behind the dining-room, on the ground floor, and 
 being exposed to the noises from the street, he had caused his 
 writing-table and appliances to be carried upstairs to the second 
 floor, where two rooms had been thrown into one, the back to be 
 used as a sleeping-chamber, and the front, which was considerably 
 larger than the other, as a sitting-room. 
 
 In 1862 Thackeray moved to a house he had built foi 
 himself at No. 2 Palace Green, Kensington, an imposing 
 double mansion of red brick, in bright gardens of its own.
 
 1811-1863.] WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY. 305 
 
 It is the second house on the left as one enters the gate of 
 Kensington Palace Gardens, from Kensington High Street, 
 but has been enlarged and changed since his day. Here he 
 died on Christmas eve, 1863. 
 
 The last words he corrected in print were : ' And my heart 
 throbbed with an exquisite bliss.' God grant that on that 
 Christmas eve when he laid his head back on his 
 pillow, and threw up his arms as he had been wont to Dickens in 
 
 do when very weary, some consciousness of duty done, e Comhill 
 
 ' Magazine, 
 
 and Christian hope throughout life humbly cherished, January, 
 
 may have caused his own heart so to throb when he 
 passed away to his Redeemer's rest. . . . He was found peace- 
 fully lying as above described, composed, undisturbed, and to all 
 appearance asleep on the 24th of December, 1863. He was only 
 in his fifty-third year ; so young a man that the mother who 
 blessed him in his first sleep blessed him in his last ! 
 
 Thackeray was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery on the 
 30th of December, 1863. Charles Dickens, Mark Lemon, Dr. 
 Russell of the ' Times,' John Everett Millais, John Leech (so 
 soon to follow him and to lie by his side), Anthony Trollope, 
 Robert Browning, George Cruikshank, Tom Taylor, Louis 
 Blanc, Charles Mathews, Theodore Martin, and Shirley Brooks 
 were among the old friends who carried him to his rest. 
 
 Thackeray's first lectures were prepared while he was 
 living in Young Street, and were delivered in the summer 
 of 1851 at Willis's Rooms (formerly Almack's), No. 26 King 
 Street, St. James's Street, to great crowds of the intellectual 
 and social lights of the kingdom. 
 
 Charlotte Bronte writes : 
 
 London, June 2 [1851]. I came here on Wednesday, being 
 summoned a day sooner than I expected, in order to 
 be in time for Thackeray's second lecture, which was keii's Life of 
 delivered on Thursday afternoon. This, as you may Bronte, voL 
 suppose, was a genuine treat to me, and I was glad not " chap- ix 
 to miss it. It was given in Willis's Rooms, where the Almack 
 
 20
 
 306 WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY. [1811-1863. 
 
 Balls are held ; a great painted and gilded saloon, with long 
 sofas for benches. I did not at all expect the great lecturer would 
 know me or notice me under these circumstances, with admiring 
 duchesses and countesses seated in rows before him ; but he met 
 me as I entered, shook hands, took me to his mother, whom I had 
 not seen before, and introduced me. 
 
 Thackeray's clubs were the Athenaeum, No. 107 Pall 
 Mall, the Garrick, and the Reform, No. 104 Pall Mall. 
 
 Thackeray was standing at the top of the steps leading into the 
 Reform Club, the thumb and forefinger of each hand in his waist- 
 
 coat pockets, as was constantly his wont, when Jerrold, 
 Hodder s 
 
 Memoirs, a fellow-member of the club, was about to enter the 
 building. ' Have you heard the news ? ' inquired 
 Thackeray, as Jerrold ascended the steps. ' No,' replied the 
 latter. ' The Prince is dead ; poor dear Gentlewoman ! ' A 
 delicate piece of patronage bestowed by literature upon majesty 
 itself. 
 
 On the Tuesday he came to his favorite club, the Garrick, and 
 asked for a seat at the table of two friends, who of course 
 
 welcomed him, as all welcomed Thackerav. It will 
 Shirley 
 
 Brooks, not be deemed too minute a record by any of the 
 London * hundreds who personally loved him, to note where he 
 
 News, 1864. ga j. f or ^ j^j. ^ me at ^at c i u |j There is in the 
 dining-room on the first floor a nook near the reading-room. The 
 principal picture hanging in that nook, and fronting you as you 
 approach it, is the celebrated one from the { Clandestine Marriage.' 
 Opposite to this Thackeray took his. seat and dined with his 
 friends. He was afterwards in the smoke-room, a place in which 
 he delighted. ... On Wednesday he was out several times, and 
 was seen in Palace Gardens reading a book. Before the dawn of 
 Thursday he was where there is no night. 
 
 Dickens came rarely to the club ; but Thackeray was dearly 
 fond of it, and was always there. I remember a speech 
 Yates : Fifty of his at an annual dinner, then always held on Shak- 
 LoBdon f Life, spere's birthday, in which he said, 'We, the happy 
 chap. ix. initiated, never speak of it as the Garrick ; to us it is 
 the G., the little G., the dearest place in the world.'
 
 1700-1748.] JAMES THOMSON. 307 
 
 The Garrick Club, founded in 1831, was situated until 
 1864 at No. 35 King Street, Covent Garden, on the north 
 side and near the present Garrick Street. This was the only 
 Garrick Club that Thackeray knew. The modern building 
 at No. 15 Garrick Street, Long Acre, was not occupied until 
 the year after Thackeray's death. 
 
 JAMES THOMSON. 
 
 1700-1748. 
 
 T ^ THEN Thomson first came to London in 1725, he lived 
 * * in humble lodgings in the house afterwards num- 
 bered 30 Charing Cross, between Cragg's Court and Great 
 Scotland Yard. Jesse and others believe it to have been 
 the identical old round front house still standing there as 
 late as 1885. Here on the first floor he spent some time 
 in comparative poverty, and here he is said to have written 
 part of his ' Summer.' 
 
 Other portions of ' Summer ' were written while he was 
 tutor in an academy in Little Tower Street, Eastcheap. 
 This house, afterwards No. 12, has been taken down; but 
 next to it, at No. 11 Little Tower Street, was, in 1885, 
 the Ship Tavern, as old as Thomson's day, and well known 
 to the poet. 
 
 Later in life, when his circumstances were better, Thomson 
 lived in the West End of London. 
 
 So charming Thomson wrote from his lodgings, a milliner's 
 in Bond Street, where he seldom rose early enough, to Mrs. Piozzi's 
 see the sun do more than glisten on the opposite win- tC^h 
 dows of the street. Ital y-
 
 308 JAMES THOMSON. [1700-1748. 
 
 Thomson lodged for some time at Eosedale House in Kew 
 Foot Lane, Richmond, not far from the Green. It has been 
 greatly altered, and was in 1885 a plain red brick mansion 
 near the street, with a little bit of lawn in front. ' Eosedale 
 House ' was painted upon its gateposts. The gardens and 
 relics of the poet, which were for many years carefully pre- 
 served here, have gradually disappeared. 
 
 He died in this house in 1 748 ; and a brass mural plate at 
 the west end of the north aisle of Richmond Church has 
 been placed above the spot where he lies. 
 
 Thomson received subscriptions for the ' Seasons ' at the 
 Smyrna Coffee House, Pall Mall (see SWIFT, p. 300), and was 
 a frequent guest of the Old Red Lion Tavern, in St. John's 
 Road, Islington (see GOLDSMITH, p. 126). 
 
 Another favorite suburban resort of his was ' The Doves,' 
 at Hammersmith, an old-fashioned river-side public house, 
 still in existence as late as 1885, at the lower end of the 
 Upper Mall, and a little to the west of the Suspension 
 Bridge. His name and memory are still held sacred here ; 
 and on the door of the adjoining cottage, which in his 
 day was part of the inn, is a well-worn, highly polished 
 brass plate, upon which is engraved ' The Seasons.' It 
 is believed that his 'Winter' was conceived and written in 
 a room in this house, overlooking the river, when the 
 Thames was covered with ice and the neighboring country 
 with snow, an assertion which Faulkner, in his ' Fulham,' 
 says is well authenticated.
 
 1736-1812.] JOHN HORNE TOOKE. 309 
 
 JOHN HORNE TOOKE. 
 
 1736-1812. 
 
 TJ OKNE TOOKE was born in the house of his father, 
 John Home, a poulterer, and the ' Turkey Merchant ' 
 from whom the son once claimed descent. His shop was in 
 Newport Market, which stood between Great Newport, Graf- 
 ton, and Litchfield Streets, Soho, but has now disappeared. 
 
 Tooke spent two years at Westminster School (see 
 CHURCHILL, p. 51) before he went to Eton. In 1756 he 
 entered the Inner Temple, and from 1760 to 1773 he was 
 curate of St. Lawrence's, Brentford, six miles from Hyde 
 Park Corner. 
 
 In 1777 he was imprisoned in the Tower for his violent 
 and outspoken sympathy with the American colonists in 
 their rebellion against the mother-country. 
 
 In 1802 Tooke retired to Wimbledon, where ten years 
 later he died. His house was on the southwest corner of 
 Wimbledon Common, a two-storied brick cottage, still 
 standing in 1885, facing the Green and backing on the 
 Crooked Billet and Hand in Hand, two old inns. 
 
 I often dined with Tooke at Wimbledon, and always found him 
 most pleasant and most witty. There his friends would drop in 
 upon him without any invitation. . . . Tooke latterly Rogers's 
 used to expect two or three of his most intimate friends Table Talk - 
 to dine with him every Sunday ; and I once offended him a good 
 deal by not joining his Sunday dinner-parties for several weeks. 
 
 Tooke was buried in the yard of Baling Old Church (St. 
 Mary's) under an altar tomb. 
 
 A tomb had long been prepared for Mr. Tooke in his garden 
 at Wimbledon, in which it was his firm purpose to have been
 
 310 EDMUND WALLER. [1605-1687. 
 
 buried ; but after his decease, being opposed by his daughters 
 and an aunt of theirs, his remains were transferred to this 
 
 churchyard, where they were interred according to 
 Faulkner's . , . _.. . .. , , 
 
 Brentford, the rites and ceremonies or the Church ot JSnglano, 
 Chiswick nd otherwise it was his desire that no funeral ceremonies 
 chap. ii. should be read over his body, but six poor men should 
 have a guinea each to bear him to the vault in his garden. 
 
 EDMUND WALLER. 
 
 1605-1687. 
 
 T X TALLER is said to have been a member of the House 
 * * of Commons when he was sixteen or seventeen years 
 of age, and to have been a resident of London for some time ; 
 but nothing is known of his personal career here except that 
 he was married ' to his rich city heiress ' in the Church of 
 St. Margaret, Westminster, that he lived at one time in 
 Bow Street, Covent Garden, on the site of the Police Station 
 (see FIELDING, p. 105), and that between the years 1660 
 and 1687 he lived on the west side of St. James's Street, 
 Piccadilly. In the latter year he went to Beaconsfield to 
 die. 
 
 He was a frequent visitor at Berkeley House, on the site 
 of which Devonshire House, Piccadilly, between Berkeley 
 and Stratton Streets, was built ; and Aubrey preserves the 
 story of a catastrophe that befell him at the Water Gate of 
 Somerset House, Strand : 
 
 Waller had but a tender, weak bodie, but was always very 
 temperate. Made him damnable drunk at Somerset House, 
 where at the water stayres he fell down and had a cruel fall. 
 'T was a pity to use such a sweet a wan so inhumanly
 
 1717-1797.] HOEACE WALPOLE. 311 
 
 The Somerset House of Waller's day, built by the Pro- 
 tector, whose name it bore, was taken down in 1775 to 
 make way for the present buildings, which were completed 
 in 1786. 
 
 HOEACE WALPOLE. 
 
 1717-1797. 
 
 T_J GRACE WALPOLE was born on the west side of 
 *- * Arlington Street, Piccadilly ; but he afterwards occu- 
 pied the opposite house, No. 5 Arlington Street, which is 
 marked by the tablet of the Society of Arts as having been 
 the residence of his father. While in town from 1745 to 
 1779 he lived here, and also in his father's house in Down- 
 ing Street, the official residence of the first Lord of the 
 Treasury ever since Sir Robert Walpole's occupancy of it 
 in 1735. 
 
 The greater part of Horace Walpole's youth, however, 
 was spent in his father's house at Chelsea, afterwards the 
 Infirmary of Chelsea Hospital, which was but little changed 
 in 1885, except that one story had been added. The 
 drawing-room was Ward No. 7. 
 
 Walpole is now particularly associated with Strawberry 
 Hill, the house where so many of his days were passed, 
 and upon which so much of his thought was spent. It still 
 stood in 1885, on the banks of the Thames, at Twicken- 
 ham, ten miles from Arlington Street and Berkeley Square. 
 
 Strawberry Hill . . . stands on a gentle elevation about three 
 hundred yards from, and overlooking, the Thames immediately 
 above Twickenham. . . . When Walpole rented the house it was 
 little more than a cottage, and the grounds were of narrow com- 
 pass. As soon as he became its owner, he began to enlarge the
 
 312 HORACE WALPOLE. [1717-1797. 
 
 house and extend the grounds. The cottage grew into a villa, the 
 villa into a mansion. . . . Strawberry Hill, when completed, was 
 
 a Gothic building, but Gothic of no particular period, 
 Thome's class, or style. Windows, doorways, and mould- 
 of the ings of the thirteenth century stood side by side with 
 
 London : others of the fifteenth and sixteenth. Ecclesiastical 
 strawberry were co-mingled with secular features, collegiate with 
 
 baronial or military. Next to an Abbey Entrance 
 was the oriel of an Elizabethan Manor-house, or the keep of a 
 Norman Castle, while battlements and machicolation frowned over 
 the wide bay windows that opened on to the lawn. . . . Walpole 
 was in his thirtieth year when he took Strawberry Hill ; and he 
 spent fifty summers in it, improving the house, adding to his 
 collections, and enjoying the lilacs and nightingales in his grounds. 
 ... As it now stands [1876J, Strawberry Hill is a renewal of 
 Walpole's house, with modern sumptuousness superadded. All 
 the old rooms are there, though the uses of many have been 
 changed. . . . The grounds and gardens are as beautiful and 
 attractive as of old, the trees as verdant, the rosary as bright, the 
 lawn as green, and in their season Walpole's ' two passions, lilacs 
 and nightingales,' in as full bloom and abundance as ever. 
 
 From 1779, for eighteen years, Walpole's town house was 
 No. 11 Berkeley Square; and here, in 1797, he died. 
 
 I came to town this morning [October, 1779] to take possession 
 Walpole's of Berkeley Square, and was as well pleased with my 
 i779. erS ' new habitation as I can be with anything at present. 
 
 This mansion was on the southwest corner of Hill Street, 
 and was numbered 42 Berkeley Square in 1885. 
 
 Walpole was a member of Brook's Club, No. 60 St. 
 James's Street, among others, and of the Blue Stocking 
 Club, which met ' at Mrs. Montague's, on the northwest 
 corner of Portman Square.' 
 
 He frequented Dodsley's shop, at the sign of the Tully's 
 Head, Xo. 51 Pall Mall (see AKENSIDE, p. 11); and the 
 Bedford Coffee House, ' under the Piazza, in Covent Garden ' 
 (see CHURCHILL, p. 51).
 
 1593-1683.] IZAAK WALTON. 313 
 
 IZAAK WALTON. 
 
 1593-1683. 
 
 /^\F Walton's youth and education nothing is known. 
 ^-^ Anthony Wood found him engaged as a 'sempster,' or 
 linen-draper, in the Eoyal Burse, Cornhill (on the site of 
 the Royal Exchange), where his shop was seven feet and a 
 half long, and five feet wide. Later, he occupied half a shop 
 in Fleet Street, between Chancery Lane and Temple Bar. 
 
 Walton dwelt on the north side of Fleet Street, in a house two 
 doors west of the end of Chancery Lane, and abutting on a mes- 
 suage known by the sign of The Harrow. . . . Now the 
 old timber house at the Southwest corner of Chancery Hawkins's 
 Lane, till within these few years [1760] was known by ^iton 
 that sign ; it is therefore beyond doubt that Walton 
 lived at the very next door, and in this House he is, in the deed 
 above referred to, which bears date 1624, said to have followed the 
 trade of a Linen Draper. It further appears by that deed, that 
 the house was in the joint occupation of Isaac Walton and John 
 Mason, hosier, from whence we may conclude that half a shop 
 was sufficient for the business of Walton. 
 
 He subsequently removed into Chancery Lane. 
 
 Isaac Walton lived in what was then the seventh cunning- 
 house on the left hand as you walk [in Chancery Lane] Bo?k S ?f and " 
 
 from Fleet Street to Holborn. Sir Harris Nicolas de- London : 
 
 Chancery 
 rived this information from the Parish Books. Lane. 
 
 This house is believed to have stood next to Crown Court, 
 on the site of the house numbered 120 Chancery Lane in 
 1885. 
 
 Walton quitted London in 1643.
 
 314 IZAAK WALTON. [1593-1683. 
 
 Finding it dangerous for honest men to be there, he left the 
 city, and lived some time at Stafford and elsewhere, 
 Athena; but mostly in the families of eminent clergymen of 
 Oxoniensea. England, by whom he was much beloved. 
 
 Walton lived in the parish of Clerkenwell after his re- 
 tirement from business ; and here, according to the parish 
 registers, were baptized, in St. James's Church, February 
 10, 1650, his son Izaak Walton, and again, on September 7, 
 1651, another son Izaak Walton. Both of these children 
 died in early infancy. In 1653, while still living in Clerk- 
 enwell, ' There is published a book of eighteen pence price 
 called the Compleat Angler ; or contemplative man's recrea- 
 tions, being a discourse of Fish and Fishing, not unworthy of 
 perusal. Sold by Kichard Marriot in St. Dunstan's Church 
 Yard, Fleet Street.' 
 
 The antiquarians of Clerkenwell, unfortunately, have been 
 able to find no trace of the site of Walton's house, either 
 from tradition or the rate-books. 
 
 Walton bought his fish-hooks at the shop of one Charles 
 Kerbye, in Harp Alley, Shoe Lane, a street entirely changed 
 since Walton's day ; and he was fond of fishing the Lea from 
 Ware to Tottenham. 
 
 The Swan Inn at Tottenham High Cross was the place of 
 William resort of Izaak Walton, the angler ; he used to tarry 
 
 Robinson's here awhile before he went to the river Lea to fish, 
 
 History of ..... 
 
 Tottenham, and again on his return. In the front of this house in 
 the year 1643, there was an harbour, the favorite rest- 
 ing place of Walton, of which mention is made in the ' Complete 
 Angler.' 
 
 The White Swan Inn was left intact in 1885, on the north- 
 west corner of Tottenham High Cross, between the Cross 
 itself, on the opposite side of the High Road, and the old 
 well. It stood a little back from the street, a white 
 stuccoed house of "one story and an attic, with a quaint old
 
 1667-1731.] EDWAKD WARD. 315 
 
 gable. There was a skittle alley in its rear, and a little bit 
 of bright garden at its side, all that was left of the gentle 
 angler's sweet shady arbor, woven by Nature herself, with 
 her own fine fingers, of woodbine, sweet-brier, jessamine, 
 and myrtle. While a drink like nectar was still brewed in 
 the interesting old inn, no fishermen went there to sup it 
 in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, and Izaak 
 Walton was absolutely unknown to those who served or 
 quaffed it. The river Lea is about five minutes' walk from 
 the doors of the Swan. 
 
 One of the most interesting memorials of Walton left us 
 is the monogram 'I. W.' and the date ' 1658 ' scratched by 
 Walton himself on the mural tablet to Isaac Casaubon in the 
 south transept of Westminster Abbey. Dean Stanley was 
 very fond of pointing this out to his personal friends as he 
 escorted them to the Poets' Corner ; and it is the only 
 desecration ever committed in the Abbey that he heartily 
 forgave. 
 
 EDWAKD WAED. 
 
 1667-1731. 
 
 TVTED WARD, the droll author of the 'London Spy,' is 
 ^ said by William Oldys to have lived for a while in 
 Gray's Inn, and later to have kept a public house in Moor- 
 fields, afterwards in Clerkenwell, and lastly a punch-house in 
 Fulwood's Rents. His Clerkenwell establishment he de- 
 scribed ' as at the Great Gates in Red Bull Yard, between St. 
 John Street and Clerkenwell Green ; ' and he claimed that on 
 
 ' That ancient venerable ground, 
 
 Where Shakspere in heroic buskin trod, 
 A good old fabric may be found, 
 Celestial liquors fit to charm a god. '
 
 316 ISAAC WATTS. [1674-1748. 
 
 This alludes to the unfounded tradition that Shakspere 
 was a player in the Red Bull Theatre, in Red Bull Yard, 
 which has since been called Woodbridge Street (see DAVE- 
 NANT, p. 75, and SHAKSPERE, p. 264). 
 
 Fulwood's Rents, at No. 34 High Holborn, nearly opposite 
 Chancery Lane, contained in 1885 a number of very old and 
 dilapidated buildings, doubtless standing there in Ward's 
 time. His house, according to Oldys, was ' within one door 
 of Gray's Inn,' and here ' he would entertain any company 
 that invited him, with many stories and adventures of the 
 poets and authors he had acquaintance with.' 
 
 He died at this house, and was buried in Old St. Pancras 
 Churchyard (see GODWIN, p. 118) in the most quiet manner, 
 and in accordance with the directions of his poetic will : 
 
 ' No costly funeral prepare ; 
 
 'Twixt Sun and Sun I only crave 
 A hearse and one black coach to bear 
 My wife and children to my grave.' 
 
 ISAAC WATTS. 
 
 1674-1748. 
 
 TSAAC WATTS came to London in 1690 to enter the 
 * College for Dissenters in Newington Green (see DE FOE, 
 p. 76). In 1693 he 'was admitted to Mr. Rowe's Church,' 
 which then worshipped at Girdlers' Hall, still standing in 
 1885, at Nos. 38 to 40 Basinghall Street. In 1698-99 'he 
 preached as Dr. Chauncey's assistant, in Ye Church in Mark 
 Lane' (City). His connection with this congregation lasted 
 until his death, fifty years later. In June, 1704, as is
 
 1674-1748.] ISAAC WATTS. 317 
 
 recorded in his Diary, ' we removed our meeting place to 
 Pinner's Hall [Old Broad Street, see BAXTER, p. 18], and 
 began exposition of Scripture.' In 1708 the congregation 
 removed again to Duke's Place, Bury Street, St. Mary Axe ; 
 but there is now no trace left of either of these chapels. 
 
 Watts lived with ' Mr. Thomas Hollis in the Minories ' in 
 1702, and here probably wrote the poems which, in his 
 Diary, he says were published in 1705. In 1710 he ' re- 
 moved from Mr. Hollis's and went to live with Mr. Bowes, 
 December 30.' With this year his brief and unsatisfactory 
 Diary ends ; and his biographers have not cared to say more 
 definitely where his homes in London were situated. 
 
 In the year 1713 or 1714 he became a guest in the house 
 of Sir Thomas Abney, at Theobalds, Cheshunt, Herts, about 
 fifteen miles from London. Subsequently he went with the 
 Abneys to Stoke Newington; and in 1748 died in their 
 house at the end of a somewhat protracted visit of thirty-five 
 years. 
 
 Sir Thomas Abney's house at Stoke Newington was taken 
 down in 1844, and its site is now occupied by Abney Park 
 Cemetery, in which stands a statue of Watts. 
 
 Dr. Watts was buried in Bunhill Fields 
 
 deep in the earth, among the relics of many of his pious fathers 
 
 and brethren whom he had known in the flesh, and with whom 
 
 he wished to be found in the resurrection. ... In 
 
 order that his grave might read a lecture of that Milner's Life 
 
 moderation which his life had exemplified and his kap at xv'iii 
 
 pen advocated, he desired that his funeral should be 
 
 attended by two Independent ministers, two Presbyterian and two 
 
 Baptist. 
 
 An altar tomb covers his grave, in the northeastern corner 
 of the ground, not far from the City Road entrance.
 
 318 JOHN WESLEY. [1703-1791, 
 
 JOHN WESLEY. 
 
 1703-1791. 
 
 T T 7ESLEY was sent at an early age to the Charter House 
 * * School (see ADDISON, p. 1), from which he went 
 to Oxford in 1720. In after life he frequently asserted 
 that much of his good health was due to the command of 
 his father that he should run around the Charter House 
 playground three times every morning, a task which he 
 conscientiously performed. 
 
 For some years Wesley was pastor of the congregation 
 which worshipped in Pinner's Hall, Old Broad Street (see 
 BAXTER, p. 18); and he preached at Bromley, and at the 
 Foundry at Moorfields, which stood on the site of the 
 Chapel subsequently erected in Tabernacle Row, Finsbury, 
 near City Road. 
 
 In 1752 Wesley took possession of the New Wells, a 
 place of popular amusement in Clerkenwell, which he opened 
 as a tabernacle, and in which he preached. It stood on 
 Lower Rosoman Street, on the site of the houses afterwards 
 numbered 5, 6, 7, and 8, according to Pink in his ' History 
 of Clerkenwell ; ' and it was taken down shortly after the 
 expiration of Wesley's lease. Wesley preached Whitefield's 
 funeral sermon (1770) in the Tottenham Court Road Chapel, 
 in 1885 numbered 79 Tottenham Court Road ; and in 
 1777 he laid the foundation stone of the Chapel, No. 48 
 City Road, opposite the Cemetery of Bunhill Fields, where, 
 as Southey shows, great multitudes assembled to hear and 
 see him, and assist at the ceremony. 
 
