Haunted London

by Walter Thornbury

Abingdon, Mrs., “Nosegay Fan,” [318]
Adam, the Brothers, their design, [96];
joke against their Scotch workmen, [103]
Adam, Robert, death and funeral of, [104]
Addison, the “Cato” of, [311];
Booth’s representation of “Cato,” ib.
Adelphi, site of the, [97];
the residence of Garrick, ib.;
Johnson and Boswell at, [98];
prowlers in its arches, [448]
Adelphi Rooms, the, [449]
Adelphi Theatre, first success of, [180];
Terry and Yates as its lessees, ib.;
appearance of “Jim Crow” in, ib.;
the elder Mathews manager of, ib.;
last great successes at, [185]
Akenside, at Tom’s Coffee-house, [38]
Albemarle, Duke of. See [Monk]
Albemarle, Duchess of, [93];
anecdotes of, [301]
“All the Year Round,” [170]
Ambassador, Spanish, attack of an anti-Catholic mob on his house, [277]
Ambassadors, French and Spanish, affray between the retainers of, [134]
Amiens, proclamation of peace of, [18]
Anderson, Dr. Patrick, his Scotch pills, [53];
story of Sir Walter Scott relating to, ib.
Anne of Denmark, her masques and masquerades in Somerset House, [58];
accident at the funeral of, [195]
Anstis, John, Garter King at Arms, [43]
Antiquaries, Society of, [70]
Apollo Court and Room, [6]
Armstrong, Sir Thomas, [11]
Arnold, Dr., and the Lyceum, [171]
Art, English, institutions for promoting, [75]
Arts, the Society of, its place of meeting, [99];
Barry’s paintings, [100], [449];
premiums and bounties distributed by, ib.;
Barry at work on its frescoes, [101];
foundation and object of, [449];
Barry’s application to, ib.
Artists’ Club in Clare Market, [346]
Arundel House, Strand, [39];
occupants of, [40];
death of the Countess of Nottingham in, [41];
the Marquis of Rosney’s description of, ib.;
Thomas Howard’s treasures of art in, [42];
neglect of antiquities in, ib.;
rooms lent to the Royal Society in, [43];
streets erected on the site of, ib.;
Gay’s remarks on its glories, ib.
Arundel Street, Strand, its residents, [43], [164]
Astronomical Society, [71]
“Athenæum” (Newspaper), [170]
Atterbury, Bishop, [155]
Bacon, Lord, his ingratitude, [32];
birthplace of, [127];
events of his life connected with York House, [127-8];
anecdotes of his early life, [128];
verses addressed to him at Durham House, [129];
his early legal studies, [130]
Balmerino, Lord, an anecdote of, [234]
Baltimore, Lord, infamous conduct of, [176]
Banks. See [Coutts], [Child], and [Drummond]
Bannister, Jack, [325]
Barrow, Dr. Isaac, the death of, [232]
Barry, his violence, [101];
his diligence at work, ib.;
his paintings in the Council Room of the Society of Arts, ib.;
effect produced by his paintings, [449];
his poverty and death, ib.
Barry, Mrs., her theatrical career, [433]
Barry, Spanger, an actor, [315]
Basing House, an adventure at, [279]
Beard, singer and actor, [249]
Beauclerk, Topham, [98]
Beaufort, House, Strand, [83], [447]
Beckett, Andrew, works of, [99]
Beckett, Thomas, bookseller, [99]
Bedford, the Earls of, the old town house of, [185];
streets named after his family, ib.
Bedford Street once fashionable, [186];
Half Moon Tavern in, ib.;
residents of, [187];
Constitution Tavern in, [197]
Bedfordbury, [236], [459]
Beefsteak Club, [172];
badge of, ib.;
members of, [173];
Peg Woffington, president of one at Dublin, ib.;
another started by Rich and Lambert, ib.;
its place of meeting, ib.;
distinguished members of, [454];
sale of its effects, [174]
Bell, Mr. Jacob, [225]

Bellamy, George Anne, actress, [317]
Berkeley, Dr., [155]
Bermudas, the Justice Overdo’s allusion to, [235]
Berties, the, [417]
Betterton, the “Garrick” of his age, [433];
the parts he represented, ib.;
his death, ib.
Betty, Master, [321]
Billington, Mrs., [333]
Bindley, James, father of the Society of Antiquaries, his burial-place, [164]
Birch, Dr., the antiquary, [36];
his books and literary remains, [48];
Dr. Johnson’s remark on, ib.
Birkenhead, Sir John, [245]
Bishop, operas produced by, [334]
Black Jack, [348], [440]
Blake, the mystical painter, [83]
Blemund’s Ditch, [353]
Bohemia, the Queen of, [293];
reports concerning, [295];
Sir Henry Wotton’s lines to, ib.;
memorial of her husband, [296]
Boleyn, Anne, at Temple Bar, [21]
Bonomi, [78]
Booksellers, their shops the haunts of wits and poets, [219]
Booth, Barton, [311]
Boswell, James, admitted into the Literary Club, [17];
the supposed Shaksperean MSS., [47].
Bowl-yard, its name, [373]
Boydell, Alderman, [258]
Bracegirdle, Mrs., [49];
her abduction, [50];
her charity, [347];
her popularity, [434]
Braham, John, [333]
Bristol, Earl of, [264];
particulars concerning, [459]
Britain’s Bourse. See [Exchange]
Brocklesby, Dr. Richard, friend of Burke and Johnson, [45];
attends Lord Chatham when he fainted in the House of Lords, ib.
Brougham, Lord, [396]
Buckingham, the first Duke of, [130];
his residences, ib.;
patronage of art, [131];
Dryden’s lines on, [132];
Pope’s lines on, ib.;
Clarendon’s view of his character, [133]
Buckingham, the second Duke of, [133]
Buckingham Street, [135];
distinguished residents in, [136], [137];
Mr. David Copperfield’s visit to, [451]
Bull’s Head, the, Clare Market, [346]
Burgess, Dr., a witty preacher, [159];
successors of, ib.
Burleigh, Lord, his residence, [179]
Burleigh Street, site of, [179]
Burley, Sir Simon, [218]
Burnet, Bishop, [44]
Burton St. Lazar, [350]
Bushnell, John, the sculptor, [7], [8]
Butcher Row, [148];
Lee’s death in, [150]
“Cabinet” Newspaper, see “Pic-Nic”
Caermarthan, Lord, [136]
Cameron, Dr., burial place of, [120]
Canary House, [452]
Canning, George, [395]
Carey Street, [428]
Carlini, [65]
Carlisle, the Countess of, [178]
Catherine of Braganza, [61];
her return to Portugal, [62]
Catherine Street, its newspapers and theatre in, [166];
Gay’s description of, ib.
Cavalini Pietro, works attributed to, [203]
Cavendish, William, Earl of Devonshire, [90]
Cecil, Robert, Earl of Salisbury, [89], [153]
Cecil Street, its residents, [88]
Celeste, Madam, [184]
Centlivre, Mrs., [230];
her hatred to the Jacobites, [231];
Pope’s dislike to, ib.;
Leigh Hunt’s treatment of, [232]
Ceracchi, Giuseppe, [66]
Chambers, Sir William, [65]
Chapone, Mrs. Hester, [428]
Charing, village of, [201];
population under Edward I., ib.;
the Falconry or Mews at, [218]
Charing Cross, tradition concerning, [201];
Peele’s lines on, [202];
tradition of Queen Eleanor connected with, ib.;
erection and demolition of, [204];
a Royalist ballad on, ib.;
executions at, [205];
introduction of Punch into England at, [208];
Titus Oates, in the pillory at, ib.;
the royal statue at, [209];
Waller’s lines on the statue, [210];
Andrew Marvell’s lines on the Cross, [211];
loss of parts of, [212];
a tradition concerning, ib.;
the pedestal of, ib.;
a rogue exposed in the pillory at, ib.;
punishment of Japhet Crook at, [213];
old prints of, [215];
poetical eulogiums of, ib.;
coffee-houses in the neighbourhood of, [226];
Locket’s ordinary at, [227];
Milton’s lodging at, [232];
other memoranda, [248];
a strange scene at, ib.;
a remark of Dr. Johnson’s on, [234];
site of the post office at, ib.;
ancient hospital at, [235];
former improvements at, ib.;
the “Swan,” and verses by Johnson, [236]
Charing Cross Hospital, [233]
Charles I., letter written by, [58];
his statue at Charing Cross, [209];
strange story regarding the statue of, [212]
Charles II., his progress through London, his coronation, [22];
the two courts in the reign of, [61]
Chatterton, [80];
story concerning, [197]
Chaucer, his marriage, [108];
favours obtained, [109];
royal post held by, [218]
Chesterfield, Earl of, [187]
Child’s Bank, [6]
Christian Knowledge, Society for Promoting, [414], [464]

