foundations of an older church which Henry VIII. built literally in the
fields. Henry VIII., living at Whitehall, objected when the people of
the parish of St. Margaret's at Westminster had the bodies of the dead
carried by the palace. So he had St. Martin's built. The first church
was a small one and being found quite too small the present St. Martin's
took its place. The burial ground that once surrounded the church was
gradually encroached upon to make way for the widening of the street and
was done away with in 1829. Francis Bacon was christened here and in the
old burial ground were laid to rest many whose names are familiar--Jack
Sheppard, John Hunter, famous as a surgeon, Nell Gwynne, and Lord
Mohun, a duellist, concerning whom much may be read in Thackeray's
"Henry Esmond." It was beside St. Martin's that David Copperfield one
wintry night came upon Martha Endell who had once been the companion of
little Em'ly at Mr. Omer's.
St. Martin's Lane leading from Trafalgar Square to Long Acre was famous
when it was called Crooked Lane. Here at different times lived Sir John
Thornhill whose decorations adorn the interior of St. Paul's and whose
daughter married Hogarth; Fuseli, a famous artist; Sir Joshua Reynolds,
Oliver Goldsmith, Roubiliac, the French sculptor; and Thomas Chippendale
the cabinet maker who published "Gentlemen and Cabinet Makers'
Directory."
The Music Hall centre, Leicester Square, has gradually grown out of
Leicester Fields the garden of Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester whose
mansion stood close by where Daly's Theatre is now. On a house facing
the square on the west is a tablet telling that Sir Joshua Reynolds
once lived there; and another on the east side shows where Hogarth
lived.
Around the corner from Leicester Square in Rupert Street Robert Louis
Stevenson, in the "New Arabian Nights," places the Bohemian Cigar Divan
conducted by Theophilus Godall, the Prince Florizel, formerly one of the
magnates of Europe, whom a revolution hurled from the throne of Bohemia
in consequence of his continued absence and edifying neglect of public
business, and who, exiled and impoverished, embarked in the tobacco
trade.
The plain brick building numbered 37 Gerrard just to the south of
Macclesfield Street now occupied by a restaurant was long the home of
Edmund Burke the philosopher and statesman. On the house-front is a
tablet reading:
Edmund Burke
Author and Statesman
Lived Here
B 1729
D 1797
Close by at No. 43 Dryden lived for fourteen years until his death in
1701. Within a few doors on the same side of the way Dickens places the
home of Jaggers, the criminal lawyer of "Great Expectations." The street
itself takes its name from Gerrard, Earl of Macclesfield, whose mansion
stood on the south side facing the present Macclesfield Street. Here in
1694 he died. The house was afterwards occupied by Lord Mohun and his
body was brought here after the fatal duel with the Duke of Hamilton.
The Turk's Head Tavern was to be found in Gerrard Street at the Greek
Street corner. In the tavern, in 1764, Sir Joshua Reynolds and Dr.
Samuel Johnson founded the Literary Club, an association of scholars,
authors and statesmen which has been called "the formidable power in the
commonwealth of letters." The club met here until 1783. In its early
days it was limited to forty members among whom were Boswell, Gibbon,
Oliver Goldsmith and George Colman the elder. It was most exclusive in
those days and for years David Garrick struggled for admittance but
finally became one of them. Many men of note were blackballed,
including the Bishop of Chester and Lord Camden.
Just off busy Shaftesbury Avenue in Wardour Street is the square brick
church of St. Anne's, seeming for all the world to be passing a
contented old age. Well up from the street, behind a wall and an old
iron fence, there is about it still a remnant of green sward but hemmed
in by asphalt spaces that have engulfed the few tombstones. One tablet
tells that William Hazlitt, painter and critic, was buried here in 1830;
another how Theodore, King of Corsica, found a last resting place in
1756 beside the church near which the last years of his life had been
spent in poverty. On the outer wall of the church the tablet erected by
Horace Walpole can yet be deciphered:
Near this place is interred Theodore, King of Corsica, who died in
this parish, December 11, 1756, immediately after leaving the
King's Bench Prison, by the benefit of the Act of Insolvency, in
consequence of which he resigned his kingdom of Corsica for the
use of his creditors.