 Opposite the Eastern Gate of the Artillery Ground in the City 
 Road is a handsome Chapel, built by the late Rev. John Wesley,
 
 1703-1791.] JOHN WESLEY. 319 
 
 for the Methodists of the Arminian persuasion. It is a plain 
 
 structure of brick, the interior very neat ; there is also a spacious 
 
 Court behind the building, planted with some trees, 
 
 and uniform houses on each side, the first of which on London and 
 
 the right hand, entering from the City Road, was ^jj^ 6 *' 
 
 occupied by Mr. John Wesley when in town, and 
 
 that also in which he died. 
 
 'Wesley's House/ so marked, is in front of this chapel, 
 and in 1885 was numbered 47 City Road. 
 
 During his last illness Wesley said : ' Let me be buried in 
 nothing but what is woollen ; and let my corpse be carried in my 
 coffin into the chapel.' This was done according to gouthe , a 
 the will, by six poor men, each of whom had 20/ ; LtfeofWes- 
 ' for I particularly desire,' said he, ' that there may be 
 no hearse, no coach, no escutcheon, no pomp, except the tears of 
 them that love me, and are following me to Abraham's bosom.' 
 On the day preceding the interment, Wesley's body lay in the 
 chapel in a kind of state becoming the person, dressed in his 
 clerical habit, with gown, cassock, and band, the old clerical cap 
 on his head, a Bible in one hand, and a white handkerchief in the 
 other. . . . The crowds who flocked to see him were so great that 
 it was thought prudent, for fear of accident, to accelerate the 
 funeral, and perform it between five and six in the morning. 
 The intelligence, however, could not be kept entirely secret, and 
 several hundred persons attended at that unusual hour. 
 
 As I was walking home one day from my father's bank, I 
 observed a great crowd of people streaming into a chapel in the 
 City Road. I followed them, and saw laid out upon R gers's 
 a table the dead body of a clergyman in full canoni- Table Talk - 
 cals. It was the corpse of John Wesley ; and the crowd moved 
 slowly and silently round the table to take a last look at that 
 most venerable man. 
 
 Wesley lies in the little burial-ground behind the City 
 Road Chapel, under a monument erected to his memory 
 by the members of the society to which he gave his name.
 
 320 JOHN WOLCOT. [1738-1819. 
 
 GEORGE WITHER. 
 
 1588-1667. 
 
 T T 7ITHER, whose famous shepherd refused to waste in 
 * * despair and die because a certain fair woman was 
 not fair to him, was a student of Lincoln's Inn, and wrote 
 his best-known poem in the Marshalsea Prison. Later he 
 was confined always for political reasons in Newgate 
 and in the Tower. This was not the Marshalsea Prison 
 of Dickens's youth. It stood on the east side of the Borough 
 High Street, opposite Union Street and next to the Nag's 
 Head, the modern Newcomen Street passing over its site. 
 The Marshalsea Debtors' Prison was nearer St. George's 
 Church (see DICKENS, p. 80). 
 
 Wither died, it was said, in the Savoy, and, according to 
 Wood's ' Athense Oxonienses,' was buried ' between the east 
 door and south end ' of the Church of St. Mary -le- Savoy, 
 known now as the Savoy Chapel, Savoy Street, Strand 
 (see CHAUCER, p. 46). This church dates back to the very 
 beginning of the sixteenth century, but has no memorial of 
 Wither. 
 
 JOHN WOLCOT. 
 
 1738-1819. 
 
 * DETER PINDAR'S ' first permanent home in London 
 
 * was at No. 1 Chapel Street, next to the corner of 
 
 Great Portland Street, Portland Place, where he lodged 
 
 about the year 1782. The Portland Hotel has since been
 
 1770-1850.] WILLIAM WORDSWOETH. 321 
 
 erected on the site of this house. Later he occupied a 
 garret room in No. 13 Tavistock Row, overlooking Covent 
 Garden and near Southampton Street ; and in 1807 he was 
 lodging in Camden Town, then a suburban village, while 
 he figured, not very creditably, in the law courts. He died 
 twelve years later, near the nursery gardens which have 
 since become Euston Square. 
 
 He always sat in a room facing the south. Behind the door 
 stood a square piano-forte, on which there generally lay his 
 favorite Cremona violin ; on the left, a mahogany table 
 with writing materials. Everything was in perfect 
 order. . . . Facing him, over the mantelpiece, hung a 
 fine landscape by Richard Wilson. ... In writing, 
 except a few lines hap-hazard, the Doctor was obliged to employ an 
 amanuensis [he lost his eyesight a few years before his death]. 
 Of all his acquisitions, music to him remained alone unaltered. 
 . . . He even composed light airs for amusement. 
 
 Wolcot was buried in the Church of St. Paul, Covent 
 Garden, at his own request that he might ' lie as near as 
 possible to the bones of old Hudibras Butler.' His grave is 
 believed to be under the floor of the vestry-room ; but there 
 is no tablet to his memory (see BUTLER, p. 29). 
 
 WILLIAM WOEDSWOETH. 
 
 1770-1850. 
 
 0RDSWORTH made frequent visits to London, and 
 * we read of him here as the guest of Rogers, Lamb, 
 Coleridge, Crabb Robinson, and others ; but nowhere in his 
 Diary, his Memoirs, his published letters, or in the works of 
 his friends and contemporaries, is any hint given as to his 
 
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 322. WILLIAM WYCHERLEY. [1640-1715. 
 
 abiding-places in town. While he was more closely identi- 
 iied with Yarrow or the Lake District than with the stream 
 that flows through the vale of Cheapside, still he has left a 
 thrush in the branches of the old tree on the corner of Wood 
 Street, that will sing there as long as yellow primroses grow 
 by rivers' brims. 
 
 WILLIAM WYCHERLEY. 
 Circa 1640-1715. 
 
 T X 7YCHERLEY was entered as a student in the Middle 
 * * Temple, but soon turned from the dry study of the 
 law to lighter, looser, and more beloved pursuits. His only 
 known residence in London was in Bow Street, Covent 
 Garden, ' over against the Cock.' According to Peter Cun- 
 ningham, it was on the west side of Bow Street, and ' three 
 doors beyond Radcliffe,' whose house is known to have been 
 on the site of Covent Garden Theatre. This Cock Tavern 
 long since disappeared. 
 
 It was here that Charles II. called upon Wycherley while 
 he was lying ill, a very unusual compliment of royalty to 
 a commoner ; and the result of the visit was a gift of 500, 
 out of the public purse, to enable the dramatist to seek rest 
 and strength in France. Wycherley, however, soon in- 
 curred the displeasure of Charles by his marriage to a Court 
 lady, the Countess of Drogheda, whom he visited in Hatton 
 Garden, and carried, as his wife, to Bow Street. This 
 unequal match brought as little happiness to either party 
 as did that of Addison and his Countess ; and Wycherley's 
 contemporaries have put on record many entertaining stories 
 of his married life, his wife being so jealous of him that he
 
 1640-1715.] WILLIAM WYCHEKLEY. 323 
 
 was rarely permitted to quit her side. It is said that when 
 he visited the Cock he was ordered to leave open the win- 
 dows of the room in which he sat, and to show himself from 
 time to time, that the exacting lady over the way might be 
 assured that all his companions were of his own sex. 
 
 Another and more serious result of this union was his 
 confinement for several years in the Fleet Prison ; his dis- 
 putes concerning his marriage settlements with the Countess 
 resulting in his financial ruin and in his committal to a 
 debtors' gaol. 
 
 The Fleet Prison, destroyed in the Gordon Riots in 1780, 
 but immediately rebuilt, stood on the east side of the present 
 Farringdon Street until 1846. Its exact site may be de- 
 scribed as upon the block of ground bounded on the west by 
 Farringdon Street, on the east by Fleet Lane, on the north 
 by Fleet Lane, and on the south by Fleet Lane. It was 
 approached from the Old Bailey by Fleet Lane, an irregiilar 
 street shaped like the letter Y. 
 
 Wycherley was married a second time in 1715, but died 
 eleven days after the ceremony. He was buried in the 
 vaults of the Church of St. Paul, Covent Garden. All 
 traces of his grave were lost in the burning of the church 
 in 1795 (see BUTLER, p. 29). 
 
 Favorite taverns of Wycherley, besides the Cock, were the 
 Half Moon in Aldersgate Street, marked by Half Moon Pas- 
 sage, No. 158 Aldersgate Street (see CONGREVE, p. 64), and 
 the Bear at the Bridge Foot (see PEPYS. p. 238).
 
 324 EDWARD YOUNG. [1681-1765. 
 
 EDWAED YOUNG. 
 
 1681-1765. 
 
 T~\E. YOUNG had almost no association with London 
 *- except in his marriage at the Church of St. Mary-at- 
 Hill, in Love Lane, Eastcheap, May 27, 1731. This church, 
 one of Wren's, was still standing in 1885. The death of his 
 wife in 1740 led to the writing of the famous 'Night 
 Thoughts,' which established his reputation and is so 
 rarely read. He lived and died in his country parish in 
 Hertfordshire.
 
 NOTES. 
 
 1 Colonel F. Grant, in a letter to the London ' Athenaeum, ' 
 Aug. 1, 1885, writes that a directory of London printed for Sam. Lee, 
 1677, is in the Bodleian, and that two other copies of the same work 
 are known to exist. 
 
 2 The 'Builder' (London), Sept. 19, 1885, says: 'The Royal 
 Comedy Theatre in Panton Street should, we believe, be instanced as 
 marking the situation of Addison's Haymarket lodging, which Pope 
 showed to Harte as being the garret where Addison wrote " The 
 Campaign." ' 
 
 3 The Chapter Coffee House, Paternoster Row, was torn down in 
 1887, but rebuilt upon the same site. 
 
 4 The Rev. Robert Gwynne, in a private note dated Sept. 1, 1885, 
 writes : 'In revising Baedeker's "London " I had a great deal of trouble 
 in finding out that 24, not 16, Holies Street was the birthplace of 
 Byron. I consulted Mr. Cordy Jeaffreson, author of "The Real Lord 
 Byron ; " Mr. Grace, the decorator in Wigmore Street, whose father col- 
 lected the views, maps, etc., of London, now in the British Museum ; 
 Mr. Fry, the present owner of Xo. 24 Holies Street, and Mr. John 
 Murray, Jr. ... Mr. Fry informed me that 24 Holies Street is the 
 only house in the street that has been rebuilt. The tablet in accord- 
 ance with tradition is in front of this house. Peter Cunningham, in 
 his " London," gives as his authority for naming No. 16 as the birthplace 
 a paper in Mr. Murray's possession. Mr. John Murray, Jr., and I 
 examined the paper, which is a tradesman's bill, and we were both 
 convinced that the document does not bear out Mr. Cunningham's 
 statement.' 
 
 5 Long's Hotel, Xo. 16 New Bond Street, was taken down in 1887. 
 
 6 The ' Baptist,' London, June 19, 1885, says that Cowper spent 
 one morning in town when he 'breakfasted with his friend Rose in 
 Chancery Lane in 1792, when returning from Eartham, the residence 
 of Hayley, a brother poet.'
 
 326 NOTES. 
 
 7 The extreme rear of the Marshalsea Prison which Dickens de- 
 scribes in the Preface to ' Little Dorrit ' was transformed into a ware- 
 house in 1887. 
 
 8 The old house No. 16 Fetter Lane was demolished in 1887. 
 
 9 A writer in the ' British Quarterly Review,' October, 1885, says 
 that in the company of the late Mr. W. Smith "Williams, he frequently 
 saw Leigh Hunt in his house at Hammersmith, and ' admired the 
 taste which he managed to communicate to his small rooms, and also 
 the graceful garrulousness and suavity of the old man in his long black 
 robe, and his long white hair.' 
 
 10 The British Hotel, Cockspur Street, was torn down in 1887; 
 Stanford, the publisher of maps, building upon its site. 
 
 u The Cock Tavern, Fleet Street, was taken down in 1887, and 
 a branch of the Bank of England was built upon its site. 
 
 12 Subsequent research shows that the Margaret Jon son who was 
 married in 1575, according to the register of St. Martins-in-the- 
 Fields, died in 1590; while the mother of Ben Jonson is known to have 
 been alive as late as 1604. 
 
 13 Mr. Sidney Colvin, in his 'Life of Keats' (English Men of 
 Letters Series), says that Keats lived over the Queen's Head in the 
 Poultry in 1816, and moved to No. 76 Cheapside during the next 
 year. No. 76 Cheapside was rebuilt in 1868. It was in this house, 
 according to Peter Cunningham, that Keats wrote his Sonnet on Chap- 
 man's ' Homer. ' 
 
 14 Holly Lodge, named Airlie Lodge, when it was occupied by an 
 Earl of Airlie, has since been given its old name, and was called Holly 
 Lodge in 1887. 
 
 16 Edward Walford, in his 'Greater London,' vol. ii. p. Ill, writes: 
 'Suffice it to say that, beyond his tomb at Twickenham, the only 
 memorials of the poet [Pope] now visible are the gardens and the fa- 
 mous grove in which he took such great delight, and also the grotto, or 
 rather the tunnel, for it has been despoiled of many of its rare marbles, 
 spars, and ores, and is now a mere damp subway.' 
 
 16 The old house at No. 96 Piccadilly was torn down in 1887, 
 and the Junior Travellers' Club was built upon its site. 
 
 17 Mr. Jeaffreson believes that this hotel in Dover Street was only 
 an occasional resort of Shelley's, and that the fact of his writing there 
 a letter announcing his child's birth is not sufficient evidence that the 
 event occurred on the premises
 
 INDEX OF PERSONS. 
 
 Abney, Sir Thomas, 317. 
 
 ADDISON, JOSEPH, 1-9; mentioned, 
 v, ix, x, 175, 202, 204, 243, 
 287, 288, 302, 322; quoted, 96, 97. 
 
 Agnew, Thomas, 293. 
 
 Aikin, Lucy, quoted, 2, 288. 
 
 AKENSIDE, MARK, 10-11. 
 
 Albert, Prince Consort, 306. 
 
 Alcinoiis, 190. 
 
 Andersen, Hans Christian, quoted, 
 84. 
 
 Anne, Queen, 55, 155, 156, 243, 244. 
 
 Arbuthnot, Dr. John, 243. 
 
 Archer, Francis, 204. 
 
 Argyll, Duke of, 203. 
 
 Atterbury, Bishop Francis, 6. 
 
 Aubrey, John, mentioned, 171; quo- 
 ted, 11, 13, 19, 29, 74, 91, 107, 172, 
 173, 199, 211, 212, 215, 216, 223. 
 225, 249, 295, 310. 
 
 BACON, FRANCIS, 11-14; mentioned, 
 202. 
 
 Baillie, Agnes, 15. 
 
 Baillie, Dr. Matthew, 14. 
 
 BAILLIE, JOANNA, 14-15. 
 
 Baker, David Erskine, 196. 
 
 Ballantyne, James, 261. 
 
 BARBAULD, ANNA LETITIA, 16 ; quo- 
 ted, 253, 254. 
 
 Barbauld, Rev. Rochemont, 16, 256. 
 
 Barber, Francis, 90, 163. 
 
 Barclay and Perkins, 17, 18, 19, 70, 
 163, 174, 266, 268. 
 
 Barham, H. R., quoted, 142 
 
 Barrett, Elizabeth (Mrs. Browning), 
 151, 217. 
 
 Barton, Bernard, 185, 190. 
 
 Batten, Sir W., 236. 
 
 BAXTER, RICHARD, 16-19. 
 
 Baxter, Mrs. Richard, 16, 17, 18. 
 
 Beaconsfield, Countess of, 89. 
 
 BEACONSFIELD, EARL OF (see Dis- 
 raeli). 
 
 Beattie, Dr. W., quoted, 37. 
 
 Baauclerc, Topham, 121, 150. 
 
 BEAUMONT, FRANCIS, 19-20; men- 
 tioned, 103, 107, 286. 
 
 Bentham, Jeremy, 213, 214. 
 
 Bentley, Dr. Richard, 71. 
 
 Berthelette, Thomas, quoted, 127. 
 
 Bevry, Adam de, 46. 
 
 Bickerstaff, Isaac, 121. 
 ; Birch, Thomas, quoted, 251. 
 : Blackstone, Sir William, 121. 
 ' Blake, William, x. 
 j Blanchard, Laman, 85. 
 
 Blanc, Louis, 305. 
 
 Blessiugton, Lady, 88, 90, 195, 278. 
 
 Blinde, Mathilde, quoted, 98. 
 
 BLOOMFIELD, ROBERT, 20-21. 
 
 Boccaccio, 257. 
 
 Bolm, Henry G., 79. 
 
 Bolingbroke, Viscount, 242, 247. 
 
 Boswell, Dr., 164. 
 
 Bos WELL, JAMES, 21-22; mentioned, 
 x, 105, 122, 167; quoted, 120, 
 123, 156, 158, 159, 161, 162, 163, 
 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170. 
 
 Boufners, Madame de, 159-160. 
 
 Boyer, Jeremy, 56. 
 
 Bracegirdle, Mrs., 63. 
 
 Brawne, Fanny, 179, 181, 182. 
 
 Bray, Dr. Nicholas, 264.
 
 328 
 
 INDEX OF PERSONS. 
 
 Braybrooke, Lord, 234. 
 
 Brayley, Edward Wedlake, quoted, 
 
 13, 250, 319. 
 Brewster, Sir David, quoted, 227, 
 
 228. 
 
 Brigham, Nicholas, 48. 
 Brighaui, Kachel, 48. 
 Bronte, Anne, 22. 
 
 BRONTE, CHARLOTTE, 22-23; quo- 
 ted, 305-306. 
 
 Brooks, Shirley, 305; quoted, 306. 
 Brougham, Lord, 201. 
 Brown, Charles, 180, 181, 182. 
 Browning Elizabeth Barrett, 151, 
 
 217. 
 
 Browning, Robert, 305. 
 Brydges, Mr. Alderman, 254. 
 Buchanan, Robert, quoted, 39. 
 Bucke, C., quoted, 10. 
 Buckland, Dean William, 174. 
 Buller, Charles, 38. 
 Buller, Mr. Justice, 56 
 BULWEK LYTTON, 23-24 ; mentioned, 
 
 194. 
 
 BUNYAN, JOHN, 25-26. 
 Burbage, Richard, 265. 
 Burdette, Robert J., quoted, 231. 
 BURKE, EDMUND, 27-28 ; mentioned, 
 
 68, 122, 123, 167. 
 Burne-Jones, Edward, 254. 
 Burney, Dr. Charles (Elder), 72, 73, 
 
 158. 
 Burney, Charles (Younger), quoted, 
 
 164,' 165. 
 BURNEY, FANNY (see Madame D'Ar- 
 
 blay). 
 
 Burns, Robert, x. 
 
 Busby, Dr. Richard, 91, 197, 246, 258. 
 BUTLER, SAMUEL, 28-29 ; mentioned, 
 
 x, 321. 
 
 Byron, Augusta Ada, 32. 
 Byron, Lady, 32. 
 BYRON, LORD, 30-35; mentioned, 
 
 145, 220,263; quoted, 257. 
 Byron, Mrs., 30. 
 
 Camden, William, 45. 
 CAMPBELL, THOMAS, 35-37; men- 
 tioned, 32. 
 
 Campbell, Mrs. Thomas, 35, 36. 
 
 CARLYLE, THOMAS, 38-40; men- 
 tioned, viii, 85 ; quoted, 147, 158. 
 
 CARTER, ELIZABETH, 4041. 
 
 Cary, Henry Francis, 192. 
 
 Casaubou, Isaac, 315. 
 
 Cave, Edward, 157, 260. 
 
 CENTLIVRE, SUSANNA, 41; men- 
 tioned, x. 
 
 Cervantes, 106. 
 
 Chantrey, Sir Francis, 72. 
 
 Chapman, Dr. John, 97, 170. 
 
 Charles I., 174. 
 
 Charles II., 66, 96, 207, 214, 301, 322. 
 
 Charles X., of France, 134. 
 
 Charlton, Margaret (see Mrs. Rich- 
 ard Baxter). 
 
 CHATTERTON, THOMAS, 42-45 ; men- 
 tioned, v. 
 
 CHAUCER, GEOFFREY, 45-48; men- 
 tioned, 20, 66, 91, 94, 257, 259, 285, 
 286. 
 
 Chawcer, Richard, 45. 
 
 CHESTERFIELD, EARL OF, 49-50; 
 mentioned, 112, 241. 
 
 Church, Mrs. Ross (Florence Mar- 
 ryat), quoted, 206. 
 
 CHURCHILL, CHARLES, 50-51 ; men- 
 tioned, 66, 70, 72. 
 
 Cibber, Caius Gabriel, 7, 54. 
 
 CIBBER, COLLEY, 52-55; mentioned, 
 x, 195. 
 
 Cibber, Theophilus, quoted, 104, 264. 
 
 Clarke, Charles Cowden, quoted, 153, 
 177, 178, 179. 
 
 Clarke, John, 178. 
 
 Clarke, Marv Cowden, quoted, 153, 
 177, 178, 179. 
 
 Clive, Lord, 202. 
 
 COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR, 56- 
 60; mentioned, 148, 184, 186, 187, 
 285, 321. 
 
 Collier, John Payne, 204. 
 
 COLLINS, WILLIAM, 60-01. 
 
 COLMAN, GEORGE (Elder), 61-62; 
 mentioned, 51, 70, 167. 
 
 COLMAN, GEORGE (Younger), 62-63. 
 
 CONCRETE, WILLIAM, 63-64; men- 
 tioned, 8, 9.
 
 INDEX OF PERSONS. 
 
 329 
 
 Constable, Archibald, quoted, 35. 
 
 Cook, Eliza, 139. 
 
 Cooke, George Willis, quoted, 98, 99. 
 
 Corry, Montagu (Lord Rowton), 
 88. 
 
 Coventry, Baron Thomas, 18. 
 
 COWLEY, ABRAHAM, 6-1-66; men- 
 tioned, 94. 
 
 COWPER, WILLIAM, 66-67; men- 
 tioned, ix, 50, 71. 
 
 CRABBE, GEORGE, 68-69; men- 
 tioned, 28. 
 
 Craik, Henry, 299. 
 
 Croft, Sir Herbert, 42, 43. 
 
 Croker, John Wilson, quoted, 160. 
 
 Cromwell, Oliver, 37, 136, 207, 213. 
 
 Crosby, Sir John, 269. 
 
 Cross, John Walter, 99. 
 
 CRUDES, ALEXANDER, 69-70. 
 
 Cruikshank, George, 305. 
 
 CUMBERLAND, RICHARD, 70-71; 
 mentioned, 66. 
 
 CUNNINGHAM, ALLAN, 71-72. 
 
 Cunningham, Peter, quoted, 20, 44, 
 52, 92, 101, 105, 169, 175, 177, 178, 
 197, 244, 246, 263, 277, 283, 288, 
 295, 301, 313, 322. 
 
 Dallas, R. C., 31. 
 
 Danvers, Sir John, 223. 
 
 D'ARBLAY, MADAME, 72-73. 
 
 Davenant, Lady, 74. 
 
 DAVENANT, SIR WILLIAM, 74-75; 
 mentioned, x, 6. 
 
 Davies, Tom, x, 21, 160, 161. 
 
 Davis, John, quoted, 42. 
 
 DAY, THOMAS, 75. 
 
 DE FOE, DANIEL, 76-78; mentioned, 
 256. 
 
 De Foe, Daniel, Jr., 77. 
 
 De Foe, Sophia, 77. 
 
 Delaney, Mrs. (Man-), 73. 
 
 Denham, Sir John, 74. 
 
 Dennis, John, mentioned, 196; 
 quoted, 231. 
 
 DE QUINCEY, THOMAS, 78-79. 
 
 DICKENS, CHARLES, 79-86; men- 
 tioned, 217, 305, 306, 320 ; quoted, 
 305. 
 
 Dickens, Charles, Jr., vi. 
 
 Dickens, Mrs. Charles, 83. 
 
 DISRAELI, BENJAMIN, 86-89; men- 
 tioned, 89. 
 
 D' ISRAELI, ISAAC, 89-90; men- 
 tioned, 87, 88, 165, 256, 292; 
 quoted, 2. 
 
 Dixon, Hepworth, 12. 
 
 Dobson, Austin, quoted, 105. 
 
 Dodsley, Robert, 11, 28, 251, 312. 
 
 Donnes, Dr. John, 173. 
 
 Doran, Dr. John, quoted, 53, 103, 
 231, 265, 283. 
 
 Downe, John, quoted, 230. 
 
 DRAYTON, MICHAEL, 90-91; men- 
 tioned, ix, 174. 
 
 Drogheda, Countess of, 322, 323. 
 
 Drummond, William, quoted, 286. 
 
 DRYDEN, JOHN, 91-96; mentioned, 
 vii, x, 48, 175, 197, 230, 243; 
 quoted, 196, 210. 
 
 Dryden, Lady Elizabeth, 92. 
 
 Dumergues, Charles, 261, 262. 
 
 D'URFEY, TOM, 96-97. 
 
 Dyce, Alexander, 85. 
 
 Dyer, George, 191. 
 
 Dyke, Bessy (Mrs. Thomas Moore), 
 220, 221. " 
 
 Dyson, Jeremiah, 10. 
 
 Edward VI., 46, 57, 108. 
 Edwardes, Edward, quoted, 251. 
 ELIOT, GEORGE, 97-99; mentioned, 
 
 170. 
 
 Elizabeth, Queen, 12, 108, 249, 250. 
 Elmsley (the Publisher), 114. 
 Elwood, Mrs. A. K., quoted, 73, 150. 
 Erasmus, 224, 225. 
 Essex, Devereux, Earl of, 7, 286. 
 EVANS. MARY ANN (George Eliot), 
 
 97-99; mentioned, 170. 
 EVELYN, JOHN, 100-102 ; mentioned, 
 
 x, 52; quoted, 66, 235. 
 Evelyn, William J., 101. 
 
 FARADAY, MICHAEL, 102-103. 
 FARQUHAR, GEORGE, 103-104. 
 Faulkner, Thomas, quoted, 106, 224, 
 290, 308, 310.
 