Chunee, the elephant, [95], [419]
Cibber, Colley, [312];
characters originated by, [316];
his success as actor and manager, ib.
Cibber, Theophilus, his fate, [317];
his wife, ib.
Clare House Court, [298]
Clare Market, [339];
Orator Henley’s appearances in, ib.;
artists’ club at the Bull’s Head in, [346];
Mrs. Bracegirdle’s visits to, [347]
Clarges, John, farrier, [93], [301]
Clarke, William, proprietor of Exeter Change, [177]
Clement’s Inn, [156];
a tradition concerning, ib.;
the hall of, [157];
the New Court and Independent Meeting-house in, [159]
Clement’s, St., Church, improvements round, [152];
general dislike to, ib.;
a ferment in the parish of, [153];
distinguished men baptized and buried in, ib.;
adornments of, [155];
Dr. Johnson’s attendance in, ib.
Clement’s, St., Well, [156];
Cleopatra’s Needle, [145]
Clifton, bridge over the Avon at, [451]
Clifton’s Eating-house, [149]
Clinch, Tom, the highwayman, [373]
Clive, Kitty, [315]
Coaches and coach-stands, [166], [167]
Coal Hole, the, [85]
Cobb, the upholsterer, anecdote of, [258]
Cock and Pye Fields, [356]
Cock Lane ghost, the, [196];
the contriver of, [214]
Cockpit, or Phoenix Theatre, its site, [304];
Puritan violence against, ib.;
its reopening at the Restoration, [305]
Coffee, [36]
Coffee-houses, [36];
mentioned by Steele in the Tatler, ib.
Coleridge, S. T., [170]
Commons, House of, [101]
Congreve, William, [53];
Pope’s declaration regarding, [51];
the successful career of, ib.;
Voltaire’s visit to, ib.;
Curll’s life of, [52]
Congreve, Sir William, [88]
Conway, Lord, memoranda of, [270]
Cooke, George Frederick, [321]
Cooke, T. P., [174]
Cottenham, Lord, [395]
Coutts’s Bank, the strong room of, [86], [87];
the first deposit in, [87];
story of one of the clerks of, ib.;
the site of, and additions to, ib.
Coutts, Thomas, his origin, and marriage, [86];
anecdote of, [448]
Covent Garden, [93]
Covent Garden Theatre and Sheridan, [328]
Coventry, Secretary, [245]
Cowley, enmity of the Royalists to, [115];
occasion of “The Complaint” by, ib.;
beautiful lines by, [116];
his death at Chertsey, ib.
Cox, Bessy, [282]
Craig’s Court, Charing Cross, [227]
Craven, Lord, his life, etc., [294];
miniature Heidelberg erected by, ib.;
his services to the Queen of Bohemia, [295];
patronage of literature, ib.;
employment in King William’s reign, [296];
Miss Benger’s estimate of, ib.;
Quixotic character of, [460]
Craven Buildings, fresco portrait at, [297]
Craven House, [292], [459]
Craven Street, residents of, [139];
diplomatic consultation in, ib.;
epigrams by James Smith and Sir George Rose on it, ib.
“Cries of London,” the, [167]
Crockford, his shop in the Strand, [148];
his club, ib.
Cromwell, Oliver, residences of, [226], [279]
Crook, Japhet, his punishment, [213];
lines by Pope on, [214]
Crouch, Mrs., the singer, [333]
Crowle, bon mot on Judge Page by, [217]
Crown and Anchor, the, [152], [153];
the great room of, [444]
Cumberland, George, Earl of, [120]
Cuper’s Gardens, [43]
Curl, Edmund, [212]
Curtis, Mrs., visits Mrs. Siddons, [91]
Davenant, Lady, [404]
Davenant, the actor, [429]
Davies, Moll, [430]
Dawson, Jemmy, [15]
Denham, Sir John, works written by, [393];
a drunken frolic of, [452]
Denzil Street, [460]
Deptford, and Peter the Great in, [45]
Design, the School of, [446]
De Sully, Duc, [41]
Devereux Court, [36];
duel in, ib.;
death of Marchmont Needham in, [37];
relic of Pope at Tom’s Coffee-house, ib.
Devereux, Robert, Earl of Essex, [28];
Spenser’s relation to, ib.;
his house near the Temple, [29];
his plot against Elizabeth, ib.;
his running a-muck in the City, and flight to Essex Gardens, [30];
his capture and death [31];
his mother and sister, [32];
his crimes, [34]
Devonshire Club, [148]
Dibdin, Charles, his entertainments, [34]
Dickens, Charles, [170];
on Seven Dials and Monmouth Street, [385];
Digby, Sir Kenelm, [241];
Ben Jonson’s lines on, ib.
Dilke, Sir C. Wentworth, [170]
Disraeli, B., [400]
Dobson, Vandyke’s protégé, [200]
Dodd, the actor, [328]
Doggett, the actor, [310]
Donne, Dr., the tomb of his wife, [154];
his want of self-respect, [289];
strange circumstance recorded, [290];
vision seen by, ib.;
conceits of, [291];
his picture in his shroud, [292];
a divine and a poet, [390]
Dowton, the actor, [323]
Doyley, [168]
Drinking-fountains, the first, [445]
Drummond’s Bank, [227], [457]
Drury family, [288]
Drury House, secret meetings there arranged by Essex, [29];
outbreak decided on at, [288];
site of, [237]
Drury Lane, origin of its name, [288];
residents in, [297] et seq.;
a strange scene in, [298];
a duel in, ib.;
pictures of, [299];
the poor poet’s home in, ib.;
its bad repute during the Regency, [460]
Drury Lane Theatre, [305];
Pepys’s visits to, [306];
scuffle in the king’s presence in, ib.;
distinguished actresses of, [309] et seq.;
plays produced at, ib.;
Garrick’s first appearance at, [313];
Dr. Johnson’s address on its re-opening, [322];
a riot in 1740 in, [324];
Charles Lamb’s description of, [324], [325];
the rebuilding of, [329];
competitive poems for the opening of, [330];
Byron’s opening address at, ib.;
statue over its entrance, ib.;
pecuniary statements relating to, ib.;
revival of its fortunes by Edmund Kean, [331];
Grimaldi at, [334];
various actors of, ib.;
pictures of royalty at, [338];
recent productions at, ib.
Drury, Sir Robert, [288]
Dryden, his lines on the death of Buckingham, [132];
his squabbles with Jacob Tonson, [54];
attack on, [280];
established jokes against, ib.;
Mulgrave’s lines on, [281];
Otway’s defence of, ib.
Dudley, Sir Robert, [369]
Dudley, Duchess of, [369]
Duke Street, [135]
Duke’s Theatre, [429]
Durham House, residents of, [92];
sufferings of the Princess Elizabeth in, ib.;
its last occupants, ib.;
banquets given by Henry VII. at, ib.;