His funeral expenses were paid by an oilman who declared himself willing
_for once_ to pay the funeral expenses of a king.
Regent Street was at first part of an elaborate plan to provide a wide
and systematic street system for London--a plan that failed and left to
time merely a name for this thoroughfare and for Regent's Park in honour
of the Prince Regent who afterwards became George IV.
Golden Square a space of commonplace residential houses now given over
to business is hidden away in the labyrinthian streets to the east of
Regent Street. It was here that Dickens placed the home of Ralph
Nickleby, in the house No. 2 on the east side, now a small hotel.
Hanover Square was first laid out in 1731 and was the cause of changing
the place for execution of criminals from Tyburn to Newgate. The square
and its surroundings being intended for the homes of wealth and fashion
it was feared that the sight of the criminals passing in carts from
Newgate to Tyburn would be annoying to them.
In Brook Street near Bond Street is a tablet on the house numbered 25
marking it as the one time home of George Frederick Handel. Here he
rehearsed his oratories. Brook Street is a reminder of the old Tye
Bourne Brook the course of which followed its direction.
Lord Byron was born in 1788 at No. 28 Holles Street, between Oxford
Street and Cavendish Square, in a house now given over to trade.
So high above the roadway that its inscription can hardly be made out is
a tablet on the house numbered 50 Wimpole Street on the west side above
New Cavendish. It sets forth that this was the house of Mrs. Browning's
father, from which she went secretly to marry Robert Browning. In this
house she wrote her "Cry of the Children" and other poems.
A narrow dingy thoroughfare of small shops called Poland Street extends
south from Oxford Street. In 1811 Percy Bysshe Shelley then a young man
lived hereabouts attracted to the street by Hogg his biographer who
liked it because of its name which reminded him of "Thaddeus of Warsaw"
and the cause of freedom. William Blake, the painter-poet, also lived in
this street when he depicted "Visionary Portraits" and wrote the "Songs
of Experience."
The "Berners Street Hoax" carried quiet Berners Street into history.
This was brought about by Theodore Hook, a novelist, dramatic writer and
celebrated wit, in this wise. He laid a wager that he could make the
quiet dwelling No. 54, occupied by a demure widow, Mrs. Tottingham, the
talk of the town. Then he wrote hundreds of letters to merchants of
every line, ordering everything from candles to a hearse, and all
reached the street at the same hour. The thoroughfare was blocked and
the story stirred London for a day. Hook after a meteoric career, at
times the friend of royalty and fashion, finally died in 1841 lonely
and miserable. Berners Street was long the home of artists. John Opie,
Royal Academician, author, and painter of "The Slaughter of James I. of
Scotland," lived at No. 8; at No. 13 lived Henry Fuseli the famous
portrait painter and critic of the early part of the 19th century; Henry
Bone the painter of miniatures lived at No. 15. It was here, too, that
the painter of cathedrals David Roberts suffered the apoplectic stroke
that resulted in his death.
In Newman Street jutting from Oxford to the north Benjamin West the
Anglo-American painter lived at No. 14 and here he died. Fanny Kemble
the actress was born in this street.
The Soho neighbourhood lies enclosed by Charing Cross Road, Leicester
Square, Warwick Street and Oxford Street. The name is a reminder of the
old cry of the harriers--Co, ho! The Square of Soho was part of the
garden of the Duke of Monmouth whose home was what is now the south
side of the square and occupied almost the entire space between the
present Greek and Frith streets.