 330 
 
 INDEX OF PERSONS. 
 
 Ferguson, Dr. Robert, 263. 
 
 FIELDING, HENRY, 104-106; men- 
 tioned, v, x. 
 
 Fields, James T., quoted, 85, 86, 
 149, 303. 
 
 Fitzgerald, Percy, quoted, 183. 
 
 Fitzherbert, William, 159. 
 
 Flaxman, John, 257. 
 
 FLETCHER, JOHN, 107-108; men- 
 tioned, 19, 20, 103, 286. 
 
 Foe, James, 76. 
 
 Foote, Samuel, 163. 
 
 Ford, Edward, quoted, 89. 
 
 Forman, H. Buxton, quoted, 181. 
 
 Forster, John, mentioned, 79, 83, 84; 
 quoted, 77, 79, 85, 119, 123. 
 
 Fountaine, Sir Andrew, 297. 
 
 Fowler, Thomas, 172. 
 
 Fox, Charles James, 274. 
 
 Fox, JOHN, 108-109. 
 
 Fox, William Johnson, 85. 
 
 Francis, Lady, 109. 
 
 FRANCIS, SIR PHILIP, 109-110. 
 
 FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN, 110-112. 
 
 Froude, James Anthony, quoted, 38, 
 39, 40. 
 
 Fuller, Thomas, quoted, 171, 176, 
 222. 
 
 Garrick, David, x, 21, 86, 113, 123. 
 125, 156, 157, 167, 222. 
 
 Garrick, Mrs. David, 222. 
 
 Garrick, Peter, 170. 
 
 Garth, Dr. Samuel, 7, 8, 94, 259. 
 
 Gaskell, Mrs. Elizabeth Cleghorn, 
 quoted, 22-23, 305-306. 
 
 GAY, JOHN, 112-113; mentioned, 
 243, 249. 
 
 George III., 156. 
 
 GEORGE ELIOT (see Eliot, George). 
 
 GIBBON, EDWARD, 113-115. 
 
 Gilchrist, Anne, quoted, 188. 
 
 Gilfillan, Rev. George, quoted, 50. 
 
 Gilman, John, 58, 59. 
 
 Gilpin, John, 67. 
 
 Glen, William, 158. 
 
 GLOVER, RICHARD, 115. 
 
 GODWIN, WILLIAM, 116-118; quo- 
 ted, 272. 
 
 Godwin, Mrs. William (Mary Woll- 
 stonecraft), 116, 118, 256, 272. 
 
 Godwin, Mrs. William (second), 
 116, 117. 
 
 Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft (Mrs. 
 Shelley), 271, 272. 
 
 GOLDSMITH, OLIVER. 118-126; men- 
 tioned, v, 21, 91, 105, 162, 167, 
 169. 
 
 Goodwin, Dr. Thomas, 214. 
 
 Gosse, Edmund, quoted, 128. 
 
 GOWER, JOHN, 126-127 ; mentioned, 
 46. 
 
 Grant, Baron, 150. 
 
 GRAY, THOMAS, 127-129; men- 
 tioned, 71. , 
 
 Greatorex, Rev. Dan., 54. 
 
 Greville, Charles C. F., quoted, 201, 
 274. 
 
 Grimshaw, Rev. T. S., quoted, 67. 
 
 GROTE, GEORGE, 129-130. 
 
 Gwynne, Nell, 208. 
 
 HALLAM, HENRY, 131. 
 
 Halliwell-Phillipps, 172. 
 
 Hall, S. C., quoted, 57, 88, 117, 148. 
 
 Hall, Susannah, 265. 
 
 Handel, 242, 243. 
 
 Hare, Augustus J. C., quoted, 169. 
 
 Harness, Rev. William. 185. 
 
 Harris, Joseph, 95. 
 
 Harte, Walter, 2. 
 
 Hastings, Warren. 51, 66, 70, 202. 
 
 Haweis, Rev. H. R., 242. 
 
 Hawkins, Sir John, mentioned, 165; 
 quoted, 166, 169, 313. 
 
 Hawkins, Letitia Matilda, quoted, 
 224. 
 
 Haydon, Benjamin Robert, 189. 
 
 Hazlitt, John, 131. 
 
 HAZLITT, WILLIAM, 131-135; men- 
 tioned, 191, 213. 
 
 Hazlitt, Mrs. William (Sarah Stod- 
 dard), 131. 
 
 Henderson, John, 86. 
 
 Henry IV., 47. 
 
 Henry VIII., 108, 224, 256. 
 
 HERBERT, GEORGE, 136. 
 
 HERKICK, ROBERT, 136-137.
 
 INDEX OF PERSONS. 
 
 331 
 
 Hoare, Henry, 9. 
 
 Hoare, Lemuel, 68. 
 
 Hobhouse, Thomas, 33. 
 
 Hodder, George, quoted, 59, 154, 304, 
 
 306. 
 
 Hogarth, William, 79, 189, 253. 
 Holbein (Younger), 224. 
 HOLCKOFT, THOMAS, 137. 
 Holland, Lady, quoted, 93, 279. 
 Holland, Lord, 275. 
 Holland, Sir Henry, quoted, 204. 
 Holler, 0. L., 111. 
 Homer, 172, 243. 
 HOOD, THOMAS, 137-139; mentioned, 
 
 79. 
 
 Hood, Thomas, Jr., quoted, 138, 139. 
 HOOK, THEODORE, 140-143. 
 Hoole, John, 167. 
 Horace, 94, 96, 97. 
 Home, John, 309. 
 Hotten, J. C., quoted, 43. 
 Houghton, Lord, 139, 181. 
 Howitt, William, mentioned, 181, 
 
 182; quoted, 15, 43, 125, 180, 211, 
 
 213, 256, 289, 290. 
 HUME, DAVID, 143-144. 
 Humphrey, Ozias, quoted, 160. 
 HUNT, LEIGH, 144-149; mentioned, 
 
 57, 271; quoted, 4, 5, 95, 150, 158, 
 
 168, 169, 179, 180, 184, 199, 298. 
 Hunt, Mrs. Leigh, 147. 
 Hunter, Dr. John, 14. 
 
 INCHBALD, Miss., 149-151. 
 Ingleby, C. M., quoted, 215, 216, 297. 
 Ireland, William, 266. 
 Irving, Edward, 38. 
 Irving, Washington, quoted, 119, 
 121, 122, 124. 
 
 James I., 8, 13, 108, 172, 249, 250. 
 
 James H., 234. 
 
 JAMESON, ANNA, 151-152. 
 
 Jeaffreson, Dr. John B., 87. 
 
 Jeaffries, Lord, 94. 
 
 Jerrold, Blanchard, quoted, 117, 148, 
 152, 153, 154, 271. 
 
 JERROLD, DOUGLAS, 152-155 ; men- 
 tioned, 85, 117, 306. 
 
 Jesse, John H., quoted, 12, 28, 32, 
 241, 261, 276, 307. 
 
 JOHNSON, SAMUEL, 155-171; men- 
 tioned, v, ix, x, 3, 21, 49, 50, 60, 
 90, 98, 121, 122, 123, 125, 204, 
 222, 247, 253, 256, 260, 274; quo- 
 ted, 4, 6, 64, 94, 105, 120, 122, 231, 
 240, 259, 260, 261, 288, 289, 292. 
 
 Johnson, Mrs. (mother of Samuel), 
 155. 
 
 Johnson, Mrs. (wife of Samuel), 158. 
 
 Jones, Inigo, 12, 51. 
 
 Jones, Owen, 98. 
 
 JOXSON, BEN, 171-177; mentioned, 
 6, 11, 20, 74, 136, 270, 286. 
 
 Jonson, Mrs. Margaret, 172, 173. 
 
 Joyce, Dr. Thomas, 203. 
 
 Kat, Christopher, 8. 
 
 Kearsley, George, 164. 
 
 KEATS, JOHN, 177-182; mentioned, 
 
 27. 
 
 Keats, Thomas, 179, 181. 
 Kingsley, Charles, x. 
 Kingsley, Henry, x. 
 Kingston, Duke" of, 218. 
 Knatchbull, Sir Edward, 34. 
 Kneller, Sir Godfrey, 9. 
 Knight, Charles, quoted, 163, 223, 
 
 266. 
 Knipp, Mrs., 238. 
 
 LAMB, CHARLES, 182-193 ; men- 
 tioned, v, ix, x, 57, 60, 79, 
 131, 132, 133, 138, 144, 146, 178, 
 273, 284, 285, 321 ; quoted, 56. 
 
 Lamb, Elizabeth, 183, 186, 273. 
 
 Lamb, John, 183, 186, 273. 
 
 Lamb, John, Jr., 184. 
 
 Lamb, Mary, 79, 131, 132, 144, 185, 
 186, 187, 190, 193. 
 
 LANDON, LETITIA E., 194. 
 
 LANDOR, WALTER SAVAGE, 194- 
 195; mentioned, 217. 
 
 Landseer, Sir Edwin. 248. 
 
 Langbaine, Gerrard, 282. 
 
 Langton, Bennet, 123, 164. 
 ! LEE, NATHANIEL, 195-196. 
 
 Leech, John, 302, 305.
 
 332 
 
 INDEX OF PERSONS. 
 
 Lemon, Mark, 305. 
 Lenox, Mrs. Charlotte, 169. 
 L'Estrange, Sir Roger, 208. 
 Lever, Charles, x. 
 Levett, Robert, 162. 
 Lewes, George Henry, 98, 99. 
 Lewis, Mrs. (Countess of Beacons- 
 field), 89. 
 Lewis, Samuel, quoted, 54, 249, 250, 
 
 257. 
 
 Linley, Miss (Mrs. Sheridan), 273. 
 Lintot, Bernard, 159. 
 LOCKE, JOHN, 197-198; mentioned, 
 
 227. 
 Lockhart, John Gibson, quoted, 33, 
 
 73, 262, 263. 
 
 Lockliart, Mrs. J. G., 262. 
 Loftie, Rev. W. J., quoted, 62, 66, 
 
 67, 225, 268, 292, 293. 
 Lovelace, Countess of (Augusta Ada 
 
 Byron), 32. 
 
 LOVELACE, RICHARD, 198-199. 
 LOVER, SAMUEL, 199-200. 
 Lowell, James Russell, mentioned, 
 
 235 ; quoted, 252. 
 Lucas, John, 217. 
 Lysons, Samuel, quoted, 100. 
 LYTTON, LORD (see Bulwer Lytton). 
 
 MACAULAT, THOMAS BABINGTON, 
 
 200-204; quoted, 6,22, 257. 
 Macaulay, Zachary, 201. 
 Macdonald, John, quoted, 292. 
 Mackintosh, Sir James, quoted, 224. 
 Maclise, Daniel, 85. 
 Maitland, William, quoted, 158. 
 Malone, Edmund, quoted, 5, 92, 172, 
 
 173, 196, 266. 
 
 Manning, Thomas, 188, 189. 
 Manningham, John, quoted, 269. 
 MARLOWE, CHRISTOPHER, 204-205. 
 Marryat, Florence (see Mrs. Ross 
 
 Church). 
 
 MARRYAT, FREDERICK, 205-207. 
 Marryat, Joseph, 206. 
 Martin, Dr. B. E., quoted, 58, 59, 
 
 80, 84, 85, 87, 88. 
 Martin, Sir Theodore, 305. 
 MARVELL, ANDREW, 207-208. 
 
 Mary I., 108. 
 Maseres, Baron, 188. 
 MASSINGER, PHILIP, 209. 
 Masson, David, quoted, 212, 215. 
 Mathews, Charles, 34. 
 Mathews, Charles James, 305. 
 Matthews, Captain Thomas, 273. 
 Meteyard, Eliza, quoted, 14. 
 Milbanke, Miss (Lady Byron), 32. 
 Millais, John Everett, 305. 
 Miller, Joe, mentioned, 143; quoted, 
 
 291. 
 
 Milner-Gibson, Thomas, 85, 86. 
 Milner, Rev. Thomas, quoted, 317. 
 Milnes, Richard Monckton (see Lord 
 
 Ho ugh ton). 
 MILTON, JOHN, 210-216; mentioned, 
 
 4, 132, 133, 146, 153, 201, 207. 
 Milton, Mrs. John (Mary Powell), 
 
 212. 
 
 Milton, John (father of poet), 210. 
 Mitford, Dr., 216. 
 
 MITFORD, MARY RUSSELL, 216-217. 
 Montagu, Basil, 248. 
 Montagu, Mrs. Basil, 248. 
 Montague, Charles, 94. 
 Montague, Mrs. (Elizabeth), 312. 
 MONTAGUE, MARY WORTLEY, 218- 
 
 219. 
 
 Montgomery, Henry R., quoted, 287. 
 Moore, Anne Barbara, 221. 
 Moore, Peter, 274. 
 
 MOORE, THOMAS. 220-221; men- 
 tioned, 32, 33, 35, 36, 93, 262; 
 
 quoted, 4, 30, 31, 32, 34, 145, 275. 
 Moore, Mrs. Thomas, 220, 221. 
 MORE, HANNAH, 222. 
 MORE, SIR THOMAS, 222-225. 
 More, Thomas, quoted, 225. 
 MURPHY, ARTHUR, 226-227; men* 
 
 tioned, 55; quoted, 159. 
 Murray, John, 33, 34, 68, 262. 285. 
 
 Napoleon I., 134. 
 Nelson, John, quoted, 69. 
 Nelson, Lord, 125. 
 Nettleton, Robert, 208. 
 Neve, Philip, 216. 
 Newland, Abraham, 221.
 
 INDEX OF PERSONS. 
 
 333 
 
 NEWTON, SIR ISAAC, 227-229 ; men- 
 tioned, 73. 
 
 Nichols, John Gough, 277. 
 Nicolas, Sir Harris, 313. 
 Noorthhouck, John, quoted, 78. 
 
 Oldfield, Mrs., 64, 103. 
 
 Oldys, William, quoted, 196, 282, 
 3i5, 316. 
 
 OTWAY, THOMAS, 229-230; men- 
 tioned, 93. 
 
 Parkes, John James, quoted, 10, 109, 
 110, 157. 
 
 Parkes, Joseph, quoted, 109, 110. 
 
 Parnell, Thomas, 243. 
 
 Parr, Dr. Samuel, quoted, 165. 
 
 Patmore.P. G., quoted, 132, 133, 135. 
 
 Pembroke, William Herbert, Earl 
 of, 269. 
 
 Pembroke, Countess of, 269, 276. 
 
 PENN, WILLIAM, 231-232. 
 
 Pennant, Thomas, viii. 
 
 PKPYS, SAMUEL, 232-239; men- 
 tioned, ix, x ; quoted, 74, 95, 
 100, 111. 
 
 Pepys, Mrs. Samuel, 234, 235. 
 
 Percy, Bishop Thomas, quoted, 119, 
 121. 
 
 Peter the Great, 100, 234. 
 
 Philips, Robert, quoted, 25, 26. 
 
 Phillipps-Halliwell, 172. 
 
 Pink's History of Clerkenwell, 
 quoted, 19, 26, 296, 318. 
 
 Piozzi, Mrs. (see Mrs. Thrale). 
 
 Pitt, William, 109. 
 
 POPE, ALEXANDER, 240-244; men- 
 tioned, x, 2, 19, 41, 95, 112, 219, 
 245, 247, 257, 289. 
 
 Pope, Alexander (father of the 
 poet), 240, 241. 
 
 PORSON, RICHARD, 244-245. 
 
 Porter, Mrs. Lucy, 158. 
 
 Procter, Adelaide, 248. 
 
 PROCTER, B. W., 248; mentioned, 
 217; quoted, 133, 146, 257. 
 
 Quarles, Francis. 91. 
 Quiney, Richard, 270. 
 
 Radcliffe, Dr. John, 322. 
 
 Raleigh, Carew, 250, 252. 
 
 Raleigh, Lady, 250, 252. 
 
 RALEIGH, SIR WALTER, 249-252. 
 
 Ralph, James, 110. 
 
 Redding, Cyrus, quoted, 36, 321. 
 
 Reid, Stuart J., quoted, 280. 
 
 Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 21, 121. 122, 
 123, 153, 160, 161, 167, 168, 222. 
 
 Richard III., 269. 
 
 RICHARDSON, SAMUEL, 252-255; 
 mentioned, 16, 118; quoted, 215. 
 
 Richardson, Mrs. Samuel, 253, 255. 
 
 Riley, Henry Thomas, 46. 
 
 Ritchie, Mrs. R. (Anne Thackeray), 
 303. 
 
 Robinson, Henry C., mentioned, 321; 
 quoted, 15, 56, 57, 193. 
 
 Robinson, Jacob, 27. 
 
 Robinson, William, quoted, 314. 
 
 Rochester, Earl of, 95. 
 
 Rogers, Dr. Joseph, 125. 
 
 ROGERS, SAMUEL, 255-258; men- 
 tioned, 15, 22, 32, 36, 73, 93, 165, 
 221, 262, 284, 321 ; quoted, 33, 57, 
 58, 69, 309, 319. 
 
 Roper. Margaret, 225. 
 
 Roscoe, William, quoted, 243. 
 
 Roubilliac, S. F., 257. 
 
 Rousseau, J. J., 143, 144, 162. 
 
 ROWE, NICHOLAS, 258-259. 
 
 Rowton, Lord (see Montagu 
 Corry). 
 
 Russell, Dr. William H., 305. 
 
 St. John, Henry (Bolingbroke), 242. 
 
 Salter, Mr. (Don Saltero), 291. 
 
 SAVAGE, RICHARD, 259-261; men- 
 tioned, 157, 288. 
 
 SCOTT, SIR WALTER, 261-263; men- 
 tioned, 73 : quoted, 92, 93, 94, 175. 
 
 Severn, Joseph, 181. 
 
 SHADWELL, THOMAS, 264 ; men- 
 tioned, 92; quoted, 107. 
 
 Shakspere, Edmond, 267, 269. 
 
 SHAKSPERE. 264-271 ; mentioned, 
 20, 71, 125, 146. 153, 154, 162, 172, 
 175, 176, 215, 216, 257, 286, 301, 
 306, 315, 316; quoted, 223.
 
 334 
 
 INDEX OF PERSONS. 
 
 SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE, 271-272. 
 
 Shelley, Mrs., 271. 
 
 Shelley, Sir Timothy, 272. 
 
 SHENSTONE, WILLIAM, 272. 
 
 Sheppard, Jack, 143. 
 
 SHERIDAN, RICHARD BRINSLEY, 
 273-275; mentioned. 86, 167. 
 
 Sheridan, Mrs. (Miss Linley), 273. 
 
 SHIRLEY, JAMES, 275-276. 
 
 Shirley, Mrs. James, 276. 
 
 Siddons, Mrs., 283. 
 
 SIDNEY, SIR PHILIP, 276-277. 
 
 Sloane, Sir Hans, 224. 
 
 Smith, Charles Roach, quoted, 9, 45, 
 246, 254. 
 
 Smith, George, 23. 
 
 SMITH, HORACE, 277-278. 
 
 SMITH, JAMES, 277-278. 
 
 Smith, James, quoted, 23. 
 
 Smith, Robert ('Bobus'), 170, 256, 
 280. . 
 
 SMITH, SYDNEY, 278-280; men- 
 tioned, 93. 
 
 Smitlrwick, John, 91. 
 
 SMOLLETT, TOBIAS, 280-282. 
 
 Somerset, Protector, 311. 
 
 SOUTHERNS, THOMAS, 282-284. 
 
 SOUTHEY, ROBERT, 284-285; men- 
 Jionifed, 60, 132, 187; quoted, 318, 
 319. 
 
 Sparks, Jared, 111. 
 
 Speght, T., quoted, 46. 
 
 Spence, Joseph, 2, 6, 8, 63, 65, 231, 
 240. 
 
 SPENSER, EDMUND, 285-286; men- 
 tioned, 91, 146. 
 
 Spenser, Gabriel, 173. 
 
 Spiller, John, 54. 
 
 Sprat, Dean Thomas, 65. 
 
 Stanfield, Clarkson, 85, 217. 
 
 Stanhope, Sir William, 241. 
 
 Stanley, Dean Arthur Penrhyn, men- 
 tioned, 315; quoted, 47, 86, 91, 112, 
 174, 203, 204, 229, 286. 
 
 Staunton, Howard, quoted, 253. 
 
 STEELE, SIR RICHARD, 287-291; 
 mentioned, v, x, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 97, 
 261. 
 
 Steele, Lady, 288, 289, 290. 
 
 Steele, Mrs. Richard, 288. 
 
 STERNE, LAURENCE, 292-294. 
 
 Stevens, George, 216. 
 
 Stoddard, Sarah (Mrs. Hazlitt), 131. 
 
 Stow, John, mentioned, viii; quoted, 
 48, 104, 127, 173, 195, 227, 235, 
 267, 269. 
 
 Strype, John, mentioned, viii; quo- 
 ted, 18, 104, 170, 176, 237. 
 
 Stuart, Lady Louisa, 218. 
 
 Stukely, Dr. William, 228. 
 
 SUCKLING, SIR JOHN, 294-295. 
 
 Suckling, Rev. Alfred, 295. 
 
 SWEDENBORG, EMANUEL, 296-297. 
 
 SWIFT, JONATHAN, 297-300; men- 
 tioned, 3, 241, 243; quoted, 7, 247. 
 Symington, A. J., quoted, 221. 
 
 Talfourd, Thomas Noon, mentioned, 
 188, 191; quoted, 183,185, 188, 190, 
 191. 
 
 Taylor. John, quoted, 53, 55, 110, 
 245.' 
 
 TAYLOR, JOHN (Water Poet), 301- 
 302. 
 
 Taylor, Rev. John, 165. 
 
 Taylor, Tom, mentioned, 302, 305; 
 quoted, 228. 
 
 Terence, 97. 
 
 Thackeray, Anne (Mrs. Ritchie), 303. 
 
 THACKERAY,WILLIAM MAKEPEACE, 
 302-306; mentioned, ix, 3, 154, 
 203; quoted, 2, 105, 287. 
 
 Theodore, King of Corsica, 134. 
 
 Thirlwall, Bishop, 130. 
 
 Thompson, Edward, quoted, 208. 
 
 Thompson, Mrs. A. F., quoted, 72. 
 
 THOMSON, JAMES, 307-308. 
 
 Thome, James, quoted. 14, 36, 65, 
 106, 129, 148, 180, 181, 182, 206, 
 219, 221, 241, 311, 312. 
 
 Thrale, Henry, 163, 168. 
 
 Thrale, Mrs. Henry, 156, 163; quo- 
 ted, 307. 
 
 Throgmorton, Elizabeth (Lady Ra- 
 leigh), 250, 252. 
 
 Thurlow, Lord Chancellor, 201. 
 
 Thynne, Charles. 251. 
 
 Tickell, Thomas, 5.
 
 INDEX OF PERSONS. 
 
 335 
 
 Ticknor, George, quoted, 36. 
 Timbs, John, quoted, 24, 142, 143, 
 
 240. 
 
 Todd, H. J., quoted, 212, 214. 
 Tonson, Jacob, 8, 9. 
 TOOKE, JOHN HORNE, 309-310. 
 Traill, H. D., quoted, 293. 
 Trevelyan, G. 0., quoted, 201, 202, 
 
 203. 
 
 Trevelyan, Lady, 203. 
 Trollope, Anthony, 302, 305. 
 Turner. J. M. W., 245. 
 
 Vanbrugh, Sir John, 8. 
 Vandyke, 295. 
 Vaughan, Sir John, 13. 
 Veuables, George, 302. 
 Vernon and Hood, 137. 
 Verrio, Antonio, 144. 
 Vertue, George, 295. 
 Victoria, Queen, 39, 234, 306. 
 Voltaire, quoted, 63, 64. 
 Von Homrigh, Esther, 298, 299. 
 
 Walcott, M. E. C., quoted, 27, 47. 
 
 Walford, Edward, quoted, 49, 228, 
 230, 259. 
 
 WALLER, EDMUND, 310-311; men- 
 tioned, x. 
 
 WALPOLE, HORACE, 311-313 ; men- 
 tioned, 5. 53, 128, 222, 241 ; quoted, 
 219, 226. 
 
 Walpole, Sir Robert, 311. 
 
 Walter, James, quoted, 265. 
 
 WALTON, IZAAK, 313 - 315 ; men- 
 tioned, 64 ; quoted, 136, 173. 
 
 Ward, Edward, 315, 316. 
 
 Ward, E. M., R. A., 49. 
 
 Warwick, Countess of, 3, 4, 6, 322. 
 
 Warwick, Earl of, 3, 4, 5. 
 
 WATTS, ISAAC, 316-317. 
 Wei wood, Dr., quoted, 259. 
 WESLEY, JOHN, 318-319. 
 Wheatley, B. W., quoted, 114. 
 White, Gilbert, quoted, 61. 
 White, William, quoted, 297. 
 Whitefield, Rev. George, 318. 
 Whittington, Richard, 145. 
 Wilde, John, 253. 
 Wilkes, John, 51. 
 Wilkes, Robert, 104. 
 Wilkie, David, 153. 
 William III., 264. 
 William IV., 125, 270. 
 William of Wickham, 126. 
 Williams, Anna, 158, 162, 163. 
 Williams, Dr. Charles J. B., 24. 
 Wilson, Richard, 321. 
 Wilson, Sir Robert, 174. 
 Winter, William, quoted, 59, 252. 
 Witherborne, Dr., 13. 
 WITHER, JOHN, 320. 
 WOLCOT, JOHN, 320-321; men- 
 tioned, x. 
 Wollstonecraft, Mary (Mrs. Godwin), 
 
 116, 118, 256, 272. 
 Wood, Anthony, mentioned, 107; 
 
 quoted, 29, 198, 199, 209, 212, 275, 
 
 283, 313, 314. 
 