mint established at, [95];
Lady Jane Grey’s marriage in, ib.;
the scene of an old legend, [96];
Raleigh in his turret study at, ib.;
purchased by the brothers Adam, ib.
Durham Street, [91]
Dyot Street, [462]
Eccentrics, club of, [259]
Edward III., [110];
his conduct on the death of John of Gaunt, [114]
Edward VI. at Temple Bar, [21]
Egerton, Lord Chancellor, [391]
Eleanor Cross, model of, [138]
Eleanor, Queen, crosses in memory of, [138], [202];
tombs of, [203];
the preservation of her body, [204]
Elizabeth, Queen, procession on the anniversary of her accession, [9];
adornment of her statue at Temple Bar, [10];
her reception at Temple Bar, [21];
the plot of Essex against, [29];
her relations with Admiral Seymour, [39];
story of the Essex ring, [40];
her favour for Raleigh, [92]
Ellesmere. See [Egerton]
Elliston, Robert William, [326];
stories told of, [327]
Epigram, an, a legacy gained by, [139]
Erskine, Lord, [424]
Essex House, [29];
occupants of, [31];
the Parliamentary general a resident in, [33]
Essex, Robert, Earl of, Ben Jonson’s masque on his marriage, [33];
divorce of his countess, and her marriage with Robert Carr, ib.;
general for the Parliament, ib.;
attempts to seize his papers, [34]
Essex Street, Strand, [25];
residents in, [34];
Johnson’s club at the Essex Head, [35];
Unitarian chapel in, [443];
memoranda of, ib.
Estcourt, [452];
Steele’s compliments to, [180]
Etherage, Sir George, [301];
play by, [431]
Etty, residence of, [136]
Evans’s Hotel, Covent Garden, [460]
Evelyn, John, [134]
“Examiner,” the, [123]
Exchange, the New, [93];
a tragedy in, ib.;
legends about, ib.;
the White Widow, [94];
the walks of, ib.;
a frequenter of, ib.;
its destruction, [95]
Exeter Change, [175];
exhibitions in, ib.;
last tenants of, [176]
Exeter Hall, [178]
Exeter House, [179]
Exeter Place, [261]
Exeter Street, [178]
Faithorne, William, [148]
Fanshawe, Lady, [423]
Fanshawe, Sir Richard, [421]
Farren, Miss, the actress, [318]
Farren, the actor, [335]
Faucit, Helen (Mrs. T. Martin), [337]
“Field” newspaper, [168]
Finch, Lord Chancellor, [265]
Finett, Sir John, [240]
Fletcher, his execution, [14]
Folkes, Martin, [272]
Folly, the, [82]
Foote, the actor, [315]
Fordyce, George, [34]
Fortescue, Judge, [394]
Fortescue, Pope’s lawyer, [37]
Fountain Club, the, [84]
Fountain Court Tavern, [84];
the Coal Hole in, [85]
Fountain, the, King Street, [381]
Franklin, Benjamin, [139];
his landlady and the charitable nun, [275];
extravagance of his fellow-pressmen, [276];
his visit as ambassador of Massachusetts, [277]
Freemasons’ Hall, the, [274]
Friend, Sir John, [13]
Fuseli, [76];
his residence, [259]
Gaiety Theatre, [452]
Gardelle, the artist and murderer, [251]
Garrick, David, [96], [99];
Johnson’s esteem for, ib.;
his “Chinese Festival,” [185], [186];
anecdote of, [273];
Zoffany’s portrait of, [304];
his career, [313];
his first appearance at Drury Lane, ib.;
his varied talent, [314];
appears on the stage with Quin, ib.;
his death, [315]
Gatti’s café, [189]
George, Madame St., [59]
Geological Society, the, [69]
George III., his patronage of art, [73];
his coolness, [338]
George IV., Chantrey’s statue of, [226]
Gerbier, Sir Balthasar, [72]
Gibbons, Grinling, [139]
Gibbons’s Tennis Court, [429]
Gibbs, the architect, [162]
Giles, St., tradition of, [353];
a scurvy worshipper of, [463]
Giles’s, St., ancient toll in, [350];
hospital for lepers in, [350];
death of Sir John Oldcastle in, [351];
the gallows in, [352];
site of the hospital, [353];
the manor of, [352-3];
gradual growth of, [355], [356];
its progress after the Great Fire, [356];
settlement of foreigners in, [357];
its increase in Queen Anne’s reign, ib.;
resort of Irish to, ib.;
entries in the parish records of, ib.;
increase of French refugees in, [357];
relief to well-known mendicants in, [359];
the plague in, [360];
the plague-cart of, ib.;
rates levied in consequence of the plague, [361];
hospital church of, [363];
Dr. Mainwaring rector of, ib.;
new church of, [364];
Dr. Heywood, the rector of, ib.;
celebration of the Restoration in, [365];
church extension in, ib.;
a sexton’s bargain with the rector of, [367];
the Resurrection Gate in the churchyard of, ib.;
churchyard of, [367], [368];
new burial-ground of, [368];
celebrated persons buried in the churchyard of, [369], [370];
the oldest monument in the burial-ground of, [370];
persons relieved in, [371];
erection of the new almshouses and school for, ib.;
Hogarth’s studies and scenes in, [372];
Nollekens Smith’s description of, ib.;
the whipping-stone of, ib.;
the Pound in, [373];
the inns of, [374];
resort of Irish beggars to, [376], [377];
the cellars of, [378];
lodgings in, ib.;
beggars, conjurors, and pickpockets of, [379];
the mendicants of, [381];
low Irish in, [385], [386];
persons connected with several streets in, [463];
the author’s visit with a missionary to houses in, [463]
Giles’s, St., Hospital, criminals at its gate, on their way to Tyburn, [373]
Giraud, his quarrel, [93];
execution, ib.
Globe Theatre, [165]
Glover, Mrs., as an actress, [336]
Godfrey, Sir E., murder of, [61];
residence of, [142]
Godwin, William, [444]
Golden Cross, the, [232]
Goldsmith, Oliver, a quotation of Dr. Johnson’s cleverly capped by, [18];
lines on Caleb Whitefoord by, [141];
his friends, [197];
an earl’s patronage of, [198];
anecdote of, ib.;
his visit to Northumberland House, ib.
Gondomar, Spanish ambassador, [298]
Goodman, and the Drury Lane Company, [308]
Gordon, Lord George, [278]
Gorges, Sir Ferdinand, [30]
Graham, Dr., a London Cagliostro, his rooms and their chief priestess, [102];
his “celestial bed” and “elixir of life,” [103]
Grange Inn, [440]
Gravelot, the drawing-master, [250]
Gray’s Inn, Bacon’s chambers in, [130]
Grecian, the, Addison’s description of, [36];
a quarrel at, ib.;
meetings of savans at, [37];
the privy-council held at, ib.
Greenhill, John, [271]
Green Ribbon Club, the, [8]
Gresham College, [68]
Grimaldi at Drury Lane, [334]
Gwynn, Nell, her last resting-place, [244];
the birthplace, life, and character of, [301];
a descendant of, [302];
Pepys’s allusion in his “Diary” to, ib.;
her death, ib.;
a memorandum of Evelyn’s regarding, ib.;
Pepys’s estimate of the other actresses associated with, [307];
her last original part, [308]
Hackman, the Rev. Mr., the murderer of Miss Ray, [160];
his execution, ib.
Haines, Joe, a clever actor, [308]
Hale, Sir Matthew, an eminent student of Lincoln’s Inn, [390]
Hare, the murderer, the lamentable condition of, [461]
Harley, John Pritt, actor, [336]
Harrison, General, the Anabaptist, the brave end of, [205]
Haverhill, William de, Henry III.’s treasurer, his mansion and the various uses to which it was put, [388]
Haycock’s Ordinary, [443]
Haydon, anecdote of, [1];
another, of his early life in London, [77]
Hayman, Frank, a St. Martin’s Lane worthy, amusing anecdotes of, [255]
Haymarket Theatre, the, Fielding’s “Tom Thumb” brought out at, [438]