Frith Street extending south from Soho Square has an air of genteel
poverty. In the block below the square on a low house of brick numbered
6 is a tablet:
William Hazlitt
1778-1833
Essayist
Died Here
Here he wrote some of his most notable essays and it was from this house
that his body was taken to the quiet little churchyard of St. Anne's in
Wardour Street.
In the block below the Hazlitt house at No. 7 Mozart lived when eight
years old during the two years he remained in London with his father.
Beyond New Oxford Street to the south in High Street is the church of
St. Giles-in-the-Fields. The fields of this day are the massed and
dreary houses standing so close about the old church that they seem like
to crowd it out of existence. But there is still a bit of green in the
churchyard and among the tombstones a most interesting one telling that
the body of Richard Pendrell lies buried here since 1671, and further
reciting the story of how this Richard Pendrell was the preserver of the
life of King Charles II. after the Battle of Worcester. St. Giles was
built in 1734 and its spire Hogarth has put in his picture of "Beer
Street."
Bloomsbury the heart of the boarding house district where Americans most
congregate is enclosed by Tottenham Court Road, Southampton Road, Euston
Road and on the south by Oxford Street and High Holborn. The name is a
corruption of Blemundsbury, which was the manor of the de Blemunds when
Henry III. was king.
There was formerly a graveyard beside St. George's church in Hart Street
but it has been made into a recreation ground. Munden the actor whom
Charles Lamb wrote of was buried here. It was the spire of this church
that Hogarth incorporated into his fearful picture of "Gin Lane." The
statue on the steeple top is a representation of George I., and inspired
the lines:
When Henry the Eighth left the Pope in the lurch,
The Protestants made him the head of the Church;
But George's good subjects, the Bloomsbury people,
Instead of the church, made him head of the steeple.
Great Russell Street on which the British Museum borders has been the
home of many well-known men. John Philip Kemble the great actor lived
here in the years after 1790 when Drury Lane came under his direction.
His house was demolished when the west wing of the Museum was added.
Gower Street, monotonous in the regularity of its houses, is where, in
the building numbered 110, Charles Darwin lived and where he wrote about
"Coral Reefs." Peter de Wint the painter of English cornfields lived at
No. 40 and Millais at No. 87.
When Sherlock Holmes first came to London by invitation of Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle he lived in one of the staid looking brick houses with a
prim stoop in Montague Street opposite the British Museum. The house is
mentioned in the "Musgrave Ritual."
To Bloomsbury Square in 1780 the Gordon rioters dragged the documents,
paintings and books of Lord Mansfield and made a bonfire of them. The
house, too, of the famous judge which faced the square was burned. It
was a fashionable locality in those days, unlike to-day when for the
most part the houses are used for business offices. The founder of the
British Museum Sir Hans Sloane long lived in this square; and at No. 6
Isaac d'Israeli wrote his "Curiosities of Literature."
In broad Kingsway just a few steps south of High Holborn is the church
of Trinity, contracted and ill kempt. There is nothing pleasant or
romantic about its appearance and it is noteworthy only because of being
on the site of the home in which in 1796 Mary Lamb while temporarily
insane stabbed her mother to death.
Dingy Red Lion Street near by the square of the same name in the house
numbered 9 William Morris started to make the furniture that was to
leave its mark on all such work in future times. Rossetti and
Burne-Jones lived at No. 15.
At 48 Doughty Street Charles Dickens lived and here he finished
"Pickwick Papers" and "Oliver Twist," wrote "Nicholas Nickleby," and
began to write "Barnaby Rudge."