 Wordsworth, Dorothy, 190. 
 WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM, 321-322; 
 
 mentioned, 15, 58, 185, 217. 
 Wren, Sir Christopher, 45, 92, 136, 
 
 199, 210, 265, 324. 
 WYCHERLEY, WILLIAM, 322-323 ; 
 
 mentioned, x. 
 
 Yates, Edmund, quoted, 306. 
 YOUNG, EDWARD, 324; mentioned, 
 ix, 5, 63.
 
 INDEX OF PLACES. 
 
 ABBOTSFORD, 263. 
 
 Abchurch Lane, 102, 290, 300. 
 
 Aberdeen, 69. 
 
 Abingdon Buildings, Westminster, 
 
 71. 
 
 Abingdon Street, Westminster, 71. 
 Abney Park Cemetery, 317. 
 Acton, 17, 106. 
 Adam and Eve Tavern, Kensington 
 
 Koad, 275. 
 
 Adam Street, Adelphi, 139. 
 Addlestone, Surrey, 75. 
 Adelaide Road, 289. 
 Adelphi, The, 87, 138, 139. 
 Adelphi Club, Maiden Lane, Covent 
 
 Garden, 245. 
 Adelphi Terrace, Adelphi, 139, 222, 
 
 249. 
 African Tavern, St. Michael's Alley, 
 
 Cornhill, 245. 
 Airlie Lodge, Carnpden Hill, 202, 
 
 203. 
 
 Albany, The, Piccadilly, 23, 32, 202. 
 Albemarle Street, Piccadilly, 32, 33, 
 
 34, 35, 53, 68, 102, 115, 263, 284. 
 Albert Hall, Kensington, 195. 
 Albion Street, Oxford Street, 293, 
 
 303. 
 Albion Tavern, Aldersgate Street. 
 
 130. 
 
 Albion Tavern, Russell Street, Co- 
 vent Garden, 154-155. 
 Albyn House, Parson's Green, 255. 
 Aldersgate Street, 64, 75. 108, 130, 
 
 170, 211, 212, 213, 30], 322. 
 Aldgate, 46-47. 
 
 22 
 
 Alexandra Palace, 221. 
 
 Alfred Club, Albemarle Street, 34-35. 
 
 All Hallows Church, Bread Street, 
 
 210. 
 All Hallows Lane, Upper Thames 
 
 Street, 239. 
 
 All Saints Church, Fulham, 142. 
 Almack's, 305. 
 
 Alma Terrace, Fulham Road, Ham- 
 mersmith, 206. 
 Almonry Office, Middle Scotland 
 
 Yard, 37. 
 
 Alpha Road, St. John's Wood, 193. 
 Amen Corner, Paternoster Row, 279. 
 Amen Court, Paternoster Row, 279. 
 Amesbury, 112. 
 Angel Court, High Street, Borough, 
 
 80. 
 
 Apothecaries' Hall, 265. 
 Apsley House, 261, 273. 
 Argyll Lodge, Campden Hill, 203. 
 Argyll Road, Kensington Road, 275. 
 Argyll Rooms, 295. 
 Arlington Street, Piccadilly, 218, 311. 
 Arthur Street, Fulham Ro'ad, 221. 
 Artillery Ground, Bunhill Row, 318. 
 Artillery Place, Bunhill Row, 215. 
 Artillery Walk, Bunhill Row, 214- 
 
 215. 
 Arundel Hotel, Norfolk Street, 
 
 Strand, 232. 
 Arundel House, Highgate Hill, 13- 
 
 14. 
 
 Arundel House, Strand, 235. 
 Arundel Street, Strand, 117, 155, 170, 
 
 235, 258.
 
 338 
 
 INDEX OF PLACES. 
 
 Athenaeum Club, 24, 103, 142-143, 
 
 204, 221, 258, 278, 306. 
 Augustus Square, Regent's Park, 153. 
 Augustus Street, Regent's Park, 153. 
 Austin Friars, 277. 
 Axe Yard (Fluyder Street), 75, 2-33. 
 
 BACK LANE, Twickenham, 105. 
 Back Road, Islington, 250. 
 Baker Street, Entield, 205. 
 Baker Street, Portman Square, 23. 
 Ball's Pond, Newiugton Green, 256. 
 Bankend, Bankside, 266. 
 Bankside, 19, 20, 107, 118, 174, 176, 
 
 209, 266, 270. 
 Barbican, Aldersgate Street, 212, 
 
 213, 301. 
 Barn-Elms, 9, 65. 
 Barnes, 200. 
 Barnes Common, 106. 
 Barnsbury Road, Penton Street, 126. 
 Bartholomew Close, Little Britain, 
 
 110, 111, 214. 
 
 Bartholomew Lane, City, 130. 
 Bartlett's Buildings, Fetter Lane, 183. 
 Bartlett's Passage, Fetter Lane, 183. 
 Basinghall Street, 235, 237. 
 Batemau's Buildings, Soho Square, 
 
 61. 
 
 Battersea, 65, 242. 
 Battersea Bridge, 224. 
 Bay Cottage, Edmonton, 192. 
 Bayhani Street, Camden Town, 79, 
 
 81. 
 
 Bays water, 299. 
 Beaconsfield, Bucks, 28, 310. 
 Bear and Harrow, Butcher Row, 196. 
 Bear-at-the-Bridge-Foot, 295, 323. 
 Bear Gardens, 174, 266, 267, 268. 
 Bear Inn, Southwark, 238. 
 Beauchamp Tower, Tower of London, 
 
 251. 
 
 Beaufort Buildings, Strand, 106. 
 Beaufort House, Chelsea, 224. 
 Beaufort Row, Chelsea, 224. 
 Beaufort Street, Chelsea, 224. 
 Beaumont Street, Marylebone, 195, 
 
 248. 
 Beckenham, Kent, 129. 
 
 Bedfordbury, 274. 
 
 Bedford Coffee House, Covent Gar- 
 den, 51, 61, 106, 226, 242, 274, 31-2. 
 Bedford Gardens (Bedford Square), 
 
 128. 
 Bedford Head Tavern, Maiden Lane, 
 
 Coveiit Garden, 207. 
 Bedford Hotel, Covent Garden, 5, 
 
 303. 
 Bedford House (Southampton 
 
 House), Bloouisbury Square, 52. 
 Bedford Place, Russell Square, 71, 
 
 156, 217. 
 
 Bedford Square, 140. 
 Bedford Street, Covent Garden, 49, 
 
 245, 259. 
 
 Bedford Tavern, Maiden Lane, Co- 
 vent Garden, 207. 
 Beefsteak Club, 51, 62, 63, 226. 
 Belgrave Place, Belgrave Square, 130. 
 Belgrave Square, 130. 
 Bell Inn, Aldersgate, 301. 
 Bell Inn, Cartel Lane, 270, 271. 
 Bell Inn, Fore Street, Edmonton, ix, 
 
 192. 
 Bell Inn, King Street, Westminster, 
 
 236, 244, 300. 
 Bennet's Hill, City, 105. 
 Bennett Street, St. James's Street, 
 
 31, 115. 
 Beutinck Street, Manchester Square, 
 
 114. 
 
 Berkeley House, Piccadilly, 310. 
 Berkeley Square, 53, 71, 219, 311, 
 
 312. 
 Berkeley Street, Piccadilly, 240, 241, 
 
 310. 
 Berners Street, Oxford Street, 140- 
 
 141, 199. 
 
 Bethlehem Hospital, 175-176. 
 Bethnal Green, 69. 
 Bevis Marks, 86. 
 Birchin Lane, Cornhill, 44, 128, 200, 
 
 300. 
 
 Bird-in-Hand-Court, Cheapside, 179. 
 Bishop of London's Meadows, Ful- 
 
 ham, 24, 143. 
 Bishopsgate Street, 185, 195, 268, 
 
 276, 295.
 
 INDEX OF PLACES. 
 
 339 
 
 Blackfriars, 112. 
 Blackfriars Bridge, 216, 268. 
 Blackfriars Koad, 141. 
 Blackfriars Theatre, 265, 200. 
 Black Jack Tavern, 143. 
 Blackmail's Street, Southwark, 17. 
 Black-Spread-Eagle-Court, Bread 
 
 Street, Cheapside, 210. 
 Blandford Square, 98. 
 Blandford Street, Portman Square, 
 
 102. 
 Bloody Tower, Tower of London, 
 
 251. 
 
 Bloomfield Street, Finsbury, 196. 
 Bloomsbury Square, 10, 17, 52, 87, 
 
 88, 90, 128, 131, 288. 
 Bloomsbury Street, 140. 
 Blue Bells Tavern, Lincoln's Inn 
 
 Fields, 238. 
 
 Blue Coat School (see Christ-Hos- 
 pital). 
 Blue Hart Court, Coleman Street, 
 
 20. 
 
 Blue Stocking Club, 312. 
 Boar's Head Tavern, Eastcheap, 
 
 125, 270. 
 
 Bodleian Library, Oxford, 9, 234. 
 Bolingbroke House, Battersea, '242. 
 Bolt Court, Fleet Street, 90, 158, 163, 
 
 1G4, 165, 222, 256. 
 Bolton House, Hampstead, 14. 
 Bolton Street, Piccadilly, 34, 73. 
 Bond Street, 114, 307. 
 Boodle's Club House, 115. 
 Borough High Street, 10, 17, 48, 80, 
 
 163, 320. 
 
 Borough Market, Southwark, 70. 
 Borough Road, Southwark, 17. 
 Boswell Court, Carey Street, 195. 
 Boulogne, France, 37. 
 Bournemouth, 118. 
 Bouverie Street, Fleet Street, 133. 
 Bow Church, 210. 
 Bow Lane, Cheapside, 45. 
 Bow Street, Covent Garden, x, 105- 
 
 106, 152, 155, 170, 189, 190, 237, 
 
 243, 299, 307, 310. 
 
 Bradenham House, Buckingham- 
 shire, 90. 
 
 Brandenburg House, Hammersmith, 
 
 2<. 
 Bread Street, Cheapside, 176, 210, 
 
 270, 271. 
 
 Breakneck Stairs, 119, 120. 
 Brentford, 177, 309. 
 Brew House, Axe Vai'.l. 75. 
 Brio;. Court, Middle Temple Lane, 
 
 100, 121, !. 
 
 Bridge Street, Westminster, 57. 
 Bridgewater House, St. James's 
 
 Street, 240. 
 
 British Coffee House, 170, 282. 
 British Institution, Pall Mall, 144. 
 British Museum. 25, 53, 89, 128, 140, 
 
 152, 178, 201, 270, 271. 
 Broad Court, Bow Street, Long Acre, 
 
 118, 152, 155. 
 
 Broad Sanctuary, Westminster, 227. 
 Bromley, 318. 
 
 Brompton, Kensington, 194. 
 Brompton, near Huntingdon, 232. 
 Brompton Road, 153, 226. 
 Brompton Square, 63. 
 Brooke Street, Holborn, 42, 43, 44, 
 
 260. 
 Brooks' s Club, St. James's Street, 28, 
 
 110, 115, 144, 221, 274, 312. 
 Brothers' Club, 247, 300. 
 Brunswick Square, 248. 
 Bruton Street, Berkeley Square, 53, 
 
 151. 
 Brydges Street, Drury Lane, 113, 
 
 189, 237. 
 
 Buckingham Court, Strand, 41, 246. 
 Buckingham Gate, 115. 
 Buckingham House (Buckingham 
 
 Palace), 156, 298. 
 Buckingham House, Chelsea, 224. 
 Buckingham Palace, 95, 102, 156, 298. 
 Buckingham Palace Road, 37, 71. 
 Buckingham Street, Strand, 12, 104, 
 
 234, 282. 
 
 Bucklersbury, 223. 224. 
 Bull and Bush Tavern, Hammer- 
 smith, 8. 
 Bullingham House, Campden Hill, 
 
 228. 
 Bull Inn Court, Strand, 238.
 
 340 
 
 INDEX OF PLACES. 
 
 Bull Inn, Shoreditch, 227. 
 Bull Inn, Tower Hill, 231. 
 Bull's Head Tavern, Clare Market, 
 
 290. 
 Bull's Head Tavern, Spring Gardens, 
 
 52, 53, 213. 
 Bunhill Fields, 25, 26, 78, 214, 215, 
 
 317, 318. 
 
 Bunhill Row, 215. 
 Burford Bridge, 180. 
 Burlington Arcade, 140. 
 Burlington Gardens, 10, 30, 32, 112, 
 
 273, 279. 
 
 Burlington Street, Strand, 113. 
 Burnham, 130. 
 Burnham Beeches, 128. 
 Bury Street, St. James's Street, 30, 
 
 68, 220, 263, 271, 288, 297, 298. 
 Bury Street, St. Mary Axe, 317. 
 Butcher Row, 170, 196, 272. 
 Button's Coffee House, x, 6, 149, 
 
 175, 260, 291, 300. 
 
 CADOGAN PLACE, Sloane Street, 201. 
 Cambridge, 19, 65, 70, 91, 136, 171, 
 
 175, 195, 205, 211, 227, 244, 245, 
 
 293. 
 
 Camden Passage, Islington, 69, 70. 
 Camden Town, 321. 
 Campden Grove, Kensington, 228. 
 Campden Hill, Kensington, 202, 228, 
 
 299. 
 
 Cannon Row, Westminster, 197. 
 Cannon Street, 92, 115, 125, 239, 
 
 268, 271. 
 
 Cannon Street Station, 239. 
 Cannons, Edgeware, 243. 
 Canon Alley, St. Paul's Churchyard, 
 
 109, 167. 
 
 Canonbury Fields, Islington, 87. 
 Canonbury House, Islington, 122. 
 Canonbury Place, Islington, 122. 
 Canonbury Square, Islington, 122. 
 Canonburv Tower, Islington, 87, 
 
 122. 
 
 Canon Row, Westminster, 239. 
 Canterbury, 48, 225. 
 Capel Court, Bartholomew Lane, 130. 
 Carey House (Tavern), Strand, 238. 
 
 Carey Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, 
 
 74, 198. 
 
 Carlisle Street, Soho, 61. 
 Garlton House, 18, 258. 
 Carmarthen, Wale*, 290. 
 Carter Lane, Doctors' Commons, 265, 
 
 270. 
 
 Castle Street, Cavendish Square, 157. 
 Castle Street, Holborn, 74. 
 Castle Tavern, Henrietta Street, Co- 
 vent Garden, 273. 
 Castle Tavern, Islington, 54. 
 Castle Tavern, Savoy, 238. 
 Castle Yard, Holborn, 74. 
 Cat and Fiddle Inn, 8, 218. 
 Catherine Street, Strand, 156, 237. 
 Cavendish Square, 30, 36, 109, 151, 
 
 219. 
 Cavendish Street, Cavendish Square, 
 
 151. 
 
 Chalfont, Bucks, 232. 
 Chalton Street, Euston Road, 116. 
 Chancery Lane, 64, 133, 135, 172, 173, 
 
 188. 191, 238, 239, 274, 313, 316. 
 Chandos Street, Covent Garden, 142, 
 
 239, 274. 
 
 Change Alley, Cornhill, 300. 
 Channel Row, Westminster, 197. 
 Chantry House, 72. - 
 Chapel Place, Poultry, 137. 
 Chapel Royal, St. James's, 141. 
 Chapel Street, Mayfair, 40, 41. 271. 
 Chapel Street, Pentonville, 187-188. 
 Chapel Street, Portland Place, 320. 
 Chapel Street, Somers Town, 116. 
 Chapter Coffee House, Paternoster 
 
 Row, 22, 44, 124. 
 Chapter House Court. Paternoster 
 
 Row. 44. 
 Charing Cross, 41, 53, 171, 176, 213, 
 
 233, 236, 238, 239, 244, 246, 260, 
 
 268, 307. 
 
 Charing Cross Station, 12, 81. 
 Charles Street, Berkeley Square, 23- 
 
 24, 280. 
 
 Charles Street, Berners Street, 199. 
 Charles Street, Manchester Square, 
 
 102. 
 Charles Street, Portland Square, 102.
 
 INDEX OF PLACES. 
 
 341 
 
 Charles Street, St. James's Square, 
 
 26, 28, 68, 104. 
 
 Charles Street, Westminster, 75, 247. 
 Charlotte Street, Bedford Square, 140. 
 Charter House, 108, 222, 275. 
 Charter House Laue, 19. 
 Charter House School, 1, 2, 75, 129, 
 
 198, 287, 302, 318. 
 
 Charter House Square, v, 1, 19, 75. 
 Charter House Street, 19. 
 Charter House Yard, 18. 
 Chase Side, Eufield, 191. 
 Chatelain's Coffee House. 238. 
 Cheapside, 77, 136, 175-176, 179, 
 
 211, 236, 239, 270, 322. 
 Chelsea, viii, 1, 3, 38, 63, 99, 112, 
 
 146, 153, 197, 223, 224, 264, 281- 
 
 282, 288, 291, 298, 311. 
 Chelsea Church, 63, 225, 264, 290, 
 
 298. 
 
 Chelsea Hospital, 311. 
 Chelsea Workhouse, Fulham Road, 
 
 197. 
 Chenies Street, Tottenham Court 
 
 Road, 151. 
 Chertsey, 65-66. 
 
 Cheshire Cheese Tavern, 120, 170. 
 Cheshunt, Herts, 317. 
 Chesterfield House, 49, 50. 
 Cheyne Row, Chelsea, 99. 
 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, 112, 282. 
 Chigwell, 232. 
 
 Chigwell Grammar School, 232. 
 Child's Bank, Fleet Street, 6, 175. 
 Child's Coffee House, 7. 
 Chiswell Street, Fiusbury Square, 
 
 108, 215. 
 Chiswick, 241. 
 Chiswick Church, 241. 
 Chiswick Lane, 241. 
 Christ Church, Enfield, 191. 
 Christ Church, Newgate Street, 18. 
 Christ Church, Oxford, 232. 
 Christ-Hospital, 56-57, 60, 144, 183, 
 
 184, 253. 
 Churches : All Hallows, Bread Street. 
 
 210; All Saints, Fulham, 142; Bow, 
 
 210: Chapel Royal, St. James's, 
 
 141 ; Chelsea. 63, 225, 264, 290, 298 ; 
 
 Chiswick, 241; Christ, Enfield, 
 191; Christ, Newgate Street, 18; 
 Christ, Oxford, 232; Danish, Well- 
 close Square, 54; Edmonton, 192- 
 193 ; Grosvenor Chapel, South 
 Audley Street, 41, 50, 219; Hack- 
 ney, 77; Hampstead, 15; Holy 
 Trinity, Little Queen Street, Hoi- 
 born, 187; Kensington (see St. 
 Mary, Kensington); Lady Chapel, 
 Westminster Abbey, 47; Maryle- 
 bone, 146; Orange Chapel, St. 
 Martin's Street, Leicester Square, 
 227; St. Andrew's, Holborn, 87, 
 131-132, 259 ; St. Andrews-by-the- 
 Wardrobe, 265; St. Ann's, Carter 
 Lane, 265; St. Ann's, Soho, 134; 
 St. Bartholomew the Great, 214; 
 St. Benedict's Chapel, Westminster 
 Abbey, 20, 48; St. Benet's, Paul's 
 Wharf, 105; St. Benuet Fink, 16, 
 240; St. Botolph's, Aldgate, 47; 
 St. Bride's, Fleet Street, 92, 199, 
 211, 212, 255; St. Clement Danes, 
 92, 117, 165-166, 170, 195, 196, 
 231; St. Dunstan's, Canterbury, 
 225; St. Dunstau's, Fleet Street, 
 6, 17, 91, 198, 257; St. Faith's, 
 211; St. George's, Hanover Square, 
 4, 99, 293; St. George's, South- 
 wark, 80, 81, 320; St. Giles's, 
 Cripplegate, 76, 77, 108, 215, 216; 
 St. Giles' s-in-the-Fields, 208, 276; 
 St. Helen's, Bishopsgate, 268; 
 St. James's, Clerkenwell, 314; St. 
 James's, Garlickhithe, 45; St. 
 John's Chapel, Hampstead, 182; 
 St. John the Evangelist, Smith 
 Square, 50-51; St. Katherine Cree, 
 47; St. Lawrence's, Brentford, 309; 
 St. Luke's, Chelsea, 63, 225, 264, 
 290, 298; St. Margaret's, West- 
 minster, 35, 66-67, 233, 252, 310; 
 St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, 11, 41, 
 92, 104, 171, 172, 173, 220, 
 245, 278, 301, 302; St. Mary-Al- 
 dermary, 45; St. Mary-at-Hill, 
 324: St. Mary Axe, 87," 317; St. 
 Marylebone, 12, 30; St. Mary-
 
 842 
 
 INDEX OF PLACES. 
 
 le-Bow, 210; St. Mary-le-Savoy, 
 320; St. Mary-le-Strand, 116; St. 
 Mary-Magdalen, Milk Street, 17; 
 St. Mary-Magdalen, Richmond, 
 308; St." Mary-Overy, 107, 108, 
 126, 127, 209/266, 267, 269; St. 
 Mary's Chapel, Westminster Ab- 
 bey, 47; St. Mary's, Ealing, 309; 
 St. Mary's, Kensington, 62, 63, 
 151, 203;" St. Mary's, Putney, 113; 
 St. Mary's, Wyndham Place, Bry- 
 anston Square, 194; St. Mary- 
 Woolchurch, 275; St. Michael's, 
 Cornhill, 128; St. Michael's, High- 
 gate, 58; St. Michael's, Old Ve- 
 rulain, 13; St. Mildred's, Bread 
 Street, 271; St. Nicholas's, Dept- 
 ford, 204-205; St. Olive's, Hart 
 Street, 233, 234, 235, 238; St. Fau- 
 cras-in-the-Fields, 116, 118, 271, 
 273, 316; St. Paul's Cathedral, 39, 
 109, 278-277, 279; St. Paul's, Co- 
 vent Garden, x, 29, 41, 218, 283, 
 284, 302, 321, 323 ; St. Paul's, Dock 
 Street, 54; St. Paul's, Hammer- 
 smith, 226; St. Peter's, Southwark, 
 268; St. Saviour's, Southwark, 
 107, 108, 126, 127, 209, 266, 267, 
 269; St. Sepulchre's, Holborn, 26, 
 116. 117; St. Swithin's, London 
 Stone, 92; St. Vedast's, Foster 
 Lane, 136; Savoy Chapel, 46, 320; 
 Stepney, 250; Stoke Newington, 
 16; Stoke Pogis, 129; Swedish, 
 Ratcliffe Highway, 296; Temple, 
 123; Tower Chapel, 225; Twicken- 
 ham, 242; Westminster Abbey, 5, 
 20, 24, 37, 39, 47, 51, 53, 66, 74, 91, 
 94, 101, 112, 130, 164-165, 172, 
 173, 174, 203-204, 214, 227, 229, 
 259, 264, 274, 285, 286, 288, 315; 
 Zoar Chapel, Southwark, 25. 
 
 Church Entry, Carter Lane, 265. 
 
 Church Lane, Chelsea, 298. 
 
 Church Road, Battersea, 242. 
 
 Church Row, Islington, 250. 
 
 Church Street, Chelsea, 264, 298. 
 
 Church Street, Edmonton, 178, 192. 
 
 Church Street, Fulham Road, 221. 
 
 Church Street, Greenwich, 157. 
 
 Church Street, Kensington, 228. 
 
 Church Street, Stoke Newington, 16, 
 77. 
 
 Cider Cellar, Maiden Lane. Covent 
 Garden, 245. 
 
 Circus Road, St. John's Wood, 154. 
 
 City Road, viii, 26, 126, 146, 317, 
 318, 319. 
 
 City Road Chapel, 319. 
 
 Clapham, 138, 200, 201, 234, 253. 
 
 Clapham Common, 201. 
 
 Clare Market, Lincoln's Inn Fields, 
 54, 55, 196, 290. 
 
 Clarence Gate, Regent's Park, 262. 
 
 Clarendon Hotel, New Bond Street, 
 167. 
 
 Clarendon Square, Somers Town, 116. 
 
 Clarges Street, Piccadilly, 40, 202. 
 
 Clement's Inn. 222. 
 
 Clerkenwell, 157, 172, 314, 315, 318. 
 
 Clerkenwell Green, 315. 
 
 Cleveland Court, St. James's Street, 
 240. 
 
 Cleveland Row, St. James's Street, 
 141. 
 
 Clifford Street, New Bond Street, 32. 
 
 Clifton's Tavern, Butcher Row, 170. 
 
 Clink Street, Southwark, 266. 
 
 Clock House, Hampstead, 15. 
 
 Cloth Fair, City, 214. 
 
 Clothworkers' Hall, Mincing Lane, 
 235. 
 
 Club, The, x, 21, 22, 28, 115, 123, 
 131, 167, 204, 274, 280. 
 
 Clubs: Adelphi, Maiden Lane, Co- 
 vent Garden, 245; Alfred, Albe- 
 marle Street, 34-35; Athenseum, 
 24, 103, 142, 143, 204, 221, 258, 278, 
 306; Beefsteak, 51, 62, 63, 226; 
 Blue Stocking, 312; Boodle's, 115; 
 Brooks' s, 28, 110, 115, 144, 221, 
 274, 312; Brothers', 247, 300; Club, 
 The, x, 21, 22, 28, 115, 123, 131, 
 167, 204, 274, 280; Cocoa Tree, 
 8, 35, 115; Conservative, 114, 204; 
 Crockford's, 142; Devonshire, 142; 
 Dilettanti Society, 62; East India 
 Service, 110; Eccentric 274; Gar-
 
 INDEX OF PLACES. 
 