Hazlitt, William, his criticism of the elder Mathews, [182]
Heber, Bishop, [397]
Helmet Court, memoranda of, [447]
Hemings’ Row, St. Martin’s Lane, origin of its name, [458]
Henderson, the actor, [319]
Henley, Orator, sketch of his life, [339];
his defence of action in a preacher, ib.;
his correspondence with William Whiston, [340];
the shameless advertisements issued by, [340], [341];
lines by Pope in the “Dunciad” on, [342];
his controversy with Pope, ib.;
a contemporary description of, ib.;
his plans for raising money, [343];
a joke on Archbishop Herring by, ib.;
his appearance before the privy-council, ib.;
Hogarth’s two caricatures of, [344];
beginning of one of his sermons, [345];
overawed by two Oxonians, [346]
Henrietta Maria, queen of Charles I., the insolent conduct of her French household, and the king’s difficulty in getting rid of them, [58];
her last masques at Somerset House, [59]
Henry VII., hospital founded on the site of the Savoy by, [114]
Herbert, Lord, of Cherbury, a Quixotic quarrel of, [194];
commencement of his work, “De Veritate,” [265];
a remarkable vision which is said to have appeared to, ib.;
reflections on passing the residence of, [266]
Herring, Archbishop, Swift’s opposition to, [344]
Hewson, the supposed original Strap of “Roderick Random,” [136]
Heywood, Dr., rector of St. Giles’s, Puritan petition against, [365]
Hill, Captain, a well-known profligate bully, his drunken jealousy of Mountfort the actor, [49];
his attempt to carry off Mrs. Bracegirdle, [50];
cowardly murder of Mountfort, by, [51]
Hill, Mr. Thomas, the supposed prototype of Paul Pry, [103]
Hilliard, Nicholas, Queen Elizabeth’s miniature-painter, [244]
“Histriomastix,” the, Prynne’s punishment for a scurrilous note in, [59]
Hodges, Dr., his account of the commencement and progress of the plague, [262]
Hogarth, [72];
his picture of “Noon,” [372]
Hog Lane, St. Giles’s (now Crown Street), [371]
Holborn, gradual extension and first pavement of, [355];
allusions to a doleful procession up the Heavy Hill of, [374]
Hollar, the German engraver, description of a scarce view of Somerset House by, [63];
the residence of, [157]
Holmes, Copper, a well-known character on the river, [247]
Holy Land, the, a part of St. Giles’s, [386]
Hone, Nathaniel, [258]
Hood, Thomas, his “Bridge of Sighs,” [450]
Hook, Theodore, [102]
Howard, Lady Margaret, Sir John Suckling’s fantastic simile in lines on her feet, [195]
Howard, Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, discovery of the cipher used by—his treason and death, [27]
Howard, Thomas, Earl of Arundel, an amateur of art, Clarendon’s description of, [42];
Vansomer’s portrait of, ib.;
his devotion in the pursuit of objects of art, [43];
disposal of his statues, marbles, and library, ib.;
remarks made by him in a dispute with Charles I., ib.
Howard, Philip, Earl of Arundel, a letter to, [27];
memorial in the Tower of, ib.
Hudson, the portrait-painter, [272]
Hungerford, Lord Walter, first Speaker of the House of Commons, [137]
Hungerford, Sir Edward, founder of Hungerford Market, [137]
Hungerford Market, the site of, [137];
the origin and object of, [138];
vicissitudes of, ib.;
an unlucky speculation at, ib.
Hungerford Suspension Bridge, [138];
the purchase of, [451];
the new railway bridge in place of, [138];
the railway station at, ib.
Hunter, Dr. William, O’Keefe’s description of him lecturing on anatomy, [78]
Hunter, Dr. John, particulars of his professional life, [420], [421]
Hunt, Leigh, the imprisonment of, [123];
his critical remarks on the elder Mathews, [182]
“Illustrated London News,” the proprietor and staff of, [55]
Ingram, Mr. Herbert, proprietor of the “Illustrated London News,” career and death of, [55]
Ireland, Samuel, father of the celebrated literary impostor, the residence of, [46];
his belief in the genuineness of “Vortigern” as a work of Shakspere’s, [47]
Ireland, W. H., the true story of the Shakspere forgery committed by, [46];
effect of the extraordinary praise lavished on, [47];
supporters and opponents of, ib.;
damnation of his play of “Vortigern,” ib.
“Isabella,” Southerne’s tragedy of, effect of Mrs. Siddons’s acting in, [91]
Ivy Bridge, narrow passage to the Thames under, and mansion near, [91]
Jacobites, the cant words used by, [15]
James I., pageants on his passage through the city, [21]

James Street, Adelphi, No. 2, the residence of Mr. Thomas Hill, the Hull of “Gilbert Gurney,” [103]
Jansen, an architect, works by, [191]
Jekyll, Sir Joseph, his obnoxious bill, and the fury of the mob against, [410];
his bon-mot on Lord Kenyon’s spits, [423]
Jennings, Frances. See [Widow, the White]
Jerdan, William, [83]
John, King of France, his entrance as a captive into London, [112];
his honourable return to England after having been liberated on parole, ib.;
his death at the Savoy, ib.
John of Padua, Henry VIII.’s architect, [57]
John, Saint, the foundation of the hospital of, [114];
abuses of, transference of its funds, etc., [115];
Dr. John Killigrew appointed master of, ib.;
Strype’s description of the old hall of, [117]
John Street, Adelphi, [99]
Johnson, Dr., his conversation with Goldsmith on Westminster Abbey, [17];
club formed at the Essex Head by—its principal members, [35];
his high estimation for Garrick, [97];
Garrick’s remark on the philosopher’s friendship for Beauclerk, [98];
his three reasons for the black skin of the negro race, [149];
an Irishman’s opinion of, ib.;
his pleasant evenings at the Mitre with an old college friend, [150];
Boswell’s account of his solemn devotion during divine service, [155];
extract from a letter written to Mrs. Thrale by, [156];
his first residence in London, [178];
an eccentric habit of, [187];
beginning of his address for the re-opening of Drury Lane Theatre, [322]
Johnstone, Irish, [335]
Jones, Colonel, his execution, [205]
Jones, Inigo, his plan for laying out Lincoln’s Inn Fields, [402]
Jones, the actor, [323]
Jonson, Ben, dialogues, speeches, and masques by, [22], [33];
his residence when a child, [142];
a story of, [251];
early life of, [399];
tradition of, ib.;
his exploit in Flanders, ib.
Jordan, Mrs., [326]
Kauffman, Angelica, [76]
Kean, Charles, [338]
Kean, Mrs. Charles (Miss Ellen Tree), [338]
Kean, Edmund, habits of, [85];
his early success in London, [88];
his origin, early life, and first triumphs in London, [331];
Hazlitt’s remarks on, [332]
Keeley, Robert, the actor, [337]
Keelings the, [405]
Kelly, Michael, [334]
Kelly, Miss, actress, [336];
attacks on, ib.
Kemble, Charles, [321]
Kemble, John, [320];
generous act of the Duke of Northumberland to, ib.;
Leigh Hunt’s picture of, ib.
Kenilworth, Lord of, [28]
Kennington Common, execution of Jacobites on, [14]
Kensington, South, transfer of pictures from the National Gallery to, [224]
Kent, the rising under Wat Tyler, [112]
Kenyon, Lord, jokes on, [423];
his stinginess and bad Latin, ib.
Killigrew, Dr. Henry, [119]
Killigrew, Mrs. Anne, [119]
Killigrew, Thomas, [119];
actors in his company, [308]
King, Dr., Principal of St. Mary’s Hall, Oxford, [36]
King, Dr. William, lines on the Beefsteak Club by, [174]
King, the original Sir Peter Teazle, [321]
King’s College and its museum, [66], [447];
models and instruments presented by Queen Victoria, ib.
King’s College Hospital, [438]
Kirby, Mr., [73], [74]
Kit Cat Club, [51];
institution of the, [85];
origin of its name, ib.;
the summer rendezvous of, [86];
Lady Mary Wortley Montague the toast of, ib.
Kneller, Sir Godfrey, [72];
his life and character, [267];
the witty banter of, [268];
his vanity, [269];
how Jacob Tonson got pictures out of, ib.;
his conviction of the legitimacy of the Pretender, ib.
Knight Templars, the, [25]
Knollys, Lettice, Countess of Essex, afterwards Lady Leicester, [31]
Knowledge, Christian, the Society for Promoting, [461]
Königsmark, Count, [193]
Kynaston, Sir Francis, [71], [187]
Kynaston, the actor, [187], [432]
Lacy, a favourite actor, [308]
Laguerre, the French painter, [246]
Lamb, Charles, tragedy in his family, [285];
his devotion to his sister, [286]
Lancaster, the Earl of, [107]
Lancaster, John, Duke of, favours Wickliffe, [109];
his peril from the London mob, [110];
his escape, ib.;
amende of the Londoners to, ib.;
his marriage and connections, ib.;
his unpopularity and violence, [119];
clause aimed by Wat Tyler against, [112];
destruction of his London palace, etc., [113];
his death and burial, [114]

