AND ITS CELEBRITIES.

A SECOND SERIES OF

LITERARY AND HISTORICAL MEMORIALS
OF LONDON.

BY J. HENEAGE JESSE.

66 MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF ENGLAND," " THE PRETENDERS
AND THEIR ADHERENTS,"
99 66

GEORGE SELWYN AND HIS

CONTEMPORARIES," ETC.

AUTHOR OF

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET,
Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty.

1850.

LONDON:

Printed by SAMUEL BENTLEY & CO.,

Bangor House, Shoe Lane.

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

München

CONTENTS

OF

THE SECOND VOLUME.

ELY HOUSE, GRAY'S INN, THAVIE'S INN, STAPLE

INN, BARNARD'S INN.

Ely House in its Splendour.-Its Inhabitants.-Protector

Gloucester.-Bishops of Ely.-Feastings in Ely House.-Sir

Christopher Hatton and the Bishops of Ely.-Gray's Inn and

Gardens. Masques Performed at Gray's Inn. - Famous

Masque. Celebrated Men who Studied at Gray's Inn.-

Thavie's Inn. -Furnival's Inn. -Staple Inn. - Barnard's

Inn.-Gordon Riots.

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RED LION SQUARE, GREAT ORMOND STREET,

BLOOMSBURY SQUARE, &c.

Cromwell's Supposed Grave in Red Lion Square.-Lamb's-

Conduit Fields.-Great Ormond Street.-Queen Square.-

Southampton Row.-Bloomsbury Square.-Burning of Lord

Mansfield's House.-Celebrated Persons who Lived in Blooms-

bury Square.-Highway Robberies.-Great Russell Street.—

Montague House, now the British Museum.-Duchess of

Montague.

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CHEAPSIDE.

Cheapside at an Early Period called the "Crown Field."-

Tournaments held there.-Persons Executed at the Standard

in Cheapside." Evil May-Day."-Elizabeth's Coronation

Procession.-The Cross.-The Conduit. - Celebrated Resi-

dents in Cheapside.-Streets in the Vicinity." Mermaid

Tavern." — Guildhall, Trial-scenes and Entertainments

there. St. Mary-le-Bow.-" Crown-Sild."-Watling Street.

-Goldsmiths' and Coachmakers' Halls.

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NEIGHBOURHOOD OF ST. PAUL'S.

Old Church of St. Martin's-le-Grand.-Abuse of Privilege

of Sanctuary there. - Northumberland House.-St. Paul's

Churchyard, a Residence of Publishers.--Burning of Books

there during the Great Fire.-Execution of Sir Everard

Digby. Queen Anne.-Paternoster Row.-Lovell's Court.-

Warwick Lane.-Archbishop Leighton.-St. Paul's School.-

Heralds' College.-Doctors' Commons.-Ludgate Hill.-The

"Belle Sauvage."-Nell Gwynne.-St. Martin Ludgate.

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ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL.

Wren's Discoveries when Digging the Foundation of St.

Paul's. Supposed to have been built on the site of a Roman

Temple. History of the Old Structures. -Church of St.

Faith. Bishop of London's Palace. Lollards' Tower.-

Wickliffe in St. Paul's. "Paul's Walkers' "Paul's

Men."-Tombs in Old St. Paul's.-Paul's Cross.-Remark-

able Events there. Present St. Paul's. - Sir Christopher

Wren.

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THE OLD BAILEY, NEWGATE, CHRIST'S HOSPITAL,

ST. SEPULCHRE'S CHURCH.

Derivation of word Old Bailey.-Great Antiquity of Court

of Justice there.-The Press Yard.-" Peine Forte et Dure."

-Major Strangeways.-Gaol Fever.-Newgate Prison.-Ivy

Lane. Pannier Alley.- Old Christ Church, Newgate.—

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Persons Interred there.-Modern Christ Church, Newgate.---

Christ's Hospital.-St. Sepulchre's Church.-Curious Cere-

mony at Executions.-Pie Corner.-Green Arbour Court. 155

FLEET STREET.

St. Bride's Church.-Persons Interred there.- Salisbury

Court.-Richardson the Novelist.-Gough Square.-Anec-

dotes of Dr. Johnson.-Johnson's Court and Bolt Court.-

Wine-Office Court.-Anecdote of Goldsmith.-Old Conduit

in Fleet Street. Bangor House. Mitre Court. - Crane

Court. Devil Tavern and its Celebrated Frequenters.-

Residences of Eminent Men in Fleet Street.-Chancery Lane.

-Shire Lane.-Anecdote of Coleridge.-Kit-Cat Club.-St.

Dunstan's Church.-Its Old Dial. .

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THE FLEET PRISON.

The Fleet used as a State Prison at an Early Date.-Per-

sons Incarcerated there: Bishops Gardiner and Hooper,-

Dr. Donne, Martin Keys,- Prynne, Lilburne, - James

Howel, Lords Surrey and Falkland,-Sir Richard Baker,

-Oldys, Wycherley,- Sandford.-Tyranny and Tortures

Practised in the Prison.-General Oglethorpe.-Prison Burnt

at the Great Fire.-Fleet Marriages.-Keith, the notorious

Fleet Parson.

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THE TEMPLE.

The Knights Templars.-The Origin, Habits, Duties, and

History of the Order.-Temple Church.-Effigies there.—

Temple Gardens.-The White and Red Rose.-Inner and

Middle Temple Halls.-Temple Lawyers.-Inner Temple

Gate and Lane.-Drs. Goldsmith and Johnson's Rooms.-

King's Bench Walk.-Eminent Residents in the Temple.

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