: Haunted London by Thornbury Walter Walford Edward Editor Fairholt F W Frederick William Illustrator - London (England) History

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The Devil Tavern--London Bankers and Goldsmiths--A Whim of John Bushnell, the Sculptor--Irritating Processions-- The Bonfire at Inner Temple Gate--A Barbarous Custom-- Called to the Bar--A Curious Old Print of 1746--The White Cockades--An Execution on Kennington Common-- Shenstone's "Jemmy Dawson"--Counsellor Layer--Dr. Johnson in the Abbey--The Proclamation of the Peace of Amiens--The Dispersion of the Armada--City Pageants and Festivities--The Guildhall--The Guildhall Twin Giants-- Proclamation of War--A Reflection pp. 4-24

Essex Street--Beheading a Bishop--Exeter Place--The Gipsy Earl--Running a-muck--Lettice Knollys--A Portrait of Essex--Robert, Earl of Essex, the Parliamentary General--The Poisoning of Overbury--An Epicurean Doctor--Clubable Men--The Grecian--The Templar's Lounge--Tom's Coffee-house--A Princely Collector--"The Long Strand"--"Honest Shippen"--Boswell's Enthusiasm-- Sale and the Koran--The Infamous Lord Mohun--A fine Rebuke--Jacob Tonson pp. 25-55

The Protector Somerset--Denmark House--The Queen's French Servants--The Lying-in-State of Cromwell--Scenes at Somerset House--Sir Edmondbury Godfrey--Old Somerset House--Erection of the Modern Building--Carlini's Grandeur--A Hive of Red Tapists--Expensive Auditing--The Royal Society--The Geological and the Antiquarian Societies--A Legend of Somerset House--St. Martin's Lane Academy--An Insult to Engravers--Rebecca's Practical Jokes--A Fashionable Man actually Surprised--Lying in State pp. 56-81

The Folly--Fountain Court and Tavern--The Coal-hole--The Kit-cat Club--Coutts's Bank--The Eccentric Philosopher-- Old Salisbury House--Robert the Devil--Little Salisbury House--Toby Matthew--Ivy Bridge--The Strand Exchange-- Durham House--Poor Lady Jane--The Parochial Mind--A Strange Coalition--Garrick's Haunt--Shipley's School of Art--Barry's Temper--The Celestial Bed--Sir William Curtis pp. 82-105

The Earl of Savoy--John Wickliffe--A French King Prisoner--The Kentish Rebellion--John of Gaunt--The Hospital of St. John--Cowley's Regrets--Secret Marriages--Conference between Church of England and Presbyterian Divines--An Illegal Sanctuary--A Lampooned General--A Fat Adonis--John Rennie--Waterloo Bridge--The Duchy of Lancaster pp. 106-125

York House--Lord Bacon--"To the Man with an Orchard give an Apple"--"Steenie"--Buckingham Street--Zimri--York Stairs--Pepys and Etty--Scenery on the Banks of the Thames--The London Lodging of Peter the Great--The Czar and the Quakers--The Hungerford Family--The Suspension Bridge--Grinling Gibbons--The Two Smiths--Cross Readings--Northumberland Street--Armed Clergymen pp. 126-145

Faithorne, the Engraver--The Stupendous Arch--The Murder of Miss Ray--One of Wren's Churches--Thomas Rymer--Dr. Johnson at Church--Shallow's Revelry--Low Comedy Preachers--New Inn--Alas! poor Yorick!--The first Hackney Coaches--Doyley--The Beef-steak Club--Beef and Liberty--Madame Vestris--Old Thomson--Irene in a Garret--Mathews at the Adelphi--The Bad Points of Mathew's Acting--The Old Adelphi--A Riot in a Theatre-- Dr. Johnson's Eccentricities pp. 146-189

The Gunpowder Plot--Lord Herbert's Chivalry--A Schoolboy Legend--Goldsmith's Audience--Dobson Buried in a Garret--Charing--Queen Eleanor--A Brave Ending-- Great-hearted Colonel Jones--King Charles at Charing Cross--A Turncoat--A Trick of Curll's--The Cock Lane Ghost--Savage the Poet--The Mews--The Nelson Column--The Trafalgar Square Fountains--Want of Pictures of the English School--Turner's Pictures--Mrs. Centlivre of Spring Gardens--Maginn's Verses--The Hermitage at Charing Cross--Ben Jonson's Grace--The Promised Land pp. 190-238

A Certain Proof of Insanity--An Eccentric Character-- Experimentum Crucis--St. Martin's-in-the-Fields--Gibb's Opportunity--St. Martin's Church--Good Company--The Thames Watermen--Copper Holmes--Old Slaughter's-- Gardelle the Murderer--Hogarth's Quack--St. Martin's Lane Academy--Hayman's Jokes--The Old Watch-house and Stocks--Garrick's Tricks--An Encourager of Art--John Wilkes--The Royal Society of Literature--The Artist Quarter pp. 239-261

The Plague--Great Queen Street--Burning Panama--Lord Herbert's Poetry--Kneller's Vanity--Conway House-- Winchester House--Ryan the Actor--An Eminent Scholar and Antiquary--Miss Pope--The Freemasons' Hall--Gentleman Lewis--Franklin's Self-denial--The Gordon Riots--Colonel Cromwell--An Eccentric Poetaster--Black Will's Rough Repartee--Ned Ward--Prior's Humble Cell--Stothard--The Mug-houses--Charles Lamb pp. 262-286

Drury House--Donne's Vision--Donne in his Shroud--The Queen of Bohemia--Brave Lord Craven--An Anecdote of Gondomar--Drury Lane Poets--Nell Gwynn--Zoffany--The King's Company--Memoranda by Pepys--Anecdotes of Joe Haines--Mrs. Oldfield's Good Sense--The Wonder of the Town--Quin and Garrick--Barry and Garrick--The Bellamy-- The Siddons--Dicky Suett--Liston's Hypochondria--The First Play--Elliston's Tears--The End of a Man about Town--Edmund Kean--Grimaldi--Kelly and Malibran--Keeley and Harley--Scenes at Drury Lane--"Wicked Will Whiston"--Henley's Butchers--"Il faut vivre"--Henley's Sermons--The Leaden Seals pp. 287-348

The Lollards--Cobham's Death--The Lazar House--Holborn First Paved--The Mud Deluge--French Protestants--The Plague Cart--The Plague Time--Brought to his Knees--The New Church--The Grave of Flaxman--The Thorntons--Hog Lane--The Tyburn Bowl--The Swan on the Hop--The Irish Deluge--Sham Abraham--Simon and his Dog--Hiring Babies-- Pavement Chalkers--Monmouth Street pp. 349-386

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