Lancaster, the Duchy of, [122], [450]
Lander, Richard, [120]
Langhorne, Dr., [396]
Law Courts, new, [147]
“Law Times,” Office, [168]
Layer, Christopher, [17]
Learning, Society for the encouragement of, [49]

Lee, the poet, his death, [154]
Lepers, [354]
Lewis, the comedian, [274];
his acting, [323], [324]
Lillie, Charles, the perfumer, [84]
Limput, Remigius van, [187]
Liston, the comedian, [323]
Lincoln’s Inn, origin of its name, [387];
the Chancery Lane side of, [388];
the gateway of, ib.;
the chapel, [388], [389];
distinguished students of, [390] et seq.;
persons buried in the chapel, [392] et seq.;
old customs and laws of, [397], [398];
disposal of Hogarth’s picture, “Preaching before Felix,” at, [398];
the new hall, library, and garden of, ib., [464];
Mr. Disraeli’s studies at, [400]
Lincoln’s Inn Field, part of Fickett’s field, [401];
King James regulates building in, [401], [402];
Inigo Jones’s plan for laying out and building, [402];
state in the time of Charles I. and Charles II.;
Gay’s sketch of its dangers, [403];
Earl of Rochester’s house in, [404];
execution of plotters against Elizabeth in, ib.;
procession of Thomas Sadler, the thief, through, ib.;
Lord Russell’s death in, [405];
improvements in 1735 in, [410];
Macaulay’s picture of, ib.;
distinguished inhabitants of, [414] et seq.;
Tennyson’s chambers in, [418];
Mr. Povey’s house in, [428]
Lindsey, Earl, [416], [417]
Lindsey House, [417]
Literary Club, Boswell and Johnson at, [17]
Literary Fund Society, [427]
Literature, Royal Society of, [259]
Locket’s Ordinary, [227]
London, growth and changes of, [2];
points of departure for tours in, ib.;
start for the author’s tour in, [3];
banks in, [7];
the rebels under Tyler in, [112];
King William at the celebration of the peace of Ryswick in, [23], [24];
a bishop beheaded by the mob of, [26];
cruel treatment of a Spaniard by the mob of, [213];
the street signs of, [237];
foreigners in 1580 in, [356];
a glance at an ancient map of, [356], [357];
Pennant on its churchyards, [367];
crusade against Irish and other vagrants, [377];
royal fears as to its increase, [401];
its history an epitome of that of the world, [441];
its newspapers and periodicals, [454]
Long Acre, the plague in, [262];
Oliver Cromwell’s residence in, [279];
Tory tavern Club in, [284]
Lord Mayor’s Day, [23]
Loutherberg, De, [167]
Lowin, John, [154]
Lyceum, the, [171];
exhibitions in, ib.;
experiment in, [172];
Mathew’s entertainment in, ib.;
Beefsteak Club meet in, ib.;
Mr. T. P. Cooke’s early triumphs in, [174]
Lyndhurst, Lord, [395]
Lyons, Emma (afterwards Lady Hamilton), [102]
Lyon’s Inn, [165];
sale of its materials, ib.;
murder of Mr. Weare, ib.
Lyttelton, Sir Thomas, [44]
M’Ardell, Hogarth’s engraver, [251]
Mackintosh, Sir James, [464]
Macklin, the actor, [436]
Macready, William Charles, [337]
Maginn, Dr., ballad by, [232]
Malibran, Madame, [334]
Manos, Gannee, and other beggars, [382]
Mansfield, the Earl of, [394]
Mardyn, Mrs., the actress, [335]
Marlborough, the Duchess of, Congreve’s legacy to, [52];
her regard for Congreve, [53]
Martin’s St., Lane, residents of, [239] et seq.;
Beard, the singer, [249];
Old Slaughter’s Coffee-house, ib.;
houses built by Payne in, [252];
curious staircase in No. [96], [253];
a house favoured by artists in, ib.;
Roubilliac’s first studio in, [257];
old house of the Earls of Salisbury in, [256];
changes in, [261]
Martin’s-in-the-Fields, St., [242];
the church of, [244];
the dust enshrined in, ib.;
J. T. Smith’s visit to the vaults of, [246];
the parochial abuses of, ib.;
the old watch and stocks of, [256]
Marvell, Andrew, [209];
the grave of, [370]
Mary, Queen, [21]
Mary, St. Savoy, the Chapel of, the dead interred in, [121];
its destruction by fire, [122];
its restoration, ib.
Mary, St., Roncevalles, the hospital of, [235]
Mary-le-Strand, St., [162];
construction of, ib.;
allusions by Pope and Addison to, [163];
tragedy at, ib.;
interior of, ib.
Mathews, his entertainment, [140];
his “Mail-coach Adventures,” [172];
his bargains with Mr. Arnold, [181];
his various entertainments, ib.;
failure of his health, and death, [182];
his first attempts as an actor, [298];
his first appearance in London, [323]
Matthews, Bishop of Durham, [98]
Mayerne, Sir Theodore, [239];
story of, [240];
his death, [260]
Maynard, Mr. Serjeant, [404]
Mainwaring, Dr., [363], [364]
Maypole in the Strand, the, [160];
its fall and restoration, [161];
removal of, [162]
May’s Buildings, [259]
Mellon, Miss, the actress, [87];
her first and second marriages, [88];
her first appearance at Drury Lane, [448];
leaves her fortune to Miss Burdett Coutts, ib.
Mendicants’ Convivial Club, [462]
Mews, origin of the name, [217];
notes concerning, [218];
old bookshop at the gate of one, [219]