 343 
 
 rick, 200, 278, 306, 307; Gratis, 
 155; Hook and Eye, 154; Ivy 
 Lane, 166, 169; King of Clubs, 
 170, 258, 288; King's Head, 166, 
 167; Kit Kat, 8, 64, 218, 289, 290; 
 Literary (see The Club) ; Mulberry, 
 118; Museum, 155; October, 243, 
 244, 300; Our Club, 154; Reform, 
 154, 306; Rota, 208, 238; Saville, 
 274; Scriblereus, 113, 243, 244, 300; 
 Spiller's Head, 54; The Club (see 
 Club, The); Union, 278; United 
 Service, 207; Wader's, 34; White's, 
 54; Whittington, 153, 170, 258. 
 
 Clunn's Tavern, Covent Garden, 154. 
 
 Cockpit Alley, Drury Lane, 75. 
 
 Cockpit Place, Drury Lane, 75. 
 
 Cockpit Theatre, 75. 
 
 Cockspur Street, 170, 282. 
 
 Cock Tavern, Bow Street, Covent 
 Garden, 322, 323. 
 
 Cock Tavern, Fleet Street, 170, 238. 
 
 Cock Tavern, Suffolk Street, Hay- 
 market, 238. 
 
 Cock Tavern, Tothill Street, 284. 
 
 Cocoa Tree Club, 8, 35, 115. 
 
 Cocoa Tree Tavern, 7-8, 247, 259. 
 
 Coffee Houses (see Taverns). 
 
 Coldbath Fields, 296. 
 
 Ce'dbath Square, 296. 
 
 C ,ebrook Cottage, Islington, 190, 
 284. 
 
 Colebrook Row, Islington, 54, 88, 
 190, 191. 
 
 Colebrook Terrace, Islington, 190. 
 
 College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn 
 Fields, 74. 
 
 College Street, Camden Town, 82. 
 
 College Street, Westminster, 70, 114, 
 179. 
 
 Combe-Florey, 280. 
 
 Compton Road, Islington, 122. 
 
 Compton Street, Clerkenwell, 75. 
 
 Compton Street, Soho, 123, 167. 
 
 Conduit, Cheapside, 77. 
 
 Conduit Street, Regent Street, 21, 
 81, 152. 
 
 Coney Court, Gray's Inn, 12. 
 
 Connanght Square, 194. 
 
 Conservative Club, 114, 204. 
 Consolidated Bank, Threadneedle 
 
 Street, 222. 
 
 Copt Hall, Twickenham, 105. 
 Cornhill, 77, 127-128, 200, 239, 245, 
 
 300. 
 Cousin Lane, Upper Thames Street, 
 
 239. 
 Covent Garden, v, 51, 95, 128, 154, 
 
 155, 190, 219, 226, 237, 238, 239, 
 
 242, 273, 283, 321. 
 Covent Garden Theatre, 51, 62, 226, 
 
 322. 
 Coventry Street, Haymarket, 242, 
 
 295. 
 
 Cowley House, Chertsey, 65. 
 Cowper's Court, Birchin Lane, 45. 
 Cox's Hotel, Jerinyn Street, 30. 
 Cragg's Court, Charing Cross, 307. 
 Cranbouru Street, Leicester Square, 
 
 61. 
 
 Crane Court, Fleet Street, 229. 
 Craven Cottage, Fulham, 24. 
 Craven Street, Strand, 10, 111, 278. 
 Crockford's Club House, 142. 
 Cromwell House, Highgate Hill, 207. 
 Cromwell Lane, Brompton, 146. 
 Cromwell Lodge, Parson's Green, 255. 
 Cromwell Road, South Kensington, 
 
 112. 
 Crooked Billet Tavern, Wimbledon, 
 
 309. 
 Crosby Hall, Bishopsgate Street, 223, 
 
 268, 269, 276. 
 
 Crosby Place, 223, 268, 269, 276. 
 Cross Court, Bow Street, Covent Gar- 
 den, 118, 155. 
 Cross Keys Inn, St. John Street, 
 
 Clerkenwell, 260. 
 Crown and Anchor Tavern, Arundel 
 
 Street, Strand, 155, 170, 258, 280 
 Crown and Horse-Shoes, Enfield, 191. 
 Crown Court, Chancery Lane, 313. 
 Crown Office Row, Temple, 182, 183, 
 
 303. 
 Crown Tavern, Hercules' Pillars 
 
 Alley, 237. 
 
 Crown Tavern, King Street, Cheap- 
 side, 260.
 
 344 
 
 INDEX OF PLACES. 
 
 Crown Taveru, King Street, West- 
 minster, 244. 
 
 Crown Tavern, Vinegar Yard, 274. 
 
 Crutched Friars, Mark Lane, 234, 
 235. 
 
 Cursitor Street, 173, 274. 
 
 Curtain Court, Shoreditch. 172. 
 
 Curtain Theatre (Green Curtain), 
 Shoreditch, 172, 173, 204. 
 
 Curzoii Street, Mayfair, 89, 280. 
 
 Cut-throat Lane, Stoke Xewington, 
 77. 
 
 Czar Street, Evelyn Street, Deptford, 
 101. 
 
 DALSTON, 184. 
 
 Danish Church, Wellclose Square, 
 54. 
 
 Dartmouth Street, Westminster, 283- 
 284. 
 
 Dawley Court, Harrington, Middle- 
 sex,^. 
 
 Deacon Street, Walworth Road, 284. 
 
 Deadman's Place, South wark, 70, 
 266. 
 
 Dean Street, Borough, 178, 179. 
 
 Dean Street, Soho, 61, 78, 124, 125, 
 134. 
 
 Dean's Yard, Westminster, 27, 114. 
 
 De Foe Street, Stoke Newington, 
 77. 
 
 Delahay Street, Westminster, 246. 
 
 Denman Street, Southwark, 10. 
 
 Deptford, 100, 101, 204-205. 
 
 Deptford Dockyard, 205. 
 
 Deptford Green, 205. 
 
 Derby Street, Westminster, 81. 
 
 Devereux Court, Strand, 7, 10, 124, 
 
 168, 229, 247, 285. 291. 
 
 Devil Tavern, Fleet Street, 6, 7, 124, 
 
 169, 175, 238, 290, 300. 
 Devonshire Club, 142. 
 Devonshire House, Piccadilly, 240, 
 
 310. 
 Devonshire Terrace, Regent's Park. 
 
 83. 
 Dick's Coffee House, Fleet Street, 8, 
 
 67. 290. 
 Dilettanti Society, 62. 
 
 Dock Street, Royal Mint Street, 54. 
 Dolphin Tavern, Seething Lane, 
 
 236. 
 Don Saltero's, Chelsea, 112, 282, 
 
 291. 
 
 Dorant's Hotel, Jermyn Street, 30. 
 Dorset Buildings, Salisbury Square, 
 
 229. 
 Dorset Court, Salisbury Square, 197- 
 
 198. 
 
 Dorset Court, Cannon Row, West- 
 minster, 197. 
 
 Dorset Garden Theatre, 229. 
 Dorset Street, Baker Street, 23. 
 Dorset Street, Salisbury Square, 229. 
 Doughty Street, Mecklenburgh 
 
 Square, 82, 83, 278-279. 
 Dover Street, Piccadilly, 101, 271. 
 Dove's Taveru, Upper Mall, Ham- 
 mersmith, 227, 308. 
 Downing Street, 21, 71, 75, 280, 
 
 311. 
 Downshire Hill, Hampstead, 181, 
 
 182. 
 
 Down Street, Piccadilly, 133. 
 Drapers' Garden, 130,200. 
 Drapers' Hall, 200. 
 Drummond's Bank, 246. 
 Drury Lane, 75, 152, 189, 274. 
 Drury Lane Theatre, 52, 103, 113, 
 
 239". 
 
 Dryden Press, viii, 92. 
 Duke of York's Tavern, Shire Lane,8. 
 Duke's Head Tavern, Parson's 
 
 Green, 255. 
 Duke's Place, Bury Street, St. Mary 
 
 Axe, 317. 
 
 Duke Street, City, 47. 214. 
 Duke Street. Lincoln's Inn Fields, 
 
 110, 111, 196. 
 Duke Street, St. James's Street, 
 
 28. 37, 205, 220, 263. 
 Duke Street, Strand. 12. 
 Duke Street, Westminster, 246, 247. 
 Duke's Theatre, Lincoln's Inn 
 
 Fields. 74, 75, 195. 
 Dulwich, 130. 
 Dulwich College, 130. 
 Durham House, 249.
 
 INDEX OF PLACES. 
 
 BALING, 106, 200, 309. 
 Earl's Court Road, 150. 
 Earl's Terrace, Kensington Road, 
 
 150. 
 
 East Barnet, 194. 
 Eastcheap, 125, 270, 324. 
 East Heath Road, Hampstead, 9. 
 East India House, 185, 186. 
 East India Service Club, 110. 
 Eaton Street, Pimlico, 37. 
 Eccentric Club, 274. 
 Eccleston Street, Pimlico, 72, 130. 
 Edgeware Road, viii, 122, 146. 
 Edinburgh, 287. 
 
 Edith Villas, Hammersmith, 254. 
 Edmonton, 144, 178, 192, 193. 
 Edmonton Church, 192, 193. 
 Edwardes Square, Kensington, 58, 
 
 148. 
 
 Edward Street, Soho, 275. 
 Eldon Chambers, 7, 229. 
 Elia Cottage, Colebrook Row, Isling- 
 ton, 191. 
 Elm Tree Road, St. John's Wood, 
 
 138. 
 
 Emerson Street, Southwark, 266. 
 Enfield, 89, 178, 191, 192, 193, 205. 
 Essex Court, Middle Temple, 100, 
 
 244. 
 
 Essex Court, Strand, 7. 
 Essex Hall, Higham Hill, Waltham- 
 
 stow, 88-89. 
 
 Essex Head Tavern, 168. 
 Essex House, Essex Street, Strand, 
 
 197, 285. 
 
 Essex Road, Islington, 250. 
 Essex Street, Strand, 28, 168, 197, 
 
 227, 272,285, 291. 
 Eton, 309. 
 Eton College, 128. 
 Euston Road, viii, 146. 
 Euston Square, 321. 
 Evelyn Street, Deptford, 101. 
 Eversham Buildings, Somers Town, 
 
 116. 
 
 Exeter Change, 112, 113. 
 Exeter House, Essex Street, Strand, 
 
 197, 238, 285. 
 Exeter Street, Strand, 106, 156. 
 
 FALCON DOCK, Bankside, 176, 268, 
 
 270. 
 Falcon Inn, Bankside, 25, 176, 268, 
 
 270. 
 
 Falcon Wharf, Bankside, 176, 270. 
 Farrar's Buildings, Inner Temple, 21. 
 Farringdon Market, 44. 
 Farringdon Street, 301, 323. 
 Feathers Tavern, 187. 
 Featherstone Buildings, Holborn, 
 
 273. 
 
 Fenchurch Street, 235, 236, 239. 
 Fetter Lane, 17, 92, 93, 183, 230, 
 
 238. 
 
 Finch Lane, Cornhill, 16. 
 Finchley, 248. 
 Finchley Road, 138. 
 Finsbury Circus, 78, 177, 178, 196. 
 Finsbury Pavement, 78, 196. 
 Fischer's Hotel (Stevens's), New 
 
 Bond Street, 31. 
 Fish Street, City, 118. 
 Fish Street Hill, 239. 
 Fleece Tavern, Covent Garden, 237. 
 Fleet Lane, 323. 
 Fleet Market, 119. 
 Fleet Prison, 232, 323. 
 Fleet River, 301. 
 Fleet Street, v, ix. 6, 8, 17, 27. 46, 
 
 64, 67, 91. 92, 118, 119, 120, 124, 
 
 164, 165, 168, 169, 170, 175, 183, 
 
 197, 199, 211, 236, 237, 238, 253, 
 
 255, 275, 276, 290, 300, 313, 314. 
 Fleur-de-lys Court, Fetter Lane, 93. 
 Fluyder Street, Westminster, 75, 
 
 223. 
 
 Foley Place, Regent Street, 37. 
 Fordhook, 106. 
 Fore Street, Cripplegate, 108. 
 Fore Street, Edmonton, 192. 
 Fortis Green, 130. 
 Foster Lane, Cheapside, 136. 
 Foundling Hospital, 279, 303. 
 Foundry, Moorfields, 318. 
 Fountain Court, Middle Temple, 121. 
 Fountain Court, Strand, 170, 290. 
 Fountaine Tavern, Strand, 170, 290, 
 
 300. 
 Fox Court, Holborn, 259, 260.
 
 346 
 
 INDEX OF PLACES. 
 
 Francis Street, Gower Street, 79. 
 Freeman's Court, Cornhill, 76. 
 Friday Street, Cheapside, 176. 270. 
 Frith "Street, Soho, 133-134, 149, 217. 
 Frognal, Hampstead, 157. 
 Fulham, 1, 2, 3, 10, 13, 23, 24, 131, 
 
 141, 194, 254, 255. 
 Fulham Road, 131, 153, 197, 206, 221, 
 
 298. 
 Fuhvood's Rents, Holborn, 8, 315- 
 
 316. 
 Furnival's Inn, 74, 82, 223. 
 
 GAD'S HILL, 84, 86. 
 
 Garden Court, Middle Temple, 121. 
 
 Garden House Tower, 251. 
 
 Garlickhithe, 45. 
 
 Garraway's Coffee House, 300. 
 
 Garrick Club, 200, 278, 306-307. 
 
 Garrick Street, Covent Garden, 29, 
 
 96, 278, 307. 
 
 Gate House, Highgate, 59. 
 Gate House, Westminster, 27, 198. 
 
 236, 251, 261. 
 Gate Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, 
 
 187. 
 
 General Post Office, 97. 
 George Court, Strand, 12. 
 George's Row, Hyde Park, 149. 
 George Street, Hanover Square, 219. 
 George Street, Manchester Square, 
 
 102. 
 
 George Street, Portland Square, 220. 
 George Tavern, Church Street, Ken- 
 sington, 228. 
 
 George Tavern, Pall Mall, 300. 
 George Tavern, Strand, 226, 227, 272. 
 Gerard Street, Soho, x, 28, 93, 94, 
 
 167, 222. 
 
 Germain Street (see Jermyn Street). 
 Gilpin Grove, Edmonton, 192. 
 Giltspur Street, 144. 
 Girdlers' Hall, Basinghall Street, 316. 
 Globe Alley, Bankside, 266. 
 Globe Tavern, Bankside, 266. 
 Globe Tavern, Fleet Street, 124, 300. 
 Globe Theatre, Bankside, 19, 174, 
 
 266, 267, 268, 269. 
 Gloucester Place, Enfield, 191. 
 
 Gloucester Place, Marylebone Road, 
 
 146. 
 
 Gloucester Row, Shoreditch, 172. 
 Gloucester Street, Shoreditch, 172. 
 Goat Tavern, Charing Cross, 238. 
 Golden Eagle Tavern, New Street, 
 
 238. 
 ! Golden Fleece Tavern, Edmonton, 
 
 192. 
 
 Golden Hart Tavern, Greenwich, 157. 
 I Golden Lion Tavern, Charing Cross, 
 
 238. 
 Golder's Hill, North End, Fulham, 
 
 10. 
 
 ' Goldsmith House, Peckham, 119. 
 : Gordon's Hotel, Albemarle Street, 
 
 32. 
 
 1 Gore House, Kensington, 195, 220. 
 I Gothic House, Wimbledon Common, 
 
 207. 
 i Gough Square, Fleet Street, 89, 141, 
 
 158. 
 
 Gower Place, Euston Square, 117. 
 Gower Street. Bedford Square, 79, 80, 
 
 151. 
 
 Grace Church Street, City, 125. 
 Grafton Street, New Bond Street, 32, 
 
 167. 
 
 Grammar School, Highgate, 59, 60. 
 Granby Street, Hampstead Road, 82. 
 Grand Junction Canal, 242. 
 Grange, North End, Hammersmith, 
 
 254. 
 
 Gratis Club, 155. 
 Gravel Lane, Southwark, 25. 
 Gravel Pits, Kensington, 299. 
 Gray's Inn, 12, 28, 121, 159, 202, 226, 
 
 275, 276, 284, 315, 316. 
 i Gray's Inn Gardens, 88. 
 i Gray's Inn Lane, 275, 281. 
 Gray's Inn Road, 88, 260. 
 Gray's Inn Square, 12, 13. 
 Great Bath Street, Coldbath Square, 
 
 296. 
 
 Great Bell Alley, Coleman Street, 20. 
 Great Bell Yard, Coleman Street, 20. 
 I Great Chapel Street, Soho, 61. 
 Great Cheyne Row, Chelsea, viii, 38, 
 147.
 
 INDEX OF PLACES. 
 
 347 
 
 Great College Street, Westminster, 
 
 70, 71, 179. 
 
 Great Coram Street, 303. 
 Great George Street, Westminster, 
 
 34, 202, 274. 
 Great Newport Street, Long Acre, 
 
 309. 
 
 Great Ormond Street, 201. 
 Great Peter Street, Westminster, 137. 
 Great Portland Street, Oxford Street, 
 
 21, 320. 
 Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn 
 
 Fields, 61, 111, 217, 273. 
 Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury 
 
 Square, 131, 140, 271. 
 Great Sanctuary, Westminster, 239. 
 Great Scotland Yard, 307. 
 Great Smith Street, Westminster, 
 
 179. 
 
 Great Tower Hill, 231. 
 Great Tower Street, 234. 
 Great Turnstile, Holborn, 213, 273. 
 Great Wild Street, Drnry Lane, 75, 
 
 111. 
 
 Great Winchester Street, City, 18. 
 Great Windmill Street, Piccadilly, 
 
 14, 295. 
 Grecian Chambers, Devereux Court, 
 
 Strnnd, 7. 
 Grecian Coffee House, Devereux 
 
 Court, Strand, 7, 10, 124. 168, 229, 
 
 291. 
 Greek Street, Soho, 78, 123, 152, 
 
 167. 
 Green Arbor Court, Old Bailey, 119- 
 
 120. 
 Green Curtain Theatre (see Curtain 
 
 Theatre). 
 
 Green Street, Grosvenor Square, 280. 
 Greenwich, 157. 
 Gresham College, Gresham Street, 
 
 235. 
 Gresham College, Old Broad Street, 
 
 235. 
 Gresham House, Old Broad Street, 
 
 235. 
 
 Gresham Street, 2-35, 236. 
 Grey Friars Monastery, Newgate 
 
 Street, 57. 
 
 Grocers' Hall, 277. 
 
 Grocers' Hall Court, Poultry, 137, 
 
 277. 
 Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley 
 
 Street, 41, 50, 219. 
 Grosvenor Place, Pimlico, 37. 
 Grosvenor Square, 24. 
 Grove End Eoad, St. John's Wood, 
 
 248. 
 
 Grove, Highgate, 58-59. 
 Grove Terrace, Hammersmith, 254. 
 Grub Street, St. Giles's, 78, 108. 
 Guildford Street, Chertsey, 65. 
 Guildhall, 265. 
 
 Gunpowder Alley, Shoe Lane, 199. 
 Guy's Hospital, 81. 
 
 HACKNEY, 77, 86. 
 
 Hackney Church, 77. 
 
 Half Moon Passage, Aldersgate 
 
 Street, 64, 176, 323. 
 Half Moon Street, Piccadilly, 21, 73, 
 
 133. 
 Half Moon Tavern, Aldersgate Street, 
 
 64, 176, 323. 
 
 Hall Court, Middle Temple, 100. 
 Hamilton Place, Hyde Park Corner, 
 
 261. 
 Hammersmith, 8, 148-149, 206, 226 
 
 227, 254, 308. 
 
 Hammersmith Bridge, 227, 308. 
 Hammersmith Road, 58, 194, 211, 
 
 254. 
 
 Hammersmith Terrace, 226. 
 Hampstead, 112, 128, 157, 179, 180, 
 
 181, 289. 
 
 Hampstead Church, 15. 
 Hampstead Heath, 9, 68, 148, 179, 
 
 180, 242, 271, 
 Hampstead Hill. 12. 
 Hampstead Lane, Highgate, 59. 
 Hampstead Road, 82. 
 Hampton Court, 289. 
 Hampton Court Green, 102-103. 
 Hand Court, Holborn, 187. 
 Hand-in-Hand Tavern, Wimbledon, 
 
 309. 
 
 Hanover Court. Long Acre, 302. 
 Hanover Gate, Regent's Park, 202.
 
 348 
 
 INDEX OF PLACES. 
 
 Hanover Square, 41, 99, 219. 
 
 Hanwell, 151. 
 
 Harcourt Buildings, Middle Temple 
 
 Lane, 183. 
 
 Hare Court, Temple, 8, 189. 
 Hurley Street, Cavendish Square, 
 
 109, 248. 
 
 Harp Alley, Shoe Lane, 314. 
 Harrington, Middlesex, 242. 
 Harrington Road, South Kensington, 
 
 146. 
 Harris Place, Sloane Street, 194, 
 
 216, 217, 271. 
 
 Harrow Tavern, Fleet Street, 313. 
 Hartshorne Lane (Northumberland 
 
 Street, Strand), 171-172. 
 Hart Street, Bloomsbury Square, 88. 
 Hart Street, Covent Garden, 302. 
 Hart Street, Crutched Friars, 233, 
 
 234, 235, 238. 
 Hastings Street, Burton Crescent, 
 
 271. 
 
 Hatton Garden, 322. 
 Haycock's Ordinary, 208. 
 Hayes Station, 242. 
 Haymarket. 1, 2, 9, 18, 104, 128, 274. 
 Haymarket Theatre, 104. 
 Hay's Lane, Tooley Street, South- 
 
 wark, 179. 
 Hayward's Place, St. John's Gate, 
 
 Clerkenwell, 75. 
 Heath Road, Twickenham, 219. 
 Heaven Tavern, Lindsay Lane, 238. 
 Hellespont, 56. 
 
 Hell Tavern, Westminster, 238. 
 Hendon Road, Hampstead Heath, C8. 
 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, 
 
 222, 273. 
 Henry VII. 's ChapeJ, Westminster 
 
 Abbey, 5-6, 47. 
 Hercules' Pillars Alley, Fleet Street, 
 
 237. 
 Hercules' Pillars Tavern, Hyde Park, 
 
 273, 291. 
 Hertford Street, Mayfair, 23, 273, 
 
 279. 
 
 Hertingfordbury, 9. 
 Higham Hill, Walthamstow, 89. 
 Highgate, 13, 58-59, 60, 128, 148. 
 
 Highgate Cemetery, 99, 103, 130. 
 Highgate Churchyard, 59-60. 
 Highgate Grammar School, 258. 
 Highgate Hill, 13, 58, 207. 
 High Holborn, 316. 
 High Laver, Essex, 198. 
 High Road, Tottenham, 314. 
 High Street, Borough, 10, 17, 48, 80. 
 
 163, 320. 
 
 High Street, Clapham, 200. 
 High Street, Hampstead, 16. 
 High Street, Islington, 70, 126. 
 High Street, Kensington, 62, 150, 
 
 305. 
 
 High Street, Marylebone, 12, 30, 8li. 
 High Street, Putney, 149. 
 Hill Street, Berkeley Square, 312. 
 Hill, The, Hampstead Heath, 68. 
 Holborn, 44, 116-117, 133, 183, 187, 
 
 212, 213, 214, 260, 273, 313. 
 Holborn Bridge, 26. 
 Holborn Hill, 301. 
 Holborn Viaduct, 26, 117, 120, 131, 
 
 301. 
 
 Holland Arms Inn, Kensington, 4. 
 Holland House, 1, 3, 4, 68, 202, 220, 
 
 258, 275, 279, 299. 
 Holland Lane, 4. 
 Holland Park, 150. 
 Holland Street, Southwark, 270. 
 Holies Street, Cavendish Square, 30. 
 Holly Bush Inn, Hampstead, 14. 
 Holly Hill, Hampstead, 14. 
 Holly Lodge, Campden Hill, 202- 
 
 203. 
 Holy Trinity Church, Little Queen 
 
 Street, Holborn, 187. 
 Holywell Lane, Shoreditch, 172, 204. 
 Holywell Street, Strand, 196. 
 Hoo'k and Eye Club, 154. 
 Hope Theatre, Bankside, 268. 
 Hornsey Churchyard, 258. 
 Horse and Groom Tavern, Edmonton, 
 
 192. 
 
 Horsemonger Lane, 145, 146. 
 Horsemonger Lane Gaol, 145-146. 
 Hotels (see Taverns). 
 Houndsditch, 47. 
 House of Commons, 27, 76, 207, 238.
 
 INDEX OF PLACES. 
 
 349 
 
 House of Lords, 31. 
 
 Houses of Parliament, 71, 118. 
 
 Howard Street, Strand, 63. 
 
 Hoxton Fields, Shoreditch, 173. 
 
 Hoxton Square, Shoreditch, 173. 
 
 Hull, 207. 
 
 Hummums Hotel, Covent Garden, 
 
 68, 69. 
 
 Hungerford Market, Strand, 80-81. 
 Hungerford Stairs, Strand, 80-81. 
 Huntington, 232, 233. 
 Hutton Street, Salisbury Square, 
 
 229. 
 
 Hyde Park, 149, 273, 293, 303. 
 Hyde Park Corner, 240, 242, 261, 309. 
 Hyde Park Place, 85. 
 
 INNER TEMPLE, 19, 21, 46, 62, 67, 
 
 309. 
 
 Inner Temple Gateway, 27, 160, 275. 
 Inner Temple Lane, 21, 159, 160, 
 
 161, 189. 
 
 Inns (see Taverns). 
 Institution of Civil Engineers, Great 
 
 George Street, Westminster, 34. 
 Ireland Yard, Doctors' Commons, 265, 
 
 266. 
 
 Ironmongers' Lane, 179. 
 Islington, 53, 54, 60, 69-70, 86-87. 
 
 122, 126, 249, 308. 
 Islington Green, 69. 
 Ivy Lane, Newgate Street, 44, 166, 
 
 167, 187. 
 Ivy Lane Club, 166, 169. 
 