INDEX
Adam Brothers, 127, 153
Addison, Joseph, 60, 121, 156
Adelphi Terrace, 125, 126
Adelphi, The, 127, 153
Adelphi Theatre, 125
"Albany, The," 155
Albemarle Street, 153
Aldermanbury, 19
Aldersgate, 40
Aldgate, 40, 64
Aldgate Pump, 64
All Hallows, Barking, 73
All Hallows, Lombard Street, 61
All Hallows on the Wall, 47
All Hallows, Staining, 62
Almack's Club, 159
"Alsatia," 88
"American Notes," 147
_Angelica_, in "Love for Love," 104
Apsley House, 142
Arne, T. A., 124
Arundel House, 113
Arundel Street, 113
Askew, Anne, 16
Austin Friars, 51
Baker Street, 145
Bank of England, 21, 52
Barbican, 41
Barham, R. H., 54
"Barnaby Rudge," 28, 146, 176
Barnard's Inn, 106
Bartholomew Fair, 32, 35
"Bastard, The," 107
Bath, Roman, 115
"Battle of Life," 147
"Bayard's Castle," 80
Beaumont, Francis, 20
_Becky Sharp_, in "Vanity Fair," 149
Bedford's Coffee House, 123
"Beer Street," 173
"Beggar's Opera," 93, 104
Bell Tavern, 25
Berkeley Square, 151
Berkeley Street, 153
Berners Street Hoax, 170
Berry, Agnes, 149
Berry, Mary, 149
_Betsy Trotwood_ in "David Copperfield," 127
Bevis Marks, 49
Billingsgate, 75
Birch, Dr. Thomas, 61
Birdcage Walk, 140
Bishop's Court, 101
Bishopsgate, 40, 47
Bishopsgate Street Within, 50
Blackfriars, 81
Blackfriars Theatre, 82
Blackstone, Sir William, 99
Blake, William, 170
Blandford Street, 147
"Bleak House," 101, 102, 107
Bleeding Heart Yard, 109
Blessington, Lady, 150
Bloomsbury, 173
Bloomsbury Square, 175
Boar's Head, 76
Boleyn, Anne, 72, 83
Bolt Court, 90
Bolton Street, 152
Bone, Henry, 171
Bonehill Fields, 44
Boswell, James, 105, 166
Bourchier, Elizabeth, 42
Bow Church, 13
Bow Street, 119
Bracegirdle, Mrs., 104, 132
Brand, John, 75
Bread Street, 53
"Brick Lane Branch of the United Grand Junction Ebenezer
Temperance Association," 68
Bridewell Palace, 83
Bridewell Prison, 82
Broad Sanctuary, 137
Brontë, Charlotte, 25
Brook Street, 169
Brooke Street, 108
Brothers Club, 157
Browning, Mrs., 169
Buckingham House, 141
Buckingham Palace, 141
Buckingham Street, 127
Bucklersbury, 11
Bunhill Fields, 43
Bunhill Row, 44
Bunyan, John, 44
Burbage, James, 82
Burke, Edmund, 165
Burleigh, Lord, 118
Burne-Jones, 176
Bury Street, 158
Butler, Samuel, 124
Button, Daniel, 121, 122, 124
Button's Coffee House, 121
Byron, Lord, 143, 146, 155, 156, 169
Cab stand, The First, 114
Cade, Jack, 11, 56, 79
Camomile Street, 50
Cannon Street, 55
Canute, 49
Carey, Henry, 121
Carlton House, 134, 161
Carter, Elizabeth, 151
Catherine Street, 159
Cave, the publisher, 36
Cawarden, Sir Thomas, 81
Caxton, William, 136
Chancery, Inns of, 97
Chandos Street, 126
Change Alley, 59
Chapter Coffee House, 25
Charing Cross, 128, 129
Charing Cross Railway Station, 128, 130
Charles Street, 151
Charterhouse, 35
Chatterton, Thomas, 108
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 64, 74