Michael’s, St., Alley, Cornhill, [36]
Milford Lane, [38]
Millar, the publisher, [56]
Miller, Joe, his burial-place, [348];
his début on the stage, [439];
his last success, ib.;
his haunt, [440]
Milton, John, [232]
Misaubin, Dr., [253]
Mitre, the, [150]
Mohun, Lord, [50], [245]
Monk, General, his death, [65];
the Restoration effected by, [61];
his vulgar wife, [301];
invited to a conference by the Earl of Northumberland, [200]
Monmouth Street, [385];
Mr. Dickens’s description of, ib.;
modern civilisation in, [463]
Montague, Lady M. W., [86]
Montfort, Simon de, [107]
More, Sir Thomas, [164]
Morgan, the Welsh buccaneer, [264]
Morley’s Hotel, [456]
“Morning Chronicle,” [167];
the end of, [168]
“Morning Post,” [170]
Mortimer, the English Salvator, [46]
Moss, the engraver, [63]
Mottley, the actor, [439];
origin of his jest book, [440]
Mountfort, Mrs., [434]
Mountfort, the actor, [50];
his career, [435]
Munden, Charles Lamb on, [327]
Murphy, Arthur, [394]
Murray, Major, [143]
Mytens, Daniel, [240]
National Gallery, opening of, [219];
the paltry design of, [75];
the first purchase of pictures for, [222];
the gems of, [223], [224];
purchases and donations for, ib.;
Turner’s bequest to, [224];
proposed removal of the pictures from, ib.;
Jacob Bell’s bequest, [225];
enlargement of the, ib.
Needham, Marchmont, [37];
his burial-place, [155]
Nelson, Admiral, a tradition of, [71]
Nelson Column, the, original estimate for, [220];
bassi relievi on, ib.;
adornment of the pedestal of, [221]
Newcastle, the Duke of, his house in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, [410];
his levees, ib.;
the porter’s reply to an intruder on, [411];
impertinence of his cook, [412];
anecdote of, ib.;
Smollett’s and Walpole’s sketches of, [413];
Walpole’s review of his career, ib.;
his reply to Lord Bute, [414]
Newgate ballads, [463]
New Inn, [164]
Newspaper offices, [454]
Nisbett, Mrs., [335]
Nivernois, the Duc de, [18]
Nokes, James, [432]
Nollekens, the sculptor, [379]
Norfolk Street, [44] et seq.;
Charles Dickens’s sketch of, [445]
Northampton, the Earl of, [191]
Northampton, Algernon, tenth Earl of, [192], [195]
Northumberland, the wizard Earl of, his marriage [192];
treason, etc., ib.
Northumberland, the Duke of, [192]
Northumberland House, [191];
the oldest part of, [195];
accident at, ib.;
the letters and date on its façade, [196];
destruction of the Strand front by fire, [197];
Sir John Hawkins’s and Goldsmith’s visit to Mr. Percy at, [198];
Goldsmith’s account of a visit to, [199];
pictures in the gallery of, ib.
Northumberland Street, [142];
demolition of, [200]
Nottingham, the Countess of, [39], [40]
Noy, Attorney-general, [389]
Oates, Titus, [208], [302]
O’Keefe, the dramatist, [18], [258]
Oldcastle, Sir John, Lord Cobham, [352];
his imprisonment, escape, and death, ib.
Oldfield, Mrs., actress, [186];
her merits as a comedian, [310];
her death, [311]
“Old Slaughter’s,” the frequenters of, [249];
Hogarth and Roubilliac at, ib.
Olympic, the, [164];
Mr. Robson’s representations at, [165]
Oratory, Henley’s, [339]
Oxberry, the actor, [335]
Oxburgh, Sir John, [13]
Oxford, the Earl of, [137]
Page, Judge, [217];
the “Dunciad” on, ib.
Paget, Lord, [26]
Paintings, the first exhibition in London of, [75]
Palsgrave Head Tavern, [148], [151]
Parr, Dr., [47]
Parr, Old, [91]
Parsons, parish-clerk of St. Sepulchre’s, [214]
Partridge, the charlatan cobbler, [90]
Pasquin (Williams), Anthony, [142]
Patterson, Samuel, bookseller, [34]
Payne, Mr. James, collector of MSS., [459]
Payne, Roger, bookbinder, [457]
Pendrell, Richard, his tomb and epitaph, [368]
Penn, the Quaker, [44]
Pepys, residence of, [135];
his career, [136];
residence of his father-in-law, [282];
visits Drury Lane Theatre, [302];
Lord Cottenham, a descendant of the author of the “Diary,” [395]
Perceval, Spencer, [394]
Percy, the Earl Marshal, [109]

Percy, Elizabeth, her marriages, [192]
Perkins, Sir William, [12]
Perry, James, [167]
Pest-houses, [297]
Peter the Great, [45];
his evenings in York Buildings, [136]
Peters, Hugh, [207]
Petty, William, [42]
Philips, Ambrose, [248];
Pope’s lines on, ib.
Physicians, the Royal College of, [225]
Pickett, Alderman, [148];
street named after, [147]
“Pic-Nic,” the, London newspaper, [139]
Pidgeon, Bat, barber, [160]
Pierce, Edward, sculptor, [49]
Pine, the engraver, [252]
“Pine Apple,” the, [178]
Plague, the Great, [143];
its origin in London, [262];
its progress, [263]
Poitiers, the victory of, [111]
Pope, the, [9]
Pope, a relic of, [37];
lines on the death of Buckingham by, [132];
insolence of, [248];
reply of Sir Godfrey Kneller to, [268];
his dispute with Orator Henley, [342]
Pope, Miss, the actress, [273];
her manner on the stage, [321]
Porridge Island, [236]
Porter, Mrs., the actress, [43]
Portugal Row, [403], [421]
Portugal Street, [429] et seq.
Precinct of the Savoy, [122]
Precinct Club, the, [169]
Prior, his boyhood, [229];
his attachments, [282];
his death, [283]
Pritchard, Mrs., actress, [317]
Proctor, student of the Royal Academy, [80]
Prynne, William, [398]
Punch, the puppet-show, [208]
“Punch,” the periodical, [303]
Quakers, the, [44]
“Queen” newspaper, [168]
Queen Street, Great, [263];
residents in, [264] et seq.;
residence of Lord Herbert of Cherbury in, [266]
Quin, the actor, [187], [271];
appears on the stage with Garrick, [312];
his career as an actor, ib.;
appears at Portugal Street Theatre, [437]
Radcliffe, Dr., [347]
Radford, Thomas, [93]
Railton, designer of the Nelson Memorial, [220]
Raimbach, the engraver, [258]
Raleigh, Sir Walter, [92];
Durham House unjustly taken from, [96];
costly dress worn by, ib.
Rann, John, “Sixteen-stringed Jack,” [374]
Rawlinson, Dr., [16]
Ray, Miss, murder of, [160]
Rebecca, Biaggio, [76]
Reddish, Samuel, the actor, [318]
Reeve, John, [184]
Rejected Addresses, the, [140]
Rennie, John, architect, [124]
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, his club in Essex Street, [35];
his adherence to the Spring Garden Society, [73];
his lectures, [83];
lying-in-state of, [79];
residences of, [274]
Rhodes, the bookseller and actor, [233], [305]
Rice, Mr. (“Jim Crow”), [180]
Rich, Penelope, [31]
Rich, the actor and manager, [435];
legend regarding, [436];
Garrick’s lines on, [438]
Richardson, the humourist, [187]
Richmond, the Duke of, his gallery at Whitehall, [72]
Rimbault, the clockmaker, [303]
Rivet, John, a brazier, [212]
Roberts, the solicitor, [143]
Robin Hood Debating Society, [443]
Robinson, Mrs., [318]
Robinson’s Coffee-house, [215]
Robson, Mr. Frederick, [165], [236]
Roman Bath, in the Strand, [169]
Roman Road, ancient, [349]
Romilly, Sir Samuel, [400]
Rookery, the, [463]
Roubilliac, his burial-place, [246];
his studio, [255];
a pupil of, [257]
Royal Academy, the, Somerset House, [65];
the germs of, [71];
its service to English art, [75];
its first officers, [74];
catalogue, etc., [75]
Royal Academicians, the, [74]
Royal Society, the, [68];
its portraits of Newton, and other curiosities, [69]
“Rummer,” the, [229];
the scene of Jack Sheppard’s first robbery, [230]
Russel, Lord William, [285];
his alleged plot, [405];
his appearance before the Council, [406];
his interview with French agents, ib.;
petition presented for his life, [407];
the last days of, ib.;
his execution, [408]
Russel, Lady Rachel, her petition for her husband’s life, [407];
her letter to Dr. Fitzwilliams, [408]
Rutland, the Earls of, [91]
Ryan, the actor, [272]
Rymer, the antiquary, [43], [154]
Saa, Don Pantaleon de, his quarrel with Giraud, [93]
Sacheverell, Dr., [409]
Sadler, Thomas, the thief, [404]
St. Leonards, Lord, [396]
Sala, G. A., [122]
Sale, George, [49]
Salisbury, Earls of, old house of the, [256]
Salisbury House, Little, [89]
Salisbury House, Old, [89]
Salisbury Street, [89]