 JACK'S COFFEE HOUSE (Walker's 
 
 Hotel), 124-125. 
 Jacob's Wells Mews, George Street, 
 
 Manchester Square, 102. 
 James Street, York Street, Bucking- 
 ham Gate, 115. 
 
 Jeffreys Street, Camden Town, 82. 
 Jermyn Street, St. James's Street, 
 
 18, 104, 128, 227, 263, 272, 274, 
 
 288. 
 Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster 
 
 Abbey, 5, 64, 229. 
 Jerusalem Tavern, St. John's Gate, 
 
 157. 
 
 Jewin Street, Cripplegate, 214. 
 
 Jewry Street, City, 47. 
 
 Johnson's Buildings, Inner Temple, 
 
 21, 159, 189. 
 Johnson's Court, Fleet Street, 158, 
 
 162. 163. 
 
 John Street, Bedford Kow, 87. 
 John Street, Hampstead, 180, 181, 
 
 182. 
 John Street, Mecklenburgh Square, 
 
 82-83. 
 
 John Street, Pall Mall, 262. 
 Joiner Street, Southwark, 10. 
 Jolly Farmer Tavern, Church Street, 
 
 Edmonton, 192. 
 Jump Tavern, 143. 
 
 KEATS'S BENCH, Well Walk, Hauip- 
 stead, 180. 
 
 Keats's Corner, Well Koad, Hamp- 
 stead, 180. 
 
 Keats's Cottage, John Street, Hamp- 
 stead, 182. 
 
 Keats's Villa, Well Road, Hamp- 
 stead, 180. 
 
 Kensal Green Cemetery, 72, 139, 149, 
 152, 280, 305. 
 
 Kensington, 1, 3, 4, 9, 62, 63, 111, 
 202, 228, 229, 299, 303, 304, 305. 
 
 Kensington Church (see St. Mary 
 the Virgin). 
 
 Kensington College, 228. 
 
 Kensington Gore. 195. 
 
 Kensington House, 150. 
 
 Kensington Palace, 299. 
 
 Kensington Palace Gardens, 305, 
 306. 
 
 Kensington Road, 3, 4, 150, 275. 
 
 Kensington Square, 1, 3, 289. 
 
 Kentish Town, 179. 
 
 Kerion Lane, City, 45. 
 
 Kew Foot Lane, Richmond, 308. 
 
 Kcw Green, 38. 
 
 Kilburn Priory, St. John's Wood, 
 154. 
 
 King of Clubs, 170, 258, 280. 
 
 King's Arms Tavern, Pall Mall, 9. 
 
 King's Bench Prison, Southwark, 17, 
 141.
 
 350 
 
 INDEX OF PLACES. 
 
 King's Bench Walk, Inner Temple, 
 
 62, 188. 
 
 King's Head Club, 166-167. 
 King's Head Tavern, Fleet Street, 
 
 238. 
 
 King's Head Tavern, Islington, 239. 
 King's Head Tavern, Ivy Lane, 107. 
 King's Head Tavern, Pall Mall, 290. 
 King's Head Tavern, Tower Street, 
 
 239. 
 
 King's Place, Pall Mall, 11. 
 King's Road, Camden Town, 82. 
 King's Road, Fulham, 3. 
 King's Road ( Theobald's Road), 
 
 Bedford Row, 87, 88. 
 King's Square (Soho Square), 61, 101. 
 King's Square Court, Soho, 61. 
 Kingston, 207. 
 Kingston-upou-Hull, 208. 
 Kingston-on-Thames, 113. 
 King Street, Cheapside, 56, 260. 
 King Street, Covent Garden, 57, 96, 
 
 156, 258, 278, 307. 
 
 King Street, Grosveuor Square, 90. 
 King Street, St. James's Street, 11, 
 
 305. 
 King Street, Westminster, 75, 233, 
 
 239, 285, 286, 297, 300. 
 King William Street, City, 125. 
 King William Street, Strand, 282. 
 Kit Kat Club, 8, 64, 218, 289, 290. 
 Knightsbridge, 239. 
 
 LADY CHAPEL, Westminster Abbey, 
 
 47. 
 Lalla Rookh Cottage, Muswell Hill, 
 
 221. 
 
 Lamb's Cottage, Edmonton, 192. 
 Lancaster Court, Strand, 244. 
 Langham, Norfolk, 207. 
 Langham Street, Marylebone, 21, 
 
 37. 
 Lansdowne House, Berkeley Square, 
 
 220. 
 
 Lant Street, Borough, 81. 
 Lauderdale House, Highgate Hill, 
 
 207, 208. 
 Lawn Bank, John Street, Hamp- 
 
 stead, 180, 181, 182. 
 
 Lawn Cottage, John Street, Hamp- 
 
 stead, 181. 
 Lawrence Manor House, Chelsea, 
 
 281. 
 
 Lawrence Street, Chelsea, 281. 
 Leadenhall Market, 185. 
 Leg Tavern, King Street, Westmin- 
 ster, 236. 
 
 Leicester Court, Leicester Fields, 149. 
 Leicester Fields (see Leicester 
 
 Square). 
 Leicester House, Leicester Fields, 
 
 93, 285. 
 Leicester Square, 61, 137, 149, 288, 
 
 297, 299. 
 
 Leonard Place, Kensington, 150. 
 Lewis Place, Great Ormond Street, 
 
 201. 
 Lewis Place, Hammersmith Road, 
 
 Fulham, 194. 
 Lichfield, 1. 
 
 Lime Grove, Putney Hill, 113. 
 Lincoln's Inn, 61, 62, 223, 226, 232, 
 
 320. 
 Lincoln's Inn Fields, 8, 37, 54, 74, 
 
 84, 110, 195, 198, 217, 238. 
 Lincoln's Inn Gateway, 171, 172, 
 
 173. 
 
 Lindsay Lane, Westminster, 238. 
 Lion and Sun Hotel. Highgate, 59. 
 Lisbon, Spain, 106. 
 Lisle Street, Leicester Square, 87, 
 
 143, 285. 
 
 Litchfield Street, Soho, 309. 
 Literary Club (fee The Club). 
 Little Britain, 110, 111, 144, 155. 
 Little College Street, Camden Town, 
 
 82. 
 
 Little Dean's Yard, Westminster, 51. 
 Little Newport Street, Long Acre, 93. 
 Little Queen Street, Holborn, 186, 
 
 187. 
 
 Little Ryder Street. 297. 
 Little Tower Street, 307. 
 Little Turnstile, Holborn, 213. 
 Liverpool Road, 188. 
 Lloyd's, Abchurch Lane, 290. 
 Load of Hay Tavern, Haverstock 
 
 Hill, 289, 290.
 
 INDEX OF PLACES. 
 
 351 
 
 Lockitt's Ordinary, Charing Cross, 
 
 246. 
 Lombard Street, 152, 197, 239, 240, 
 
 290, 300. 
 London Bridge, 25, 199, 209, 225, 
 
 238, 266, 295. 
 London Institution, Finsbury Circus, 
 
 78, 245. 
 
 London Wall, 177, 195, 196, 200, 231. 
 Long Acre, viii, x, 29, 61, 92, 96, 
 
 247, 301, 302. 
 Long's Hotel, New Bond Street, 32, 
 
 34, 263. 
 Lordship's Lane (or Road), Stoke 
 
 Newington, 77. 
 Lothbury, 138. 
 LovelPs Court, Paternoster Row, 253, 
 
 254. 
 Lower Belgrave Place (Buckingham 
 
 Palace Road), 71-72. 
 Lower Grosvenor Street, New Bond 
 
 Street, 73, 273. 
 
 Lower Heath Road, Hampstead, 180. 
 Lower Richmond Road, 154. 
 Lower Rosoman Street, Clerkenwell, 
 
 318. 
 
 Lower Series Place, Fleet Street, 8. 
 Luke Street, Westminster, 71. 
 Lyceum Theatre, 113. 
 
 MAIDA VALE, 154. 
 
 Maid Lane, Bankside, 266. 
 
 Maidenhead Court, St. Martin's-le- 
 
 Grand, 212. 
 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, 207, 
 
 245. 
 Maiden Lane, Upper Thames Street, 
 
 45. 
 
 Mall, The, 41, 213. 
 Manchester Square, 102, 114. 
 Manor House, Chiswick, 241. 
 Mansion House, City, 275. 
 Marble Arch, viii, 86, 293. 
 Marbledown Place, Burton Crescent, 
 
 271. 
 Margaret Street, Cavendish Square, 
 
 36. 
 
 Market Lane, Pall Mall, 298. 
 Mark Lane, City, 316. 
 
 Marshalsea Place, South wark, 80. 
 Marshalsea Prison, 79-80, 81, 82, 320. 
 Marylebone Church, 146. 
 Marylebone High Street, 12. 
 Marylebone Lane, 114. 
 Marylebone Road, viii, 12, 30, 83, 146. 
 Marylebone Street, 21. 
 Mawson Lane, Chiswick, 241. 
 Mawson Row, Chiswick, 241. 
 Maynard Street, Muswell Hill, 221. 
 May's Buildings, St. Martin's Lane, 
 
 274. 
 
 Mecklenburgh Square, 82. 
 Mercers' Hall, 179. 
 Merchant Taylors' School, 1, 275, 285. 
 Mermaid Tavern, Cheapside, 20, 175- 
 
 176, 270. 
 Metropolitan Meat Market, Charter 
 
 House Street, 19. 
 Michael's Grove, Brompton Road, 
 
 153. 
 
 Middle Heath Road, Hampstead, 180. 
 Middle Scotland Yard, 37. 
 Middlesex Hospital, Mortimer Street, 
 
 140, 199. 
 Middle Temple, 27, 63, 67, 75, 78, 
 
 100, 104, 121, 126, 220, 249, 258, 
 
 264, 273, 284. 322. 
 Middle Temple Gate, 27. 
 Middle Temple Hall, 269. 
 Middleton Buildings, Regent Street, 
 
 37. 
 Milbourne House, Barnes Common, 
 
 106. 
 
 Mile End, 250. 
 Milk Street, Cheapside, 17, 170, 222, 
 
 236. 
 
 Mill Walk, Battersea, 242. 
 Milton Street, Cripplegate, 78, 108. 
 Mincing Lane, 235. 
 Miuories, 47, 276, 317. 
 Missolonghi, Greece, 34. 
 Mitford Lane, Strand, 170, 258. 
 Mitre Chambers, Fenchiirch Street, 
 
 236. 
 
 Mitre Court Buildings, Temple, 188. 
 Mitre Court, Fleet Street, 169. 
 Mitre Court, Wood Street, Cheapside, 
 
 236.
 
 352 
 
 INDEX OF PLACES. 
 
 Mitre Tavern, Fenchurch Street, 236. 
 
 Mitre Tavern, Fleet Street, 168, 169, 
 236. 
 
 Mitre Tavern, St. James's Market, 
 103-104. 
 
 Mitre Tavern, Wood Street, Cheap- 
 side, 236. 
 
 Monmouth House, Lawrence Street, 
 Chelsea, 281. 
 
 Montague Square, 23. 
 
 Monument Yard, City, 118. 
 
 Moorfields, 195, 196/315, 318. 
 
 Mortimer Street, Cavendish Square, 
 140, 151, 199. 
 
 Mortlake, 9. 
 
 Mount Street, Berkeley Square, 71. 
 
 Mulberry Club, 118. 
 
 Mulberry Gardens, 95, 101-102. 
 
 Museum Club, 155. 
 
 Muswell Hill, 221. 
 
 Muswell Hill Road, 221. 
 
 NAG'S HEAD TAVERN, High Street, 
 
 Borough, 320. 
 National Deposit Bank, Russell 
 
 Street, Covent Garden, 55. 
 National Portrait Gallery, 9, 146. 
 Navy Office, Seething Lane, 233- 
 
 234. 
 
 Neville Court, Fetter Lane, 17. 
 New Bond Street, 31, 33, 167, 263. 
 New Buildings, Chiswick, 241. 
 Newcomen Street, Southwark, 320. 
 New Court, Temple, 7. 
 New Court, Throgmorton Street, 130. 
 New Finchley Road, 139. 
 New Fish Street, City, 239. 
 Newgate Prison, 232, 261, 320. 
 Newgate Street, 18, 26, 57, 97, 117, 
 
 146, 167, 168, 187, 285. 
 Newington Causewaj', 146. 
 Newington Green, 16, 76, 256, 316. 
 New Inn, Wych Street, 222. 
 New Law Courts, 170, 195, 196, 
 
 198. 
 
 New Oxford Street, viii. 
 New Palace Yard, 117-118, 208, 238. 
 New Park Street, Southwark, 266. 
 Newport Market, 308. 
 
 Newport Street, St. Martin's Lane, 
 
 61, 242, 309. 
 New Queen Street, Upper Thames 
 
 Street, 176. 
 New River, 190, 191. 
 New Road (Marylebone Road), viii, 
 
 146. 
 
 New Square, Lincoln's Inn, 226. 
 Newstead Abbe}', 34. 
 New Street, Covent Garden, 156. 
 Newton House, Campden Hill, 228. 
 New Wells, Clerkenwell, 318. 
 Nightingale Lane, Highgate, 58. 
 Norfolk Street, Strand, 58, 217, 232. 
 North Bank, St. John's Wood, 98-99. 
 North End, Fulham, 10, 68, 254, 255. 
 North End Road, 8. 
 North Gower Street, Bedford Square, 
 
 79, 80. 
 
 North Road, Highgate, 59. 
 Northumberland Street, Marylebone, 
 
 78. 
 Northumberland Street, Strand, 152, 
 
 155, 172. 
 
 Nottingham Place, Marylebone, 23. 
 Netting Hill, 299. 
 
 OCTOBER CLUB, 243, 244, 300. 
 
 Old Bailey, 120, 261, 323. 
 
 Old Baptist Head Tavern, 126, 170. 
 
 Old Bond Street, 21, 292, 293. 
 
 Old Broad Street, 18, 235, 240, 317, 
 318. 
 
 Old Broinpton Road, 146. 
 
 Old Burlington Street, 10, 112. 
 
 Old Cavendish Street, Oxford Street, 
 37. 
 
 Old Fish Street, City, 239. 
 
 Old Jewry, 89, 245." 
 
 Old Kensington Square (see Ken- 
 sington Square). 
 
 Old Palace Yard, 251. 
 
 Old Red Lion Inn, 126, 170, 308. 
 
 Old St. Pancras Road, 118, 271. 
 
 One Tun Tavern, St. James's Market, 
 274. 
 
 Onslow Square, 303-304. 
 
 Orange Chapel, St. Martin's Street, 
 227.
 
 INDEX OF PLACES. 
 
 353 
 
 Orange Street, Leicester Square, 89, 
 
 137. 
 
 OrbelPs Buildings, Kensington, 228. 
 Orchard Street, Portman Square, 
 
 273, 279. 
 
 Orchard Street, Westminster, 137. 
 Our Club, 154. 
 
 Oxendon Street, Haymarket, 18. 
 Oxford, 2, 9, 60, 114, 195, 197, 198, 
 
 232, 234, 287, 318. 
 Oxford Circus, 18. 
 Oxford Street, viii, 18, 78, 140, 293. 
 Ozinda's Coffee House, 300. 
 
 PADDLNGTON, 147. 
 
 Palace Chambers, St. James's Street, 
 
 303. 
 
 Palace Gardens, Kensington, 202. 
 Palace Gate, Kensington, 150. 
 Palace Green, Kensington, 304. 
 Palace Yard, Lambeth, 25. 
 Palace Yard, Westminster, 76. 
 Pall Mall, 7, 9, 11, 24, 28, 57, 58, 114, 
 
 144, 151, 154, 204, 206, 207, 221, 
 
 244, 247, 251, 258, 262, 278, 290, 
 
 292, 297, 298, 300, 306, 308, 312. 
 Pall Mall Place, Pall Mall, 11. 
 Palsgrave's Head Inn, Strand, 247. 
 Palsgrave's Place, Strand, 247. 
 Palsgrave Eestaurant, Strand, 208. 
 Pantheon, Oxford Street, 78. 
 Paper Buildings, Temple, 183. 
 Paradise Tavern, 238. 
 Park Lane, 24, 32, 89. 
 Park Place, St. James's Street, 144, 
 
 288. 
 
 Park Street, Grosvenor Square, 90. 
 Park Street, Southwark, 17, 18, 70, 
 
 163, 174, 266. 
 
 Park Village, Regent's Park, 153. 
 Paris, France, 295. 
 Paris Garden, Bankside, 268. 
 Parliament Street, Westminster, 81, 
 
 244. 
 Parsloe's Coffee House, St. James's 
 
 Street, 62. 
 Parson's Green, Fulham, 13, 254, 
 
 255. 
 Parson's Green Lane, 131. 
 
 23 
 
 Paternoster Row, 22, 23, 44, 94, 166, 
 
 253. 
 
 Paul's Cross, 108-109. 
 Paul's School, 109, 211, 233. 
 Paul's Wharf, 105. 
 Pavement, High Street, Clapham, 
 
 200. 
 
 Pavement, Moorfields, 177-178. 
 Peabody Buildings, Drury Lane, 75. 
 Peak Hill Avenue, Sydeuham, 36. 
 Peak Hill Road, Sydenham, 36. 
 Peak Hill, Sydenham, 36. 
 Peckham, 119. 
 
 Peerless Pool, Old Street Road, 215. 
 Pembridge Villas, Bayswater, 203. 
 Penton Street, Pentonville, 126. 
 Pentonville Road, viii, 126, 146. 
 Peterborough House, Parson's Green, 
 
 255. 
 
 Petersham, 112. 
 Peter Street, Westminster, 70. 
 Petty France, Westminster, 213, 214. 
 Phoenix Alley, Long Acre, 301-302. 
 Phcenix Street, Somers Town, 116. 
 Physicians' Hall, Warwick Lane, 
 
 Paternoster Row, 94. 
 Piazza, Covent Garden, 51, 154, 155, 
 
 219, 274, 312. 
 Piccadillo Hall, 295. 
 Piccadilly, 10, 30, 32, 34, 37, 53, 73, 
 
 242, 261, 262. 
 Piccadilly Circus, 30. 
 Piccadilly Terrace, 32. 
 Pickett Street, St. Clement Danes, 
 
 196. 
 
 Pied Bull Inn, Islington, 249-250. 
 Pillars of Hercules Tavern, 261. 
 Pirnlico, 37. 
 
 Pineapple Inn, New Street, 156. 
 Pinner's Court, Old Broad Street, 18. 
 Pinner's Hall, 17, 18, 317, 318. 
 Pitcher's Court, Great Bell Alley, 
 
 Coleman Street, City, 20. 
 Pitt's Buildings, Kensington, 228. 
 Pitt's Place, Parson's Green, 254. 
 Pitt Street, Kensington, 228. 
 Playhouse Yard, Ludgate Hill, 265. 
 Plough Court, Carey Street, 198. 
 Plough Court, Lombard Street, 240.
 
 354 
 
 INDEX OF PLACES. 
 
 Plough Inn, High Street, Clapham, 
 
 201. 
 Plough Inn, Plough Court, Carey 
 
 Street, 198. 
 Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey, 
 
 5, 37, 47, 71, 79, 130, 274, 285, 286, 
 
 288, 315. 
 
 Poet's Head, Phoenix Alley, 301. 
 Poland Street, Oxford Street, 72. 
 Polygon, Somers Town, 116. 
 Pompeii, 24. 
 
 Pontack's Ordinary, 102, 299, 300. 
 Pope's Head Alley, Cornhill, 239. 
 Pope's Head Inn, Chancery Lane, 
 
 239. 
 Pope's Head Inn, Pope's Head Alley, 
 
 239. 
 
 Pope's Villa, Twickenham, 241-242. 
 Portland Hotel, Portland Place, Ox- 
 ford Street, 320. 
 
 Portland Place, Hammersmith, 58. 
 Portland Place, Oxford Street, 320. 
 Portman Square, 36, 102, 312. 
 Portsea, 79. 
 Portsmouth, 125. 
 Portsmouth Street, Lincoln's Inn 
 
 Fields, 143. 
 Portugal Row, Lincoln's Inn Fields, 
 
 74. 
 Portugal Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, 
 
 8, 10, 74, 143. 
 Poultney Hill, 115. 
 Poultry, 77, 137, 179, 223, 277. 
 Princes Square, Ratcliffe Highway, 
 
 296, 297. 
 
 Princes Street, Hanover Square, 256. 
 Priory, St. John's Wood, 98-99. 
 Prospect Place, Newington Butts, 
 
 284. 
 
 Puddle Wharf, Blackfriars, 265. 
 Pump Court, 104. 
 Putney ,"9, 141, 149. 
 Putney Bridge, 142, 154. 
 Putne}' Common, 153, 154. 
 Putney Hill, 113. 
 
 QUAKER TAVERN, Westminster, 239. 
 Queen Anne Mansions, Westminster, 
 132, 214. 
 
 Queen Anne Street, Cavendish 
 
 Square, 21, 27, 71, 131. 
 Queen's Arms Tavern, Cheapside, 
 
 179. 
 Queen's Arms Tavern, Newgate 
 
 Street, 97, 168. 
 Queen's Arms Tavern, St. Paul's 
 
 Churchyard, 167-168. 
 Queensbury House, 112. 
 Queen's College, Cambridge, 19. 
 Queen's College, Oxford, 2. 
 Queen's Gate, South Kensington, 
 
 146. 
 Queen's Head Alley, Newgate Street, 
 
 167. 
 
 Queen's Head Lane, Islington, 249. 
 Queen's Head Street, Islington, 250. 
 Queen's Head Tavern, Cheapside, 
 
 179. 
 Queen's Head Tavern, Islington, 249, 
 
 250. 
 Queen's Hotel, Queen Street, Soho, 
 
 125. 
 
 Queen's Road, Finchley Road, 139. 
 Queen's Row, Knightsbridge, 226. 
 Queen Square, Bloomsbury, 51, 72, 73. 
 Queen Street, Berkeley Square, 273, 
 
 280. 
 
 Queen Street, Hammersmith, 226. 
 Queen Street, Soho, 124, 125. 
 Queen Street, Upper Thames Street, 
 
 176, 237. 
 Queen Victoria Street, 223, 265. 
 
 RAINBOW TAVERN, 27. 
 
 Ranelagh, 60. 
 
 Ratcliffe Highway, 54, 296. 
 
 Rathbone Place, Oxford Street, 131. 
 
 Rational Club, 155. 
 
 Reading, 217. 
 
 Red Bull Theatre, Clerkenwell, 75, 
 
 264, 316. 
 Red Bull Yard, Clerkenwell, 75, 264, 
 
 315, 316. 
 Red Lion and Sun Hotel, Highgate, 
 
 59. 
 
 Red Lion Fields, Holborn, 214. 
 Red Lion Hill, Hainpstead, 14. 
 Red Lion Inn, Parliament Street, 81.
 
 IXDEX OF PLACES. 
 
 355 
 
 Red Lion Square, 214, 248. 
 Reform Club, 154, 306. 
 Regent's Park, 18, 98, 138, 199, 262. 
 Rhenish Wine Inn, Canon Row, 
 
 Westminster, 239. 
 Rhenish Wine Inn, Steel Yard, 
 
 Upper Thames Street, 239. 
 Richard's Coffee House (Dick's), 67. 
 Richmond, 62, 308. 
 Richmond Bridge, 62. 
 Rising Sun Tavern, Enfield, 191. 
 Robert Street, Adelphi, 138. 
 Robin Hood Tavern, Essex Street, 
 
 Strand, 28. 
 Robinson's Coffee House, Charing 
 
 Cross, 260. 
 
 Rogue's Lane, Fleet Street, 8. 
 Rope Makers' Alley, Moorfields, 77- 
 
 78. 
 
 Rope Makers' Street, Moorfields, 78. 
 Rosamond's Pond, St. James's Park, 
 
 61. 
 
 Rose Street, Bankside, 174. 
 Rose Street, Covent Garden, viii, 29, 
 
 95-96. 
 
 Rose Street, Newgate Street, 60. 
 Rose Tavern, Brydges Street, 113. 
 Rose Tavern, Holborn Hill, 301. 
 Rose Tavern, Russell Street, Covent 
 
 Garden, 239. 
 
 Rose Theatre. Bankside, 174, 268. 
 Rosslyn Hill, Hampstead, 16. 
 Rota Club, 208, 238. 
 Round Court, Strand, 282. 
 Royal Academy of Arts, 32. 
 Royal Albert Hall, 195. 
 Royal Exchange, 63, 69, 76, 77, 92, 
 
 239, 313. 
 Royal Institution, Albemarle Street, 
 
 102. 
 
 Royal Society, 229, 235. 
 Rummer Court, Spring Gardens, 246. 
 Rummer Tavern, Spring Gardens, 
 
 246. 
 Running Footman Tavern, Charles 
 
 Street, Berkeley Square, 24. 
 Russell Square, 217. 
 Russell Street, Covent Garden, x, 6, 
 
 7, 21, 55, 62, 71, 101, 149, 154, 155, 
 
 170, 189, 226. 237, 239, 243, 291, 
 
 300. 
 
 Rutland House, Aldersgate Street, 75. 
 Ryder Street, 297. 
 
 SADLEKS WICLLS THEATRE, 190. 
 St. Albans, 67. 
 
 St. Alban's Place, Haymarket, 298. 
 St. Albau's Street, Haymarket, 298. 
 St. Andrew's Church, Holboru, 87, 
 
 131-132, 259. 
 St. Andrew's Hill, 2.i">. 
 St. Andrew' s-by-the- Wardrobe, 265- 
 St. Anne's Church, Carter Lane, 265. 
 St. Anne's Church, Soho, 134. 
 St. Anne's Hill, Chelsea, 65. 
 St. Anne's Lane (St. Anne's Street), 
 
 Westminster, 136-137. 
 St. Anne's Street, Westminster, 137. 
 St. Anthony's Free School, Thread- 
 needle Street, 222. 
 St. Bartholomew-the-Great, 214. 
 St. Benedict's Chapel, Westminster 
 
 Abbey, 20, 48. 
 St. Benet's Church, Paul's Wharf, 
 
 105. 
 
