that in Queen Square, which he afterwards occupied. The lat ter he subsequently exchanged for the house in St. Mrs. Martin's Street, which had once been the abode of Elwood's Literary Sir Isaac Newton, and where still remained, above Ladies of the attic, his observatory [see NEWTON], which, with England, due reverence, Dr. Burney caused to be repaired and Madame preserved.

vol. ii. :

D'Arblay.

A letter of Miss Burney's, dated 1785, was written 'at Mrs. Delaney's, in St. James's Place,' St. James's Street. She became Madame D'Arblay in 1793; and after a long residence on the Continent, and at Bath and elsewhere in the provinces of England, she settled in London in 1818. Thursday, October 18, 1818. I came this evening to my new and probably last dwelling, No. 11 Bolton Street, Piccadilly. My kind James conducted me. Oh, how heavy is my Madame forlorn heart! I have made myself very busy all day; D'Arblay's so only could I have supported this first opening to my baleful desolation. No adored husband. No beloved son. the latter is only at Cambridge. Ah! let me struggle to think more of the other, the first, the chief, as only one removed from my sight by a transitory journey.

Diary.

But

Sir Walter Scott was taken by Rogers to call on Madame D'Arblay in Bolton Street.

November 18. -I have been introduced to Madame D'Arblay, the celebrated authoress of 'Evelina' and 'Cecilia,' Scott's an elderly lady with no remains of personal beauty, Diary, 1826: but with a simple and gentle manner, and pleasing ex- Life of pression of countenance, and apparently quiet feelings.

Lockhart's

Scott.

Madame D'Arblay's house was standing in 1885, the numbers in Bolton Street being unchanged.

Afterwards she went to the corner of Piccadilly and Half Moon Street, on the east side of the latter thoroughfare; but the house no longer remains. She died in Lower Grosvenor Street, New Bond Street, in 1840.

OF

WILLIAM DAVENANT.

1605-1668.

F Davenant's private life in London little is known now, except that the first Lady Davenant died in Castle Yard (since called Castle Street), Holborn, a short street opposite Furnival's Inn, the character of which has entirely changed during the last two centuries, and that Davenant himself died in apartments over or immediately adjoining the Duke's Theatre, Portugal Row, the site of which was afterwards occupied by the College of Surgeons. The chief entrance to the theatre, which ran back to the south side of Lincoln's Inn Fields, was on Portugal Street, facing Carey Street.

Aubrey's
Lives:

The Tennis Court in Little Lincolnes Inne Fielde was turned into a play house for the Duke of Yorke's players, where Sr William had lodgings, and where he dyed April 166– [1668]. I was at his funerall; he had a coffin of Davenant. walnutt-tree. Sir John Denham said 'twas the finest coffin that ever he sawe. His body was carried in a hearse from the play house to Westminster Abbey, where at the great west dore he was received by the singing men and choristers, who sang the service of the church to his grave, which is in the south crosse aisle, on which, on a paving stone of marble is writt in imitation of yt on Ben Jonson, 'O rare S′ Wm. Davenant.'

Pepys's
Diary, vol.

I up and down to the Duke of York's play house to see, which I did, Sir W. Davenant's corpse carried out towards Westminster, there to be buried. Here were many iii., April 9, coaches, and many hacknies, that made it look, methought, as if it were the buriall of a poor poet. He seemed to have many children, by five or six in the first mourning coach, all boys.

1668.

Davenant directed theatrical performances at Rutland House, which stood at the upper end of Aldersgate Street, near what has since been called Charter House Square; and at the Cock Pit Theatre, in Cock Pit Alley, afterwards called Pitt Place, Drury Lane. This theatre was long since taken down; and the street upon which it stood, and which ran from No. 20 Great Wild Street to No. 135 Drury Lane, entirely disappeared on the erection of the Peabody Buildings for Workingmen. Davenant's name is also associated with the Red Bull Theatre in Red Bull Yard, Clerkenwell; no trace of which, or even of the street that contained it now remains. Red Bull Yard is shown, by comparison with old maps, to be the present (1885) Woodbridge Street, or part of it; and the theatre probably stood behind the archway called Hayward's Place, St. John's Street, Clerkenwell, opposite Compton Street.

One of Davenant's haunts was the Brew House in Axe Yard, Westminster, afterwards Fluyder Street, on the west side of King Street, between Charles and Downing Streets. It is now covered by the public offices (see PEPYS).

THE

THOMAS DAY.

1748-1789.

HE author of 'Sandford and Merton' was born in Wellclose Square, Shadwell. As a child he lived at Stoke Newington, where he received the first rudiments of his education. In 1757 he was sent to the Charter House (see ADDISON, p. 1), where he remained seven years. He was a student of the Middle Temple; but the greater part of his life was spent at Anningsley Park, Addlestone, Surrey.

DANIEL DE FOE.

1660-1731.

DANIEL

ANIEL DE FOE, son of James Foe, a butcher, was born in the parish of St. Giles, Cripplegate; and at the age of twelve was sent to the Dissenters' School, on the north side of Newington Green, near the Dissenting Chapel, where he remained four years, and received all the education his father was willing, or able, to give him. One of his schoolmates is said to have been named Crusoe.

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In 1685 De Foe occupied a shop in Freeman's Court, Cornhill, at the east end of the Royal Exchange, a street no longer in existence. Here he remained in trade as a hosier and wool-dealer for ten years. He was afterwards engaged in the manufacture of tiles and bricks on the banks of the Thames at or near Tilbury, when he lived close to his place of business, and spent much of his leisure on the river.

In January, 1703, the House of Commons resolved that a book of his should be burned by the Common Hangman in Palace Yard, Westminster; and the Secretary of State issued the following interesting proclamation, still preserved in the Records: :

Whereas, Daniel De Foe, alias De Fooe, is charged with writing a scandalous and seditious pamphlet entitled 'The Shortest Way with the Dissenters.' He is a middle-sized spare man, about forty years old, of a brown complexion, and dark brown colored hair, but wears a wig; a hooked nose, a sharp chin, gray eyes, and a large mole near his mouth.

A reward of fifty pounds was offered for his discovery and

arrest.