Sandwich Islands, the king and queen of, [102]
Sandwich, Montague, Earl of, [415]
Savage, Richard, [216];
his escape from execution, ib.
Savage Club, the, [460]
Savoy, Peter, Earl of, [107];
Henry III.’s grant to, ib.;
transfer of his manor to the chapter of Montjoy, [108]
Savoy, the, moonlight meetings in, [106];
derivation of the name of, [107];
occupants of the palace of, [108];
Chaucer’s marriage in, ib.;
the vicissitudes of, [109];
attack of the mob of London on, [110];
a residence of John, King of France, [111];
its destruction by Wat Tyler, [112];
erection of an hospital on its site, [114];
its suppression and removal, [115];
Conference of the Savoy, [116];
a French church in, [117];
a sanctuary for debtors, ib.;
Strype’s description of it, ib.;
clandestine marriages in, [118];
its state in the reign of George II., ib.;
portions of it remaining in 1816, ib.;
the destruction of, [119];
Mr. G. A. Sala’s description of the Precinct of, [122];
traditions still lingering in, [123]
Savoy Street, [116]
Scheemakers, [333]
School of Design, [446]
Serle Street, origin of its name, [464]
Serle’s coffee-house, Addison’s visit to, [464];
a curious letter extant at, ib.
Seven Dials, the, Mr. Dickens’s description of, [385];
Gay’s description of, [461];
the degraded state of, [462]
Seymour, Lord Thomas, [39];
the mint established in aid of his designs, [95]
Seymour, Sir Edward, anecdote of, [234]
Seymour Place. See [Arundel House]
Shadwell, son of the poet, [135]
Shaftesbury, Earl of, [179]
Shallow, the revelry of, [158]
Sheppard, Jack, the burial-place of, [246]
Sheridan, Thomas, [187]
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, produces the “School for Scandal,” [322];
his extravagance, [328];
sang froid exhibited in the House of Commons by, ib.;
his death, [329]
Shipley, Mr., founder of the Society of Arts, [100];
his pupils, ib.
Shippen, “Honest,” [45]
Shipyard, the, gable-ended house in, [148]
Shorter, Sir John, [22]
Siddons, Mrs., [91], [319];
the homage of distinguished men to, [320]
Signs, the suppression of, [237];
adornment of old London by, [238]
Simon, Old, [379-80];
portraits of, [380];
anecdotes of his dog “Rover,” ib.
Singers, theatrical, [333] et seq.
Slaughter’s, Old, [249];
Hogarth and Roubilliac at, ib.
Slaughter’s, New, [253]
Sloane, Sir Hans, [284]
Smith, the brothers, [330]
Smith, James, [139];
epigram by, [140]
Snow, the goldsmith, [151], [443]
Soane, Sir John, [427]
Soane Museum, the, curiosities in, [424];
impediments thrown in the way of visitors to, ib.;
its treasures, [425] et seq.;
its pictures and engravings, [426];
a satire on, [465]
Sœur, Le, French sculptor, [209]
Somerset, the Protector, [57]
Somerset House, [56];
Elizabeth’s visits to Lord Hunsdon in, [58];
Anne of Denmark’s masquerades in, ib.;
pranks of Henrietta Maria’s French household in, ib.;
Puritans offended by Henrietta Maria’s Roman Catholic chapel in, [59];
tombs under the great square of, ib.;
death of Inigo Jones in, ib.;
the celebration of Protestant service in, ib.;
the lying-in-state of Cromwell in, [60];
Pepys’s description of a strange scene in the presence-chamber of, [61];
lying-in-state of Monk, Duke of Albemarle, in, ib.;
the murder of Sir Edmondbury Godfrey, ib.;
Waller made drunk at, [62];
apartments for poor noblemen, ib.;
erection of new Government offices on the site of the old palace of, ib.;
scene witnessed by Pepys at, [63];
old prints of, ib.;
the architect of the modern buildings of, [64];
demolition of the old palace of, ib.;
Edward VI.’s furniture, and Catherine of Braganza’s breakfast room in, ib.;
dimensions of the building completed by Sir William Chambers, [65];
retirement of the Royal Academy to, ib.;
figures on the Strand front of, ib.;
Government clerks and public offices in, [66];
statue and figure in the east wing of, ib.;
office for auditing public accounts in, ib.;
learned societies sheltered in, [67];
distinguished men who must have frequented the halls of, ib.;
a legend of, [71];
a tradition of Nelson at, ib.;
accident during Reynolds’s lecture at, [78];
day-dreams in the great quadrangle of, [81]
Somerset Coffee-house, [446]
Somerset House Stairs, [63]
Southampton Street, [185];
Garrick’s house in, ib.
Sparkes, Isaac, Irish comedian, [274]
“Spectator,” office of the, [124]
Spelman, Lady, [40]
Spelman, Sir Henry, [391]
Spenser, his death and burial, [28]
Spiller, James, comedian, [154];
his death, [438]
Spring Gardens Academy of Art, the, [72];
dissimulation of the king in relation to, [73];
intrigues against, ib.
Stage, the, reform of declamation and costume on, [325];
first appearance of actresses, in London, on, [429]
Stapleton, Walter, his death, [26]
Steele, Sir Richard, his coffee-houses, [36];
his residence, [135];
his allusions to Lincoln’s Inn, [398]
Stone, Nicholas, sculptor, [278]
Storace, operas written by, [334]
Stothard, the artist, sketch of his career, [283]
Strahan and Co., bankers, [151], [451] (note)
Strand, the:—
Essex Street, [25];
Exeter House, [26];
Exeter Place, ib.;
Essex House [29];
Milford Lane, [38];
Devereux Court, ib.;
Arundel House, [39];
Arundel Street, [43];
Norfolk Street, [44];
Surrey Street, [48];
Howard Street, [49];
Strand Lane, [53];
Anderson’s pills in, ib.;
Turk’s Head Coffee-house, ib.;
residence of Jacob Tonson in, [54];
occupants of No. 141, ib.;
office of the “Illustrated London News” in, [55];
Somerset House, [56];
Haydon’s first London lodgings in, [77];
Beaufort House, [83];
the residence of Blake, in, ib.;
office of the “Sun” newspaper, [83];
Coutts’s Bank, [86];
Cecil Street, [88];
Salisbury Street and House, [89];
Mrs. Siddons’s residence in, [91];
Durham Street and House, ib.;
Buckingham Street, [135];
Villiers Street, ib.;
Duke Street, ib.;
York Buildings, ib.;
Hungerford Bridge and Market, [136];
Craven Street, [139];
Northumberland Street, [143];
the strata of, [146];
the footway in Edward II.’s time, [147];
discovery of a small bridge in, ib.;
houses on the north side of, ib. et seq.;
Butcher Row, [148];
Palsgrave Place, [151];
the Maypole in, [160];
St. Clement’s Danes, [152];
a scene of Elizabeth’s time in, [161];
St. Mary’s-le-Strand, [162];
New Inn, [164];
Wych Street, ib.;
Lyon’s Inn, [165];
Catherine Street, [166];