Cheapside, 12, 21
"Chepe," 12
Cherringe, 129
Cheshire Cheese, 89
Chesterfield, Lord, 150, 156, 160
Chesterfield House, 150
Chesterfield Letters, 150
Child's Bank, 92
"Chimes, The," 104
Chippendale, Thomas, 164
"Christmas Carol," 132, 147
Church Street, 69, 139
Clarges Street, 151
"Clarissa Harlowe," 88
Clifford's Inn, 101
Clive, Lord, 151
Cloth Fair, 34, 35
Cobham, Eleanor, 87
Cock Lane Ghost, 31, 37
Cock Tavern, 91
Colechurch, Peter of, 78
Colman, George, the Elder, 166
Column, York, 161
Conduit, The Great, 11
"Confessions of an English Opium Eater," 118
Congreve, William, 103, 114, 120
Constitution Hill, 142
"Coral Reefs," 174
Cotton, Charles, 156
"Country Girl, The," 124
Covent Garden, 122
Coverdale, Miles, 77
Cowper, William, 98
Crabbe, George, 158
Crane Court, 90
Cranmer, Archbishop, 72
Craven Street, 131
"Cricket on the Hearth," 147
Cripplegate, 40, 41, 42
Cromwell, Oliver, 42, 116, 138
_Crook_, of "Bleak House," 102
Crooked Lane, 164
Crosby Hall, 50
Cross, Eleanor's, 21, 22, 130
Cross, St. Paul's, 23
"Cry of the Children," 169
"Curiosities of Literature," 175
Curtain Theatre, 45
Curzon Street, 149
Curzon Street Chapel, 149
Czar's Head, 74
_Daniel Doyce_ in "Little Dorrit," 109
Darwin, Charles, 174
"David Copperfield," 127, 129, 130, 139, 147, 164
DeFoe, Daniel, 28, 44
De Quincey, Thomas, 117
Devereux Court, 100
Devil Tavern, 92, 93
Devonshire Terrace, 146
Dickens, Charles, 28, 90, 104, 105, 106, 127, 129, 146, 176
Dilettanti Club, 157
D'Israeli, Isaac, 175
Doctors' Commons, 24
"Dombey and Son," 64, 70, 146
Dover Street, 153
Downing Street, 135
_Doyce, Daniel_ in "Little Dorrit," 109
Doyle, Conan, 175
Dryden, John, 120, 165
D'Urfey, Tom, 156
Dutch Church, 51
Duval, Claude, 28, 126
East India Company, 66
Edgware Road, 145
Eleanor's Cross, 21, 22, 130
"Elegy written in a Country Churchyard," 67
Elephant Tavern, 61
Elgin Marbles, 142
"Essays of Elia," 121
Essex Head Tavern, 112
Essex House, 111
Essex House Water Gate, 111
Essex Street, 112
Evelyn, John, 119, 153
Exeter House, 111, 118
Fair, Bartholomew, 32, 35
Faraday, Michael, 147
"Farmer's Boy," 18
Fawkes, Guy, 138
Fenton, Lavina, 104
Fetter Lane, 91
Fielding, Henry, 85, 120, 123
Fines, Sir John, 46
Finsbury Pavement, 47
Finsbury Square, 46
Fire, The Great, 12, 30
Fitz Walter, Maud, 81
Fitz Walter, Robert, 80
Flambeau snuffers, 148
Fleet Brook, 82, 85, 87
Fleet Prison, 85
Fleet Street, 87
_Florizel, Prince_, 165
Foote, Samuel, 123
Forest, Miles, 38
Forster, John, 104
"Fortunes of Nigel," 89
Fountain Court, 100
Fountain, Temple, 100
"Four Seasons, The," 160
Fox Court, 107
Foxe, John, 42
"Frankenstein," 55
Franklin, Benjamin, 131
Friday Street, 21
Frith Street, 172
Frobisher, Martin, 42
Furnival's Inn, 106
Fuseli, Henry, 164, 171
Gallery, National, 134, 161
Garraway's Coffee House, 60