 St. Bennet Fink, 16, 240. 
 St. Botolph's Church, Aldgate, 47. 
 St. Bride's Church, Fleet Street, 
 
 92, 199, 255. 
 St. Bride's Churchyard, Fleet Street, 
 
 211, 212. 
 St. Clement Danes' Church, 92, 117, 
 
 165-166, 170, 195, 196, 231. 
 St. Dunstan's Church, Canterbury, 
 
 225. 
 St. Dunstan's Church, Fleet Street, 
 
 6, 17, 91, 198, 257. 
 St. Dunstan's Churchyard, 314. 
 St. Faith's Church, 211. 
 St. George's Church, Hanover 
 
 Square, 4. 99, 293. 
 St. George's Church, Southwark, 80, 
 
 81, 320. 
 St. George's Hospital, Hyde Park, 
 
 149. 
 
 St. George's Place, Hyde Park, 149. 
 St. George Street, Shadwell, 54, 
 
 296.
 
 356 
 
 INDEX OF PLACES, 
 
 St. Giles's Church, Cripplegate, 76, 
 
 77, 108, 215, 216. 
 St. Giles's-in-the-Fields, 208, 276. 
 St. Helen's, Bishopsgate, 268. 
 St. James's Church, Clerkenwell, 
 
 314. 
 
 St. James's Church, Garlickhithe, 45. 
 St. James's Coffee House, St. James's 
 
 Street, 7, 89, 290, 299. 
 St. James's Hotel, Jermyu Street, 
 
 263. 
 St. James's Market, 103, 104, 274, 
 
 298. 
 
 St. James's Market Place, 17, 18. 
 St. James's Park, 41, 61, 101, 115, 
 
 213, 214, 238, 246. 
 St. James's Place, 1, 6, 32, 73, 90, 205, 
 
 257-258, 262, 285, 297, 303. 
 St. James's Square, 28, 49, 109-110, 
 
 297. 
 St. James's Street, 7, 8, 31, 33, 35, 
 
 37, 54, 62, 89, 110, 114, 115, 142, 
 
 167, 204, 221, 240, 244, 247, 259, 
 
 274, 291. 310, 312. 
 St. John's Chapel, John Street, 
 
 Hampstead, 182. 
 
 St. John's College, Cambridge, 171. 
 St. John's Gate, Clerkenwell, 40, 
 
 157, 260. 
 St. John's Lane, Clerkenwell, 126, 
 
 170, 260. 
 
 St. John's Road, Islington, 308. 
 St. John's Street, Clerkenwell, 19, 
 
 75, 260, 264, 315. 
 St. John's Street Road, Islington, 
 
 126, 170. 
 
 St. John's Wood, 138, 154, 193. 
 St. John - the - Evangelist, Smith 
 
 Square, 50-51. 
 St. Katherine-Cree, 47. 
 St. Lawrence's Church, Brentford, 
 
 309. 
 St. Luke's Church. Chelsea, 63, 225, 
 
 264, 290, 298. 
 
 St. Luke's Hospital, Old Street, 215. 
 St. Margaret's Church, Westminster, 
 
 35, 66-67, 233, 252, 310. 
 St. Margaret's Hill, Southwark, 48. 
 St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, 11, 41. 92, 
 
 104, 171, 172, 173, 220, 245, 278, 
 
 301, 302. 
 St. Martin's Lane, 61, 156, 176, 242, 
 
 274, 295. 
 
 St. Martin's-le-Gfaiid, 97, 168, 212. 
 St. Martin's Street, Leicester Square, 
 
 72-73, 227, 228, 299. 
 St. Mary Aldermarv, Watling Street, 
 
 45. 
 
 St. Mary-at-Hill, 324. 
 St. Mary Axe, 87, 317. 
 St Maryleboue Church, 12, 30. 
 St. Mar'y-le-Bow Church, 210. 
 St. Mary-lc-Savoy, 320. 
 St. Mary-le-Strand, 116. 
 St. Mary Magdalen, Milk Street, 17. 
 St. Mary Magdalen, Richmond, 308. 
 St. Mary Overy, 107, 108, 126, 127, 
 
 209, 266. 267^ 269. 
 St. Mary's Chapel, Westminster 
 
 Abbey, 47. 
 
 St. Mary's Church, Baling, 309. 
 St. Mary's Church, Kensington, 62, 
 
 63, 151, 203. 
 
 St. Mary's Church, Putney, 113. 
 St. Marj''s Church, Wyndham Place, 
 
 Bryanston Square, 194. 
 St. Mary Woolchurch, 275. 
 St. Michael's Alley, Cornhill, 245. 
 St. Michael's Church, Cornhill, 128. 
 St. Michael's Church, Highgate, 58. 
 St. Michael's Church, Old Verulam, 
 
 13. 
 
 St. Michael's Court, Cornhill, 245. 
 St. Mildred's Church, Bread Street, 
 
 271. 
 
 St. Mildred's Court, Poultry, 137. 
 St. Nicholas's Church, Deptford, 204- 
 
 205. 
 St. Olave's Church, Hart Street, 
 
 233, 234, 235, 238. 
 St. Pancras Gardens, 118, 271, 272. 
 St. Pancras-in-the-Fields (Old St. 
 
 Pancras Church), 116, 118, 271, 
 
 273, 316. 
 St. Paul's Cathedral, 39, 109, 276- 
 
 277, 279. 
 
 St. Paul's Church, Covent Garden, x, 
 29, 41, 218, 283, 284, 302, 321, 323.
 
 INDEX OF PLACES. 
 
 857 
 
 St. Paul's Church, Dock Street, 54. 
 St. Paul's Church, Hammersmith, 
 
 226. 
 St. Paul's Churohyard, 7, 109, 137, 
 
 167-168, 211, 236, 271. 
 St. Paul's School (see Paul's School). 
 St. Paul's School, Shadwell, 54. 
 St. Peter's Church, Sumner Street, 
 
 Southwark Bridge Road, 268. 
 St. Peter's College (see Westminster 
 
 School). 
 
 St. Peter's Street, St. Albans, 67. 
 St. Saviour's Church, Southwark, 
 107, 108, 126, 127, 209, 266, 267, 
 269. 
 St. Sepulchre's Church, Holborn, 26, 
 
 116, 117. 
 St. Swithin's Church, London Stone, 
 
 92. 
 
 St. Thomas's Hospital, 10, 178. 
 St. Vedast's Church, Foster Lane, 
 
 136. 
 
 Salisbury, 1. 
 Salisbury Court, Fleet Street (see 
 
 Salisbury Square). 
 Salisbury Square, 92, 118, 198, 229, 
 
 253, 264. 
 Salutation and Cat Inn, Newgate 
 
 Street, 60, 187, 285. 
 Salutation Inn, Newgate Street, 60. 
 Samson's Ordinary, St. Paul's 
 
 Churchyard, 236. 
 
 Sandford, Manor House, Chelsea, 3. 
 Sandj r End, Fulham, 2. 
 Sardinia Place, Lincoln's Inn Fields, 
 
 111. 
 
 Sargent's Inn, 64. 
 Savile Club, 274. 
 Savile House, Twickenham, 219. 
 Savile Row, Burlington Gardens, 
 
 112, 130, 274, 279. 
 Savoy, The, 69, 238. 
 Savoy Buildings, Strand, 170, 290, 
 
 300. 
 
 Savoy Chapel, 46, 320. 
 Savoy Hill, 46. 
 Savoy Palace, 46. 
 Savoy Street, 46, 320. 
 Saves Court, Deptford, 100, 101. 
 
 Sayes Court Street, 101. 
 Schomberg House, 300. 
 Scotland Yard, 207, 213, 
 Scriblerus Club, 113, 243, 244, 300. 
 Seething Lane, 233, 234, 235, 236. 
 Selby House, North End, Hammer- 
 smith, 254. 
 
 Serle's Coffee House, 8, 10. 
 Serle Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, 8, 
 
 10, 198. 
 
 Sessions House, Westminster, 239. 
 Sevenoaks, 129, 200. 
 Seymour Place, Connaught Square, 
 
 194. 
 Seymour Street, Portman Square, 23, 
 
 36. 
 
 Shacklewell, 184. 
 Shadwell, 75. 
 Shaftesbury House, Kensington 
 
 Road, 275. 
 
 Shanet Place, Strand, 247. 
 Sheffield Street, Clare Market, 290. 
 Ship Tavern, Charing Cross, 246. 
 Ship Tavern, Little Tower Street, 307. 
 Ship Yard, Strand, 196. 
 Shire Lane, Fleet Street, 8, 141, 218, 
 
 291. 
 Shoe Lane, v, 42, 43, 44, 124, 199, 
 
 238, 314. 
 Shooter's Court, Throgmorton Street, 
 
 130. 
 
 Shoreditch, 42, 172, 227. 
 Simpson's Tavern, 170. 
 Sir Richard Steele's Tavern, Haver- 
 stock Hill, 290. 
 
 Skinner Street, Holborn, 26, 116-117. 
 Slaughter's Coffee House, 61, 242. 
 Sloane Street, Knightsbridge, 30, 150, 
 
 194. 
 
 Sloane Terrace, Sloane Street, 30. 
 Smith Square, Westminster, 50. 
 Smith Street, Westminster, 284, 288. 
 Smyrna Coffee House, Pall Mall, 
 
 247, 299, 300, 308. 
 now Hill, 25-26, 117. 
 Society of Arts, v, 28, 30, 90, 102, 
 
 111, 112, 222, 227, 273, 311. 
 Soho Square, 60, 61, 63, 78, 101, 124- 
 
 125, 140.
 
 358 
 
 INDEX OF PLACES. 
 
 Somerset House, 46, 68, 310, 311. 
 Somerset Place, Portmau Square, 
 
 273. 
 
 Somers Town, 116, 141. 
 Southampton Buildings, Holborn, 
 
 133, 135, 188, 191. 
 
 Southampton Coffee House, South- 
 ampton Buildings, 135. 
 Southampton House, Bloomsbury 
 
 Square, 52. 
 
 Southampton House, Holborn, 52. 
 Southampton Row, Bloomsbury 
 
 Square, 128, 217, 248. 
 Southampton Square, 17. 
 Southampton Street, Bloomsbury 
 
 Square, 52. 
 Southampton Street, Strand, 52, 63, 
 
 321. 
 South Audley Street, 41, 49, 50, 89, 
 
 137, 21?. 
 Southgate, 144. 
 
 South Kensington (see Kensington). 
 South Kensington Museum, 83, 85, 
 
 111. 
 
 South Sea House, 184-185. 
 South Square, Gray's Inn, 202. 
 Southwark, 10, 48, 70, 107, 141, 163, 
 
 174, 178, 209, 238, 295. 
 Southwark Bridge Crossing, 266. 
 Southwark Bridge Road, 19, 174, 176, 
 
 266. 
 Spanish Place, Manchester Square, 
 
 102, 206. 
 
 Spiller's Head Club, 54. 
 Spring Gardens, 41, 52, 53, 213, 246, 
 
 282. 
 
 Squire's Coffee House, 8. 
 Stafford, 314. 
 
 Stanhope Place, Oxford Street, 293. 
 Staple Inn, 159. 
 Star and Garter Tavern, Pall Mall, 
 
 247, 300. 
 
 Star Tavern, Cheapside, 239. 
 Steele's Cottage, Haverstock Hill, 
 
 289-290. 
 Steele's Studios, Haverstock Hill, 
 
 290. 
 
 Steel Yard, Upper Thames Street, 239. 
 Stepney Church, 250. 
 
 Stevens's Hotel, New Bond Street, 31. 
 
 Stockbridge Terrace, Pimlico, 37. 
 
 Stock Exchange, 130. 
 
 Stoke Court, Stoke Pogis, 128-129. 
 
 Stoke Newington, 16, 75, 77, 130, 
 256, 317. 
 
 Stoke Newiugton Church, 16. 
 
 Stoke Pogis, 128-129. 
 
 Stoke Pogis Church, 129. 
 
 Strand, 8, 56, 97, 106, 112, 113, 116, 
 117, 176, 183, 197, 208, 227, 235, 
 238, 247, 249, 256, 258, 272, 280, 
 282, 290, 300, 310. 
 
 Stratford-on-Avon, 264, 270. 
 
 Stratford Place, Oxford Street, 279. 
 
 Stratton Street, Piccadilly, 310. 
 
 Strawberry Hill, 53, 311, 312. 
 
 Streatham, Surrey, 162-163. 
 
 Stretford, Nottinghamshire, 50. 
 
 Suffolk Lane, Upper Thames Street, 
 275, 285. 
 
 Suffolk Street, Haymarket, 298. 
 
 Simmer Place, Onslow Square, 304. 
 
 Sunmer Street, Southwark, 266. 
 
 Sun-behind-the-Exchange Inn, 239. 
 
 Sunbury, Middlesex, 23. 
 
 Sun Tavern, Chancery Lane, 239. 
 
 Sun Tavern, King Street, Westmin- 
 ster, 239. 
 
 Sun Tavern, New Fish Street, 239. 
 
 Surrey Street, Strand, 63, 64. 
 
 Surrey Theatre, Southwark, 141. 
 
 Sussex Chambers, Duke's Street, St. 
 James's Street, 37. 
 
 Sussex House, Hammersmith, 206. 
 
 Sussex Place, Regent's Park, 262. 
 
 Swallowfield, 217. 
 
 Swallow Place, Oxford Street, 18. 
 
 Swallow Street, Piccadilly, 17, 18. 
 
 Swan Inn, Fenchurch Street, 239. 
 
 Swan Inn, Old Fish Street, 239. 
 
 Swan Inn, Tottenham, 314-315. 
 
 Swedish Church, Ratcliffe Highway, 
 296. 
 
 Sydenham, 30, 35, 36. 
 
 TABARD INN, Southwark, 48. 
 Tabernacle Row, Finsbury, 318. 
 Talbot Inn, Southwark, 48.
 
 INDEX OF PLACES. 
 
 359 
 
 Talbot Inn Yard, 48. 
 
 Taverns: Adam and Eve, Kensing- 
 ton Koad, 275; African, St. Mi- 
 chael's Alley, Cornhill, 245; Albi- 
 on, Aldersgate Street, 130 ; Albion, 
 Russell Street, Covent Garden, 
 154-155; Argyll Rooms, 295; Arun- 
 del Hotel, Norfolk Street, Strand, 
 232; Bear and Harrow, Butcher 
 Row, 196 ; Bear-at-the-Bridge-Foot, 
 295, 323; Bear Inn, Southwark, 
 238 ; Bedford Coffee House, Covent 
 Garden, 51, 61, 106, 226, 242, 274, 
 312; Bedford Head Tavern, Maid- 
 en Lane, Covent Garden, 207 ; Bed- 
 ford Hotel, Covent Garden, 5, 303 ; 
 Bedford Tavern, Maiden Lane, 
 Covent Garden, 207; Bell Inn, 
 Aldersgate, 301; Bell Inn, Carter 
 Lane, 270-271; Bell Inn, Edmon- 
 ton, ix, 192; Bell Inn, King Street, 
 Westminster, 236, 244, 300; Black 
 Jack, 143; Blue Bells, Lincoln's 
 Inn Fields, 238; Boar's Head, 
 Eastcheap, 125, 270; Brew House, 
 Axe Yard, 75 ; British Coffee 
 House, 170, 282: Bull and Bush, 
 Hammersmith, 8; Bull, Shore- 
 ditch, 227; Bull, Tower Hill, 231; 
 Bull's Head, Clare Market, 290; 
 Bull's Head, Spring Gardens, 52, 
 53, 213; Button's, x. 6, 149, 175, 
 260, 291, 300; Carey House, Strand, 
 238 ; Castle, Henrietta Street, 
 Covent Garden, 273; Castle, Isling- 
 ton, 54; Castle, Savoy, 238; Cat and 
 Fiddle, 218 ; Chapter Coffee House, 
 22, 44, 124; Chatelain's, 238; 
 Cheshire Cheese, 120, 170; Child's, 
 7; Cider Cellar, Maiden Lane, 
 Covent Garden, 245; Clarendon 
 Hotel, New Bond Street, 167; 
 Clifton's, Butcher Row, 170; 
 Clunn's, Covent Garden, 154; 
 Cock, Bow Street, 322, 323; Cock, 
 Fleet Street, 170, 238; Cock, Suf- 
 folk Street, 238; Cock, Tothill 
 Street, 234; Cocoa Tree, 7, 8. 247, 
 259; Cox's Hotel, Jermyu Street, 
 
 30; Crooked Billet, Wimbledon, 
 309; Cross Keys, St. John's 
 Street, Clerkenwell, 260; Crown 
 and Anchor, Arundel Street, 
 Strand, 105, 170, 258, 280; Crown 
 and Horse-Shoes, Entield, 191; 
 Crown, Hercules Pillars' Alley, 
 237 ; Crown, King Street, Cheap- 
 side, 260; Crown, King Street, 
 Westminster, 244; Crown, Vinegar 
 Yard, 274; Devil, Fleet Street, 6, 
 7, 124, 169, 175, 238, 290, 300; 
 Dick's, 8, 67, 290; Dolphin, Seeth- 
 ing Lane, 236; Don Saltero's, 
 Chelsea, 112, 282, 291; Dorant's 
 Hotel, Jerniyn Street, 30; Doves, 
 Hammersmith, 227, 308; Duke of 
 York's, Shire Lane, 8; Duke's 
 Head, Parson's Green, 255; Essex 
 Head, 168; Falcon, Bankside, 25, 
 176, 268, 270; Feathers, 187; 
 Fischer's Hotel, New Bond Street, 
 31; Fleece, Covent Garden, 237; 
 Fountaine, Strand, 170, 290, 300; 
 Garaway's, 300; George, Church 
 Street, Kensington, 228; George, 
 Pall Mall, 300; George, Strand, 
 226, 227, 272; Globe, Bankside, 
 266 ; Globe, Fleet Street, 124, 300 ; 
 Goat. Charing Cross, 238 ; Golden 
 Eagle, New Street, 238; Golden 
 Fleece, Edmonton, 192; Golden 
 Hart, Greenwich, 157; Golden Lion, 
 Charing Cross, 238 ; Gordon's Ho- 
 tel, Albemarle Street, 32 : Grecian, 
 Devereux Court, Strand, 7, 10, 124, 
 168, 229, 291; Half Moon, Aiders- 
 gate Street, 64, 176, 323 ; Hand-in- 
 Hand, Wimbledon, 309; Harrow, 
 Fleet Street. 313; Haycock's, 208; 
 Heaven, 238 ; Hell, 238 ; Hercules 
 Pillars', 273, 291; Holland Arms, 
 Kensington, 4 ; Holly Bush, 
 Hampstead, 14; Horse and Groom, 
 Edmonton, 192; Hummums, Co- 
 vent Garden, 68-69; Jack's 
 (Walker's Hotel), Queen Street, 
 Soho, 124-125; Jerusalem, St. 
 John's Gate, 157; Jolly Farmer,
 
 360 
 
 INDEX OF PLACES. 
 
 Edmonton, 192; Jump (Black 
 Jack), 143; King's Arms, Pall 
 Mall, 9 ; King's Head, Fleet Street, 
 238; King's Head, Islington, 239; 
 King's Head, Ivy Lane, 167; 
 King's Head, Pall Mall, 290; 
 King's Head, Tower Street, 239; 
 Leg, King Street, Westminster, 
 230; Lion and Sun Hotel, High- 
 gate, 59; Load of Hay, Haver- 
 stock Hill, 289-290; Lockitt's 
 Ordinary, Charing Cross, 246; 
 Long's Hotel, 32, 34, 263; Mer- 
 maid, Cheapside, 20, 175-176, 270; 
 Mitre, Fenchurch Street, 236; 
 Mitre, Fleet Street, 168, 169, 236 ; 
 Mitre, St. James's Market, 103- 
 104; Mitre, Wood Street Cheap- 
 side, 236 : Mulberry Gardens, 95, 
 101-102; Nag's Head, Southwark, 
 320 ; Old Baptist Head, 126, 170 ; 
 One Tun, 274; Ozinda's, 300; 
 Palsgrave's Head, Strand, 247; 
 Palsgrave Restaurant, 208; Para- 
 dise, 238; Parsloe's, St. James's 
 Street, 62; Piccadillo Hall, 295: 
 Pied Bull, Islington, 249, 250; Pil- 
 lars of Hercules, 261; Pineapple, 
 Now Street, 156; Plough, Clapham, 
 201; Plough, Plough Court, Carey 
 Street, 198; Poet's Head, 301; 
 Pontack's, 102, 299, 300; Pope's 
 Head, Chancery Lane, 239; 
 Pope's Head, Pope's Head Alley, 
 239; Portland Hotel, Portland 
 Place, 320; Quaker, Westminster, 
 239 ; Queen's Arms, Cheapside, 179 ; 
 Queen's Arms, Newgate Street, 97, 
 168; Queen's Arms, St. Paul's 
 Churchyard, 167, 168; Queen's 
 Head, Cheapside, 179; Queen's 
 Head, Islington, 249, 250; Queen's 
 Hotel, Queen Street, Soho, 125; 
 Rainbow, 27; Red Lion and Sun, 
 Highgate, 59; Red Lion, Parlia- 
 ment Street, 81; Rhenish Wine, 
 Canon Row, Westminster, 239; 
 Rhenish Wine, Steel Yard, Upper 
 Thames Street, 239; Richard's, 67; 
 
 Rising Sun, Enfield, 191; Robin 
 Hood, Essex Street, Strand, 28; 
 Robinson's, Charing Cross, 260; 
 Rose, Biydges Street, 113; Rose, 
 Holboru Hill, 301; Rose, Russell 
 Street, Covent Garden, 239 ; Rum- 
 mer, Spring Gardens, 246; Run- 
 ning Footman, Charles Street, 
 Berkeley Square, 24; St. James's 
 Coffee House, St. James's Street, 
 7, 89, 290, 299; St. James's Ho-' 
 tel, Jermyn Street, 263; Saluta- 
 tion, Newgate Street, 60; Saluta- 
 tion and Cat, Newgate Street, 60, 
 187, 285; Samson's, St. Paul's 
 Churchyard, 236; Serle's, 8, 10; 
 Ship, Charing Cross, 246; Ship, 
 Little Tower Street, 307; Simp- 
 son's, Strand, 170; Sir Richard 
 Steele's, Haverstock Hill, 290; 
 Slaughter's, 61, 242; Smyrna, 247. 
 299, 300, 308; Southampton < 
 House, Southampton Buildings, 
 135; Squire's, 8; Star and Garter, 
 Pall Mall, 247, 300; Star, Cheap- 
 side, 239; Sun-behind-the-Ex- 
 change, 239; Sun, Chancery Lane, 
 239; Sun, King Street, Westmin- 
 ster, 239; Sun, New Fish Street, 
 239; Swan, Fenchurch Street, 239; 
 Swan, Old Fish Street, 239 ; Swan, 
 Tottenham, 314-315; Tabard, South- 
 wark, 48; Talbot, Southwark, 48; 
 Thatched House, St. James's Street, 
 204, 291 ; Three-Cranes-m-the-Vin- 
 try, 176, 237; Three Feathers, 
 Russell Street, Covent Garden, 
 101; Three Pigeons, Brentford, 
 177; Three Tuns, Charing Cross, 
 239; Tom's, Birchin Lane, 44-45; 
 Tom's, Devereux Court, Strand, 
 10 ; Tom's, Russell Street, Covent 
 Garden, x, 55, 62, 170, 226, 282; 
 Triumphant Chariot. Hyde Park 
 Corner, 261. 291; Trumpet, Shire 
 Lane, 8, 291; Turk's Head, Gerard 
 Street, Soho, 123, 167; Turk's 
 Head, New Palace Yard, 208, 238- 
 Turk's Head, Strand, 98, 170
 
 INDEX OF PLACES. 
 
 361 
 
 245; Upper Flask, Hampstead, 9, 
 242, 289; Vauxhall, 61; Victoria, 
 Muswell Hill, 221 ; Walker's Hotel, 
 Queen Street, Soho, 124-125; 
 Waterloo Hotel, Jermyn Street, 
 263; West Indian, St. Michael's 
 Alley, Cornhill, 245; White Bear, 
 Southwark, 267; White Conduit 
 Tavern, Islington, 126; White 
 Conduit Tea Gardens, Islington, 
 126; White Hart, High Street 
 Borough, 270; White Horse, Chel- 
 sea, 291; White Horse, Kensing- 
 ton, 4; White Horse, Lombard 
 Street, 239; White Rose, West- 
 minster, 47 ; White Swan, Totten- 
 ham, 314-315; Will's, v, x, 7, 
 95, 113, 170, 175, 189, 234, -243, 
 282, 291, 299; World's End, 
 Knightsbridge, 239 ; Wrekin, 118, 
 154-155. 
 
 Tavistock House, Bloomsbury 
 Square, 131. 
 
 Tavistock House, Tavistock Square, 
 84, 217. 
 
 Tavistock Row, Covent Garden, 321. 
 
 Tavistock Square, 84, 217. 
 
 Teddington, 232. 
 
 Telegraph Street, Coleman Street, 
 City, 20, 21. 
 
 Temple (see Inner Temple, and 
 Middle Temple). 
 
 Temple Bar, 7, 8, 17, 67, 169, 172, 
 173, 175, 208, 236, 238, 272, 300, 
 313. 
 
 Temple Church, 123. 
 
 Temple Gardens, 104-105, 121. 
 
 Temple Gate, 169, 175. 
 
 Temple Place, Blackfriars Row, 141. 
 