Doyley’s warehouse in, [168];
Wellington Street, ib.;
Lyceum Theatre, [171];
Exeter Change, [175];
familiar sounds to the old residents in, [177];
Exeter Street, [178];
Exeter Hall, ib.;
a resident in, ib.;
Exeter House, [179];
Burleigh Street, ib.;
Adelphi Theatre, [180];
Southampton Street, [185];
Bedford Street, [186];
Gaiety Theatre, [452];
memoranda relating to the south side of, [443];
do. relating to the north side of, [452]
Strand, Bridge, the, [169]
Strand Lane, [53];
mentioned by Addison, [169]
Strand Theatre, [444], [446]
Streets, the nomenclature of, [103]
Strype, the antiquary, [117]
Suckling, Sir John, [195];
his death, [241]
Suett, the actor, [321]
Suffolk House, [194]
Sullivan, Luke, engraver, [251]
“Sun,” office of the, [83]
Surrey Street, [48]
Surgeons, College of, [419]
Swan, the, Charing Cross, [236]
Tart-Hall, [43]
Taylor, the water-poet, [279];
his complaint regarding carriages and tobacco, ib.;
epitaph on, [280]
Tempest, Peter Molyn, engraver, [167]
Temple Bar, its erection, [4];
description of, [5];
threatened destruction of, [6];
fixing the heads of traitors on, [11];
curious print of, [13];
heads of Fletcher, Townley, and Oxburgh, exposed on, ib.;
apprehension of a man for firing bullets at the two last heads exhibited on, [16];
Counsellor Layer’s head blown by a terrible wind from, ib.;
removal of the last iron spike from, [17];
a quotation of Dr. Johnson’s at, ib.;
proclamation of peace at, [18];
its adornment on public occasions, [19];
opening its gates to the sovereign, [20];
reception of Queen Elizabeth at, ib.;
reception of royal persons at, [21];
pageants on the passage of King James, ib.;
the mournful celebrity of, [22]
Temple Club, [453]
Tenison, Dr. Thomas, [247]
Tennyson, Alfred, [418]
Terry, an actor, [183]
Thames, the, scenery on its banks, [136];
embankment of, [190];
old watermen on, [247];
Copper Holme’s ark on, ib.
Theatres, an old custom at, [172];
a riot in one, [186]
Theatre, the Duke’s, [429];
a sword-fight between two factions in, [430];
the principal ladies of, ib.;
Pepys’s visits to, [431];
the principal performers at, [432] et seq.;
plays of Congreve produced at, [434];
Steele’s account of an audience in, [435];
the last proprietor of, ib.;
riot at, [436];
Macklin’s performance at, [437];
Quin’s appearance at, ib.
Thomson, the music-seller, [177]
Thornbury, the Rev. Nathaniel, [47]
Thornhill, Sir James, [72]
Thurloe, Secretary, [392-393]
Thurtell, the murderer of Weare, [165]
Thynne, Tom, [193]
Tillotson, Dr., [390]
Tobacco, introduction of, [96]
Tom’s Coffee-house, [37]
Tonson, Jacob, [54]
Tories, they establish tavern-clubs, [284]
Townley, execution of, [14]
Trafalgar Square, [220];
statues and fountains in, [221], [456]
Trojan Horse, Bushnell’s, [7]
Tunstall, Bishop, [92]
Turk’s Head Coffee-house, [53]
Turk’s Head, Gerrard Street, [72]
Turner, J. W. M., anecdote of, [78];
his opinion of the Thames scenery, [136];
characteristics of his works, [224];
his bequests to the nation, ib.
Tyburn, criminals on their way to, [373]
Tyler Wat, [112];
a mistake of Shakspere regarding, [114] (note)
Tyrconnel, the Duchess of. See [Widow, the White]
Twinings, the Messrs., [35], [152]
Ussher, Archbishop, [396]
Union Club, the, [457]
Vanderbank starts an academy of art, [72]
Vane, Sir Harry, [200]
Vere Street, Clare Market, [345]
Vernon, Robert, [224]
Vertue, [8]
Vestris, Madame, [175]
Via Trinovantica, [349]
Victoria embankment, [191]
“Ville de Paris,” the Olympic Theatre partially built of its timbers, [164]
Villiers Street, [135]
“Vine,” the, in St. Giles’s, [375]
Vine Street, origin of the name, [300]
Vinegar Yard, Drury Lane, [300]
Voltaire rebukes Congreve’s vanity, [52]
“Vortigern,” by W. H. Ireland, [46]
Waagen, Dr., [199]
Waldo, Sir Timothy, [412]
Wallack, the actor, [334]
Waller, the poet, Saville’s saying of, [62];
lines by, [210]
Wallis, Albany, residence of, [46]
Walpole, a circumstance to surprise, [78];
visits the Cock Lane ghost, [196]
Warburton, Bishop, [397]
Ward, Dr., inventor of “Friar’s Balsam,” disposal of his statue by Carlini, [100];
attends on George II., ib.
Ward, Edward, [281]
Waterloo Bridge, Dupin and Canova’s declaration respecting, [124];
chief features of, ib.;
anecdote of Old Jack, a horse employed to drag the stone to, ib.;
the dark arch of, [451]
Watling Street, [349]
Weare, Mr. William, [165]
Webster, Benjamin, as an actor, [184]
Wedderburn, his insincerity, [415];
Lord Clive’s reward to, ib.
Welch, Judge, apprehends a highwayman, [378]
Wellington Street, newspapers and periodicals in, [167], [168], [454]
West, anecdote of, [73];
his patronage of Proctor, [80]
Westminster Fire Office, [257]
Whetstone Park, [400]
Whitefoord, Caleb, [141];
Adam’s room in the house of, [142];
Goldsmith’s lines on, ib.
White Horse livery stables, [257]
Whitelock, Bulstrode, [234]
Whittington Club, the, [152]
Wickliffe, John, refuses tribute to the Pope, [109];
appears before the Bishop of London, ib.
Widow, the White, the story of, [94]
Wild House, [277], [459]
Wilkes, Robert, actor, [311]
Wilkinson, Tate, [123]
Willis, Dr. Thomas, [241]
Wilson, the painter, [189], [283]
Wimbledon House, Strand, and Doyley’s warehouse erected on the site of, [168]
Winchester House, [271]
Wither, George, [120], [121]
Woffington, Peg, president of the Beefsteak Club, [173];
her career, [316]
Wolcot, Dr. (Peter Pinder), [84]
Wollaston, Dr., discoveries of, [88];
anecdote of, [85]
Woodward, the actor, [315]
Wych Street, [164], [454]
Wynford, Lord, epigram on, [415]
Yates, Mr., the actor, [183]
Yates, Mrs., actress, [317]
York House, old, [126];
river view of, [127];
celebrated men connected with, ib.;
Lord Bacon’s life here, ib.;
pictures, busts, and statues at, [131];
paintings placed in it by the Duke of Buckingham, ib.;
Pepys’s visit to, [132];
streets built on its site, [135]
York Stairs, description of, [134]
York Buildings, waterworks, [135], [445]
York Buildings, Water Company, [445]
Young, Charles, the actor, [323], [335]
Zoffany, the artist, [303];
Garrick’s patronage of, [304]

THE END.

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Footnotes:

[1] Tom Taylor’s Life of Haydon, vol. i. p. 49.

[2] Strype, B. iii. p. 278.

[3] It was pulled down in January 1878.