[40] It is told in considerable detail in a ‘Life of Sir Walter Raleigh,’ 8vo., 1740, p. 152.
[41] ‘I remember one citizen, who having thus broken out of his house in Aldersgate Street, or thereabout, went along the road to Islington. He attempted to have gone in at the Angel Inn, and after that at the White Horse, two inns still known by the same signs, but was refused; after which he came to the Pied Bull, an inn also still continuing the same sign.’—‘Journal of the Plague Year,’ by Daniel Defoe, 1722.
[42] This was probably one of the ducking-ponds.
[43] Its site is also marked in Ogilby’s Map of London to Holyhead. Here is now the Belvidere Tavern.
[44] Peter Cunningham says that Alderman Boydell, before he removed to No. 90, Cheapside, at the corner of Ironmonger Lane, lived at the Unicorn, at the corner of Queen Street, Cheapside.
[45] ‘Historic Devices, Badges, and War Cries,’ by Mrs. Bury Palliser.
[46] Another record of him is a stone from Allhallows Church, now imbedded in the western wall of the Church of St. Mary-le-Bow, which has on it the well-known lines by Dryden, beginning: ‘Three poets in three distant ages born,’ etc., also the dates of Milton’s birth and baptism.
[47] Additional MS. in British Museum, 3890.
[48] In a ‘Brief History’ by Eugenius Philalethes, p. 93, we are told; ‘It is a vulgar error that the pelican turneth her beak against her breast and therewith pierceth it till the blood gush out, wherewith she nourisheth her young; whereas a pelican hath a beak broad and flat, much like the slice of apothecaries and chirurgeons wherewith they spread their plasters, no way fit to pierce, as Laurentius Gerbertus counsellor and physitian to Henry the Fourth of France in his book of Popular Errors hath observed.’
[49] The architect was Sir Robert Taylor, R.A. The emblematic figures on the cornice in front are said to be of artificial stone, executed at Coade’s factory, Lambeth, where John Bacon, R.A., worked for some years, and where, later, Flaxman and Benjamin West also modelled. Some houses on the north side of Westminster Bridge Road were originally called Coade’s Row, and the name still appears on one of them. The gallery or showroom stood there, as marked in Horwood’s map. The factory was further north, between Narrow Wall and the river.