Jacob Tonson; and anecdote of Dryden-Wycherley's courtship and mar-
riage-The "Cock Tavern"-Infamous frolic of Sir Charles Sedley there
-Pickpockets abounded there-Costly wigs-Will's Coffee House-Fre-
quented by Dryden, head-quarters of envy and slander-Dryden attacked
by bravoes-Covent Garden Theatre erected, burnt, new theatre erected
-O. P. Riots-Compromise effected-Long Acre-Anecdote of Taylor,
the water poet-Mug-house Clubs-Anecdote of Prior-Paul Whitehead
-Mrs. Clive-Garrick-The mysterious lady-Dr. Arne-Voltaire resided
there when in England-Great Queen Street, fashionable in the time of
the Stuarts-Anecdote of Lord Herbert of Cherbury who resided here-
Earl of Bristol's mansion-Anecdote of Sir Godfrey Kneller-Freemasons'
Tavern-Literary Fund-Sir John Soane's Museum-Whetstone Park,
murder committed there by three Dukes-Infamous neighbourhood of
Lincoln's Inn Square, temp. Charles II.-Proclamation against increase of
buildings-Lincoln's Inn Fields-Inigo Jones's plan for, and anecdote of—
Ben Jonson-Royal College of Surgeons-Burial-place of Joe Miller-
Burial-grounds, their filthy state-Portugal Street; Sir William Dave-
nant's theatre there-Anecdotes connected with-First female performer
acted here-Anecdote of Kynaston, who performed female characters. 163
St. Mary-le-Strand Church-Fatal accident near-Introduction of hackney-
coaches-Proclamation to restrain the abuses of hackney coaches-Holy-
well Street, the resort of Jew clothes' dealers-St. Clement Danes, in-
scription in-Frequented by Dr. Johnson, Clement's Inn-New Inn-
Butcher Row-Clifton's Eating-house in Butcher Row-Death of Nat
Lee-The celebrated Daniel Burgess-Bath's Inn-Career of Lord Sey-
mour-Anecdote of Queen Elizabeth-Residence of the great Minister
Sully-Arundel House-William Penn, the Quaker-Mrs. Bracegirdle—
Particulars of the murder of Lord Mountford-The Czar Peter-Palace of
the Bishop of Exeter, who was murdered there, temp. Edward II.-Exeter
Place, (afterwards Paget House)-Sir William Paget-Norfolk House-
Execution of the Duke of Norfolk-Dudley, Earl of Leicester-Devereux,
Earl of Essex, his Trial and Execution-Sir Philip Sidney-Essex, the
Parliamentarian General-Club at the Essex Head-The Kit-Cat Club-
Tonson expelled from it
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