Garrick, David, 123, 125, 126, 166
Gas, First used, 160
Gate, York House Water, 127
Gay, John, 59, 93, 148
"Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Directory," 164
"Gentleman's Magazine," 36
Gerrard Street, 165
Gibbon, Edward, 157, 166
Gibbons, Grinling, 91, 119, 124, 157
Giltspur Street, 30
"Gin Lane," 174
Gloucester House, 143
Godwin, Mary, 55
Golden Cross Hotel, 130
Golden Square, 168
Goldsmith, Oliver, 88, 89, 93, 97, 99, 164, 166
Gordon, Lord George, 28
Gordon Riots, 28, 175
Goswell Road, 37
Gough Square, 89
Gower Street, 174
Gray's Inn, 96, 107
Gray, Thomas, 67
Great Bell Alley, 17
Great Conduit, 11
"Great Expectations," 106
Great Fire, 12, 30
Great Plague, 17, 44, 63
Great Tower Hill, 72
Grecian Coffee House, 100
Gresham, Sir Thomas, 10, 51
Gresham Street, 18
_Grewgious, Mr._, in "Bleak House," 105
Grey, Lady Jane, 11, 72
Grosvenor Square, 147
Grote, George, 154
Grub Street, 42, 43
_Guardian, The_, 121
Guildhall, 15
Guildhall Yard, 15
Gunpowder Alley, 86
Gunpowder Plot, 138
Gwynne, Nell, 160, 163
Hamilton, Lady, 151
"Hamlet," 45
Handel, George Frederick, 169
Hanover Square, 168
Hart Street, 62
Harvey, 33
"Haunted Man, The," 147
Hawksmoor, Nicholas, 58
Hay Hill, 152
Haymarket, 161
Hayward, John, 17
Hazlitt, William, 108, 141, 167, 172
"Henry Esmond," 131, 164
Hertford House, 147
Hertford Street, 143
Hobson's Choice, 48
Hogarth, William, 62, 88, 123, 144, 146, 165, 173
Holbein, Hans, 65
Holborn Viaduct, 85
Hole Bourne, 85
"Hole in the Wall," 126
Holy Trinity Church, 70
Hood, Thomas, 10, 127
Hook, Theodore, 170
Houndsditch, 39, 49
"Hudibras," 124
Hume, David, 127
Hungerford Market, 128
Hungerford Stairs, 129
Hunter, John, 163
"Idle Apprentice," 144, 146
"Ingoldsby Legends," 54
Inner Temple, 96
Inns of Chancery, 97
Inns of Court, 96
Ironmonger Lane, 12
Ivy Lane, 26
Ivy Lane Club, 26
_Jaggers, Mr._, in "Great Expectations," 166
Jeffreys, Judge, 19, 74
Jenner, Dr., 143
_Jenny Wren_ in "Our Mutual Friend," 139
Jewin Street, 40
_Jo_, in "Bleak House," 107
Johnson, Charles, 121
Johnson, Dr. Samuel, 26, 36, 88, 89, 90, 106, 112, 161, 166
Johnson's Court, 90
_John Westlock_, in "Martin Chuzzlewit," 100
Jonathan's Coffee House, 60
Jones, Inigo, 34, 80, 103, 116, 123
Jonson, Ben, 20, 92, 132
Kean, Edmund, 151
Keats, John, 48
Kemble, Fanny, 171
Kemble, John Philip, 174
King's Head Tavern, 26
Knightrider Street, 30, 55
Kynaston, Edward, 124
Lamb Alley, 40
Lamb, Charles, 66, 98, 120
Lamb, Charles and Mary, 141
Lamb, Mary, 120, 176
Lampson, Frederick Locker, 156
Lansdowne Gardens, 152
Lansdowne Passage, 152
"Last of the Barons," 27
Leicester Fields, 131, 164
Leicester Square, 164
"Life of Johnson," 105
Lightfoot, Hannah, 149
Lincoln's Inn, 96, 102
Lincoln's Inn Fields, 102
Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre, 103