 Thames Street, 47, 197. 
 
 Thatched House Tavern, St. James's 
 Street, 204, 291. 
 
 Thayer Street, Manchester Square, 
 102. 
 
 The Club (see Club, The). 
 
 Theobalds, Cheshunt, Herts, 317. 
 
 Thistle Grove, Fulham Road, Chel- 
 sea, 153. 
 
 Thomas Street, Southwark, 10. 
 
 Threadneedle Street, 130, 185, 200, 
 222, 223, 235, 276. ' 
 
 Three-Cranes-in-the-Vintry, 176, 237. 
 
 Three Cranes Lane, Upper Thames 
 Street, 176. 
 
 Three Feathers Inn, Russell Street, 
 Covent Garden, 101. 
 
 Three Pigeons Inn, Brentford, 177. 
 
 Three Tuns Inn, Charing Cross, 239. 
 
 Throgmortou Avenue, 200. 
 
 Throgmorton Street, 130, 200. 
 
 Thurloe Place, South Kensington, 
 112. 
 
 Tilbury, 76. 
 
 Titchfield Street, Soho, 78. 
 
 Tokenhouse Yard, Lothbury, 138. 
 
 Tom's Coffee House, Birchin Lane, 
 44-45. 
 
 Tom's Coffee House, Devereux Court, 
 Strand, 10. 
 
 Tom's Coffee House, Russell Street, 
 Covent Garden, x, 55, 62, 170, 226. 
 282. 
 
 Took's Court, Cursitor Street, Chan- 
 cery Lane, 274. 
 
 Tooley Street, Southwark, 179, 238. 
 
 Torquay, 24. 
 
 Tothil Fields, Westminster, 283. 
 
 Tothill Street, Westminster, 27, 283, 
 284. 
 
 Tottenham, 314-315. 
 
 Tottenham Court Road, viii, 318. 
 
 Tottenham Court Road Chapel, 318. 
 
 Tottenham Cross, : -14. 
 
 Tower Chapel, 225. 
 
 Tower Hill, 225, 231, 232, 285. 
 
 Tower of London, 47, 225, 232, 235, 
 249, 250, 251, 301, 309, 320. 
 
 Tower Street, 239. 
 
 Trafalgar Bay, 125. 
 
 Trafalgar Square, 41, 206, 213, 278. 
 
 Trinity College, Cambridge, 70, 91, 
 172," 195. 
 
 Trinity Row (Upper Street), Isling- 
 ton, 87. 
 
 Trinity Square, Newington Cause- 
 way, 146. 
 
 Triumphant Chariot Tavern, Hyde 
 Park Corner, 261, 291.
 
 362 
 
 INDEX OF PLACES. 
 
 Trumpet Inn, Shire Lane, 8, 291. 
 Tufton Street, Westminster, 179. 
 Tully's Head, Pall Mall, 11, 28, 257, 
 
 312. 
 
 Tunbridge Wells, 71, 278. 
 Turk's Head Coffee House, Strand, 
 
 98, 170, 245. 
 Turk's Head Tavern, New Palace 
 
 Yard, 208, 2-38. 
 Turk's Head Tavern, Soho, 123, 
 
 167. 
 Twickenham, 12, 105, 219, 232, 241, 
 
 242. 
 
 Twickenham Church, 242. 
 Twickenham Park, 12. 
 Tyburn, 293. 
 
 UNION CLUB, 278. 
 
 Union Road, Newington Causeway, 
 
 146. 
 
 Union Street, Borough, 320. 
 United Service Club, 207. 
 University Street, Tottenham Court 
 
 Koad, 79. 
 Upper Berkeley Street, Portman 
 
 Square, 194. 
 Upper Cheyne Row, Chelsea, 146- 
 
 147, 281. 
 Upper Flask Tavern, Hampstead, 9, 
 
 242, 289. 
 
 Upper Grosvenor Street, 89. 
 Upper Harley Street, Cavendish 
 
 Square, 248. 
 
 Upper Mall, Hammersmith, 227, 308. 
 Upper Seymour Street, Portman 
 
 Square, 23. 39. 
 
 Upper Street, Islington, 69, 87. 
 Upper Thames Street, 45, 105, 176, 
 
 239, 285. 
 
 Upton Road, 154. 
 Uxbridge House, 112. 
 Uxbridge Road, 17, 106, 151. 
 
 VALE OF HEALTH, Hampstead 
 
 Heath, 148, 179. 
 Vauxhall, 61. 
 
 Vere Street, Clare Market, 290. 
 Vertilam, 13. 
 Vesuvius, 24. 
 
 Victoria Inn, Muswell Hill, 221. 
 Victoria Street, Buckingham Palace 
 
 Road, 37. 
 Villiers Street, Strand, 12, 81, 101, 
 
 290. 
 
 Vinegar Yard, Drury Lane, 274. 
 Vine Street, Westminster, 50. 
 
 WALKER'S HOTEL, Queen Street, 
 
 Soho, 124, 125. 
 
 Wallingford House, Whitehall, 66. 
 Walthamstow, Essex, 89. 
 Walworth Road, 2&4. 
 Wardour Street, Soho, 134, 275. 
 Wardrobe Place, Doctors' Commons, 
 
 265. 
 Wardrobe Terrace, St. Andrew's 
 
 Hill, 265. 
 
 Warner Street, Clerkenwell, 296. 
 Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row, 94. 
 Warwick Street, Charing Cross, 282. 
 Waterloo Bridge, 46. 
 Waterloo Hotel, Jermyn Street, 263. 
 Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, 24, 206, 
 
 221, 258, 262, 298. 
 Water Oakley, 9. 
 Watier's Club, 34. 
 Watling Street, City, 45, 210-211. 
 Welbeck Street, Cavendish Square, 
 
 114. 
 
 Wcllclose Square, Shadwell, 54, 75. 
 Wellington Barracks, St. James's 
 
 Park, 115. 
 
 Well Road, Hampstead, 180. 
 Well Walk, Hampstead, 16, 179, 180. 
 Wells Lane, Sydenham, 30. 
 Wentworth House, John Street, 
 
 Hampstead, 180-181. 182. 
 Wentworth Place, Downshire Hill, 
 
 Hampstead, 180-181, 182. 
 Westbourne Grove, 148. 
 West Horsley, Surrey, 252. 
 West Indian Tavern, St. Michael's 
 
 Alley, Cornhill, 245. 
 West Kensington Road, Hammer- 
 smith, 254. 
 Westminster Abbey, 5, 20. 24, 37, 
 
 39, 47, 51, 53, 66, 74, 91, 94, 101, 
 
 112, 130, 164-165, 172, 173, 174,
 
 INDEX OF PLACES. 
 
 363 
 
 203-204, 214, 227, 229, 259, 264, 
 274, 285, 286, 288, 315. 
 
 Westminster Bridge, 163. 
 
 Westminster Hall, 225. 
 
 Westminster Hospital, 28. 
 
 Westminster School, 50, 51, 61, 62, 
 64, 65, 66-67", 70, 91, 114, 136, 171, 
 173, 195, 197, 246, 258, 284, 309. 
 
 West Street, Finsbury Circus, 178. 
 
 Weymouth Street, Portland Place, 
 248, 279. 
 
 White Bear Inn, Bear Gardens, 
 Southwalk, 267. 
 
 White Conduit Tavern, 126. 
 
 White Conduit Tea Gardens, 126. 
 
 Whitefriars, 275. 
 
 Whitehall, v, 41, 101, 112, 207, 213, 
 233, 236, 244, 246, 299. 
 
 Whitehall Gardens, 89. 
 
 White Hart Inn, High Street, Bor- 
 ough, 270. 
 
 White Horse Inn, Chelsea, 291. 
 
 White Horse Inn, Kensington, 4. 
 
 White Horse Inn, Lombard Street, 
 239. 
 
 Whitehorse Street, Piccadilly, 262. 
 
 White Rose Tavern, Westminster, 
 47. 
 
 White's Club, 54. 
 
 White Swan Inn, Tottenham, 314- 
 315. 
 
 Whittington Club, 153, 170, 258. 
 
 Whitton, 294. 
 
 Wigmore Street, Cavendish Square, 
 220. 
 
 Wild Court, Great Wild Street, 111. 
 
 Wilderness Lane, 229. 
 
 Willis's Rooms, King Street, St. 
 James's Street, 305. 
 
 Will's Coffee House, v, x, 7, 95, 113 
 170, 175, 189, 237, 243, 282, 291, 
 299. 
 
 Wimbledon, 309, 310. 
 
 Wimbledon Common, 206-207, 309. 
 
 Wimbledon House, Wimbledon Com- 
 mon, 206. 
 
 Wimbledon Park, 206. 
 
 Wimpole Street, Cavendish Square, 
 
 27, 71, 131, 151. 
 
 Winchester Park, Bankside. 266. 
 Winchester Street, Bankside, 266. 
 Winchester Yard, Bankside, 266. 
 Windmill Hill, Hampstead, 14-15. 
 Windmill Street, Piccadilly, 295. 
 Wine Office Court, 120, 170. 
 Woodbridge Street, Clerkenwell, 75, 
 
 264, 316. 
 
 Woodford, Essex, 278. 
 Woodstock Street, Oxford Street, 
 
 157. 
 Wood Street, Cheapside, 136, 176, 
 
 236, 322. 
 World's End Tavern, Knightsbridge, 
 
 239. 
 Wormwood Street, Old Broad Street, 
 
 235. 
 
 Wrekin Tavern, 118, 154-155. 
 Wych Street, Drury Lane, 222. 
 Wyndham Place, Bryanston Square, 
 
 194. 
 
 YARROW, 322. 
 
 York Buildings, New Road, 146. 
 
 York Buildings, Villiers Street, 
 
 Strand, 290. 
 York Chambers, St. James's Street, 
 
 37. 
 York Gate, Buckingham Street, 
 
 Strand, 12, 230. 
 York House, 11-12, 290. 
 York Mews, Fulham Road, 221. 
 York Place, Marylebone Road, 146. 
 York Place, Queen's Elms, Bromp- 
 
 ton, 221. 
 
 York Street, Buckingham Gate, 115. 
 York Street, Co vent Garden, 79, 84, 
 
 237. 
 York Street, Westminster, 132-133, 
 
 214. 
 Young Street, Kensington, 303, 305. 
 
 ZOAR CHAPEL, Southwark, 25. 
 Zoar Street, Southwark, 25. 
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 IN "Literary Landmarks of London," Mr. Laurence Hutton has 
 worked out a felicitous idea with industiy, skill, and success. For 
 the first time, so far as we are aware, we have within the pages of a 
 moderate-sized volume all that is known or can be discovered of the 
 streets, houses, apartments, chambers, single rooms, and even garrets, 
 in which have resided, at one time or other of their lives, the men and 
 women who were famous in English letters. ... It is a volume that 
 every one should possess who takes an interest in the local associations 
 which London is so full of, unknown though they be to the vast ma- 
 jority of its inhabitants. With this compendium in one's hand there 
 is hardly a walk that one can take in London in which some fresh fea- 
 ture of interest would not be disclosed for all persons who have any 
 taste for, and knowledge of, literature and letters. The Standard, 
 London, June 5, 1887. 
 
 Mr. Button's unpretending volume makes no show of learning or 
 originality. . . . The great value of the book is that it sets forth 
 plainly and succinctly what the condition of these historic monuments, 
 these earthly abodes of the immortals, actually is in this year 1885. 
 A century hence the information will be greedily sought after by 
 chroniclers and commentators of all sorts. At the present moment it 
 is well worth having ; and Mr. Hutton deserves the gratitude of the 
 public for supplying it. The Daily News, London, June 5, 1885. 
 
 In his entertaining work, "Literary Landmarks of London," Mr. 
 Laurence Hutton, who deserves to be remembered as a most accom- 
 plished gossip, reminds us that our vast metropolis "has no associations 
 so interesting as those connected with its literary men." Convinced
 
 ii NOTICES OF THE PRESS. 
 
 of the truth of this, he has perambulated the town and suburbs with an 
 unwearying enthusiasm worthy of Old Mortality himself, to detect foot- 
 prints as well as to recover facts and legends before it is actually too 
 late to do such work at all. The Baptist, London, June 19, 1885. 
 
 Mr. Hutton has compiled a book which is so obviously what we all 
 constantly want that it seems odd and hard to believe that it has not 
 been forestalled long ago. True, places of literary association are 
 noted incidentally in ordinary handbooks, but this is the first work in 
 which a systematic attempt has been made to trace the residences 
 of literary worthies in London. Mr. Hutton has attained a great 
 measure of completeness in his task, and it would be difficult to 
 name any author of importance he has omitted. . . . Traditional 
 evidence is proverbially bad, yet in many cases Mr. Hutton has had 
 little else to go by. And we can only congratulate him on the 
 moderate and undogmatic manner in which he has stated doubtful 
 conclusions. 
 
 There is hardly anything more interesting in its way than to go 
 through the London streets and try to realize their appearance at the 
 time of any particular eminent inhabitant. Sometimes the task is too 
 difficult, as, for example, when we remember that John Bunyan lived 
 for a time and died on Snow Hill, at the house of his friend Mr. Strud- 
 wick, the grocer. The house was probably removed when Skinner 
 Street was built in 1802, and Mr. Hutton is no doubt right in supposing 
 that it was directly under the eastern pier of Holborn Viaduct. . . . 
 
 The book is admirably arranged, the authors' names being placed 
 in alphabetical order. It commences with Joseph Addison, and ends 
 with Edward Young. Of Young, by the way, there is not much to 
 record. He "had almost no association with London, except in his 
 marriage at the church of St. Mary-at-Hill, in Love Lane, East 
 Cheap, May 27, 1731." It is said that the death of Mrs. Young, nine 
 years later, was the proximate cause of the composition of the famous 
 " Night Thoughts." Mr. Hutton has had many difficulties to contend 
 with. "We have noticed the confusion caused by renumbering and 
 renaming. Besides this, in many instances entire streets have been 
 swept away. It is easier to-day, as Mr. Hutton observes, to discover 
 the house of a man who died two hundred years ago, before streets 
 were numbered at all, than to identify the houses of men who have 
 died within a few years. Dryden, for instance, was living in 1686 on 
 tho north side of Long Acre, over against Rose Street. The house is 
 easily found ; but the house in which Carlyle died has already, most
 
 NOTICES OF THE PRESS. iii 
 
 needlessly and stupidly, had its number altered, and is now 24 Great 
 Cheyne Row. It often happens, also, by some strange fatality, that an 
 interesting house has been removed or "restored" out of knowledge, 
 while adjacent old buildings about which no tradition or association 
 lingers are left intact. Thus Drayton's house in Fleet Street, near 
 St. Dunstan's Church, has been altered beyond recognition, while the 
 two houses next door remain as they were in his day. So, too, among 
 a multitude of old-fashioned inns which stand in Edmonton, as they 
 stood long before Lamb and Cowper, the " Bell" which they immor- 
 talized has been rebuilt again and again. Among the more absurd 
 changes is that which has befallen the once famous Grub Street. 
 Here, it is said, John Fox, or Foxe, the martyrologist, was living 
 when he published the "Acts and Monuments." "It lies between 
 Fore Street and Chiswell Street, and has now been called Milton 
 Street, in honor of the author who emphatically had no connection or 
 association with the original Grub Street or its literature." The 
 house in which Hood was bora in the Poultry has been taken down ; 
 and so has No. 7 Little Queen Street, where, in 1796, was enacted the 
 awful tragedy which clouded and saddened the lives of Charles and 
 Mary Lamb. A church is on the site, but Mr. Hutton notices that 
 behind it a tree is still standing in what had once been the back 
 garden. It would be easy to prolong these notes and extracts. To 
 any one who is interested in the history of literature, to any one 
 who is interested in old London, and the two classes comprise al- 
 most all the reading public, Mr. Hutton's book will be a delightful 
 boon. There are two indexes : the first of persons, in which not only 
 the celebrities noticed but the authors quoted are named ; and the 
 second of places. Altogether, this is a book of which literary America 
 may be proud, and literary London ashamed. Mr. Hutton has done 
 for us what we have never done for ourselves. The Saturday Review, 
 London, July 4, 1885. 
 
 Mr. Laurence Hutton, a well-known American writer, has done 
 excellent work in "Literary Landmarks of London." With extraor- 
 dinary patience he has consulted old maps, directories, chronicles, 
 parish surveys, records of estates, to discover the exact houses inhab- 
 ited in London at various times by literary celebrities. The result is a 
 volume of extraordinary accuracy and deep interest. Never before 
 has anything of the kind approaching this in thoroughness been 
 attempted ; and it will long remain the standard work on the subject. 
 The Graphic, London, July 11, 1885.
 
 iv NOTICES OF THE PRESS. 
 
 The author who devises a new and appropriate treatment of an old 
 subject deserves much praise, and to this praise Mr. Hutton is strictly 
 entitled. The many hunters after the haunts of great men must so 
 often have found the need of such a book as this that we cannot but 
 express surprise that the want has not been supplied before the year 
 1885. That it should now be supplied by an American is most natural, 
 for doubtless our cousins over the water make pilgrimages to shrines 
 that are quite neglected by ourselves. 
 
 The plan laid down by the author is admirably carried out, and the 
 main object is distinctly kept in view from beginning to end. There is 
 no attempt to write lives of the persons chronicled, but all the facts 
 connected with the London residences of those authors included in 
 the book are marshalled with care, and the result is a most readable 
 volume. 
 
 Mr. Hutton has not been content to gather his materials from the 
 various sources available, but he has taken care to verify the different 
 statements on the spot ; and we may here note one very useful feature, 
 which is, that whenever the somewhat vague word "now" is used the 
 actual date is always added ia'parentheses. The gain to precision here 
 is great. .... 
 
 As we turn over the pages of this handy volume and follow the 
 alphabet from Addison to Young, we cannot but feel how much 
 our authors have done to throw a charm over the bricks and mortar of 
 our great city. The men who make history are as a rule excluded, 
 but those who keep that history from being forgotten are here in 
 full force. Who shall say that the surroundings of a great town are 
 uncongenial to the poetic spirit, when we remember that our greatest 
 poets Chaucer, Shakspere, and Milton spent their busy lives in 
 the streets of London ? Even Wordsworth, who naturally has but few 
 lines devoted to him, expressed in his majestic sonnet his sense of 
 the beauty of the sleeping city as he looked at it from Westminster 
 Bridge. It is strange to find how few of our famous authors have 
 been entirely unconnected with London. 
 
 Every page contains several facts, facts that have to be verified, 
 and it is great praise to be able to say that these are generally accurate. 
 An index of persons and another of places complete the book. Tin: 
 AtJwnceum, London, July 18, 1885. 
 
 London to the literary man and especially the literary man who 
 has reached middle age without the conventional surrender of sentiment 
 is a land of shadows. Hardly a nook of this huge city "opulent,
 
 NOTICES OF THE PRESS. V 
 
 enlarged, and still increasing " but is hallowed by some unsubstan- 
 tial shade, which, like the picture to the Spanish monk, is more real 
 to him than the palpable and demonstrative persons who "scrowdge " 
 and jostle him in its crowded streets. It is Gray picking his way back 
 from Covent Garden with his dearly loved pinks and scarlet Martogon 
 lilies ; it is Fielding at tea in the upper room at Bow Street, reading 
 the case of Elizabeth Canning ; it is Steele making fun in the circle at 
 "Will's over the last utterance of Blackmore ; or perhaps it is Lamb 
 rejoicing that he can see both theatres from the windows of his lodg- 
 ings ; or Ben Jonson baptizing his sons in the "Apollo ;" or Newton 
 going in his chair to visit the Princess Caroline. It is a hundred and 
 one incidents of the past that seem to be a part of his own past, and to 
 strive for existence with his personal recollections. To those who 
 admit these visionary antecedents, who delight in these appropriated 
 memories, there can be no more delightful companion than the modest 
 volume, "plain in its neatness," to which its writer, Mr. Laurence 
 Hutton, has given the name of " Literary Landmarks of London." It 
 is one of those books of which one may say emphatically that they have 
 been labors of love. The writer an American well known for .his 
 frequent visits to this country has not only accumulated with exem- 
 plary patience all the written information that he could discover about 
 the homes and haunts of London litterateurs, but he has visited those 
 haunts and homes himself wherever possible, and makes fit record of 
 their sites or aspect. It is this, perhaps, which gives its greatest value 
 to the book, that, wherever at all practicable, its facts have been 
 verified de visu, an advantage which in these days, when annihilation 
 flourishes under the name of improvement, and the renumbering of 
 streets is fast producing chaos, can scarcely be overestimated. Mr. 
 Hutton's plan has been to trace the various dwellings of his subjects 
 from their cradles to their graves, illustrating each ascertained stage by 
 some apposite quotation, and faithfully giving his authprities. The 
 result is a book which it is delightful either to read through or to 
 glance at for ten minutes, with this advantage, that when it has served 
 its turn of amusement it takes its position on the shelves as a trust- 
 worthy book of reference, for which its admirable double index of names 
 and places more than sufficiently equips it. Its author, we gather, 
 intends to follow it by a volume dealing with the dwellings of artists 
 and actors, which do not form part of his present enterprise. We can 
 only say that we trust he will lose no time in giving us this indispen- 
 sable complement to what he has already done so conscientiously and 
 successfully. Notes and Queries, London, July 18, 1885.
 
 vi NOTICES OF THE PRESS 
 
 Volumes which at once combine the merits of a work of reference 
 and of a work that affords delightful entertainment by continuous 
 perusal are not common ; but Mr. Laurence Hutton has succeeded 
 in producing one of them. His "Literary Landmarks of London" 
 really contains a series of short biographical sketches of almost all 
 the famous men and women of English literature. It is brief and 
 to the point, yet is enriched with many a quaint story and many 
 a pleasing reminiscence. It is a model of industry. The author has 
 done his best to find out every house in London that was ever asso- 
 ciated with a literary man, and every literary man that ever made his 
 residence in a London house. Commencing with Addison, and finish- 
 ing with Young, he goes through the alphabet. It has been no easy 
 task, as his preface tells us. The constant change in London, the pull- 
 ing down of old houses, the cutting of new thoroughfares, and the 
 renumbering of streets, have necessitated the exercise of great patience 
 in fixing the sites. . . . 
 
 These samples of Mr. Button's work must suffice. In his volume 
 we come across a London, not of fog and dirt and trade and turmoil, 
 but of great minds and immortal names ; a London of learning and 
 poetry, of philosophy and science. Henceforth it ought to be deemed 
 as akin to Athens as it is generally said to be to Babylon. The 
 Literary World, London, July 26, 1885. 
 
 Mr. Laurence Hutton's "Literary Landmarks of London" is an at- 
 tempt to identify the houses in London where famous literary men 
 have lived, or lounged, or worked. This is a much more difficult task 
 than might be expected, because streets have been again and again re- 
 named and renumbered ; but Mr. Hutton has been very careful and 
 painstaking, and has succeeded in making his rather novel kind of 
 guide-book surprisingly full and complete. As far as we have tested 
 it, it seems also to be accurate. The Contemporary Review, London, 
 Augwt, 1885. 
 
 Mr. Hutton gives the information which he has here collected in 
 alphabetical order, and without much effort to invest it with literary 
 attraction. This, perhaps, is quite right, considering the plan of the 
 book. If the writer had dealt at all fully with either the character 
 or the biography of the hundreds of literary persons whom he men- 
 tions, his very reasonable limits would soon have been exceeded. It 
 is much to his credit that he resists the temptation. His object is 
 to give topographical details, when these details connect the subjects
 
 NOTICES OF THE PRESS. vii 
 
 of his brief notices with London ; and he very wisely does not go be- 
 yond this purpose. The work is of limited extent ; but it could not 
 be done without a very considerable amount of research, and Mr. Hut- 
 ton must be allowed the credit of having done it in a complete fashion. 
 An instance of his manner of treatment may be given. He comes in 
 the course of his work to the name of Laurence Sterne. Now, it 
 would have been easy to say a great deal about Sterne, but Mr. Hut- 
 ton keeps strictly to his subject. "Sterne," he says, "saw but little 
 of London." In 1760 he lodged in Pall Mall for about three months. 
 He occupied in subsequent seasons various lodgings which cannot be 
 identified. In 1768 he died at 41 Old Bond Street, "over the silk- 
 bag shop." Whether the house now thus numbered is the real No. 41 
 seems doubtful. He was buried in ' ' the new burying-ground in Ty- 
 burn," from which, it is said, his body was stolen and sold to the 
 professor of anatomy at Cambridge, in whose dissecting-room it was 
 recognized by a friend. Would it not be well, by the way, to throw 
 this disused burial-ground open ? Tlie Spectator, London, Aug. 1, 
 1885. 
 
 It would be difficult to praise Mr. Hutton too highly for the spirit 
 in which he has conceived his design, and for the thoroughness with 
 which he has carried it out. Not content with collecting the occa- 
 sional references of his predecessors, he has cheerfully undertaken the 
 double drudgery of verifying their statements (wherever possible), by 
 means of contemporary documents, and by tracing the succession of 
 bricks and mortar down to the year 1885. He has thus written not 
 only for the present but also for the future. . . . Our children will 
 therefore be grateful to Mr. Hutton for commemorating in each case 
 the result of his own inspection of every historic house, its condition, 
 and its present name and number. And we ourselves thank him for 
 having incalculably augmented the value of his book for use by two 
 exhaustive indexes, the one of names, the other of places. The 
 Academy, London, Aug. 8, 1885.
 
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 Stones. By WASHING- 
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 Its Nature, Development, and Attributes. 
 By JOHN STUTTARD. Dedicated to Sir 
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 T5ir/-1'e NJ^et- anc ^ other Sermons for Children of all 
 
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 Introductory Chapter dedicated to the Boys of England. 
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 1. Mademoiselle IXC. By LANOE FALCONER. ^^ 
 
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