Lintot, Bernard, 93
"Lirriper's Lodgings, Mrs.," 113
Literary Club, 166
Little Britain, 34
"Little Dorrit," 109
Locket's Ordinary, 131
Lombard Street, 58
London Bridge, 17, 78
London Stone, 56, 57
London Wall, 39, 40, 41, 43, 47, 83
"Love for Love," 103, 114
Lovelace, Richard, 86
Love Lane, 19
Lower Thames Street, 74
Ludgate, 39
Ludgate Hill, 83
Lytton, Bulwer, 27, 143, 147, 155
Macclesfield, Countess of, 107
Maidenhead Court, 40
Maiden Lane, 125
Mall, The, 140
Mansion House, 57
"Martin Chuzzlewit," 147
Martyrs, Nonconformist, 32
Martyrs, Protestant, 32
Marylebone, 146
Mary-le-Bone Church, 146
Mayfair, 148, 150
"Memories of the Reign of Elizabeth," 61
Mermaid Club, 20
Mermaid Tavern, 20
Middle Temple, 96, 99
Middle Temple Hall, 99
Middle Temple Lane, 99
Milk Street, 20
Millais, 175
Miller, Joe, 113
Milton, John, 19, 40, 41, 42, 44, 53, 54, 88, 141
Milton Street, 42
Mincing Lane, 61
Minories, 39, 69
Mitre, Sign of the, 109
Mohun, Lord, 164, 166
Montague Street, 175
"Monthly Magazine," 90
Monument to Great Fire, 76
Moore, Tom, 158
Moorfields, 46, 47
More, Sir John, 73
More, Sir Thomas, 20, 50, 138
More, Sir William, 82
Morris, William, 176
"Mourning Bride, The," 114
Mozart, 172
"Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings," 113
"Musgrave Ritual," 175
"Mysteries of Udolpho," 145
Nando's Coffee House, 100
National Gallery, 134, 161
Nelson, Lord, 133, 134, 151
"New Arabian Nights," 165
"Newcombs, The," 36
Newgate, 27, 39
Newgate Prison, 27, 28
Newman Street, 171
"News From the Farm," 18
Newton, Isaac, 90
Newton, John, 58
"Nicholas Nickleby," 168, 176
_Nickleby, Ralph_, in "Nicholas Nickleby," 168
"Night Thoughts," 75
Norfolk Street, 113
Northumberland House, 132
Northumberland Street, 132
Oates, Titus, 28
"Old Bachelor, The," 114
Old Bailey, 39
"Old Curiosity Shop," 49, 147
Old Jewry, 11
Old Lady of Threadneedle Street, 52
Old Palace Yard, 138
"Old Q," 155
"Oliver Twist," 64, 176
Opie, John, 171
Otway, Thomas, 73
"Our Mutual Friend," 139
Outer Temple, 96
Owen, Sir Richard, 33
_Palle-Malle_, 159
Pall Mall, 159
"Panegyrical Epistle," 59
Panyer Alley, 25, 26
"Paradise Lost," 42, 44
"Paradise Regained," 44
Paternoster Row, 24, 25
Paterson, William, 21
Pavement, Finsbury, 47
Pendrell, Richard, 173
Penn, William, 28, 73
Pepys, Samuel, 63, 92, 104, 127, 128
Peter of Colechurch, 78
Peter of Savoy, 114, 117
Peter the Great, 74, 113
Petty France, 141
Philips, Ambrose, 121
"Phineas Redux," 152
"Pickwick Papers," 37, 68, 86, 130, 176
Pie Corner, 29
Pie Powder Court, 30
"Pilgrim's Progress," 44
"Pills to Purge Melancholy," 156
_Pinch, Ruth_, in "Martin Chuzzlewit," 100
_Pinch, Tom_, in "Martin Chuzzlewit," 100
_Pip_, in "Great Expectations," 106
Plane Tree, Wood Street, 22
Plague, The Great, 17, 44, 63
Playhouse Yard, 81
_Plornish_, in "Little Dorrit," 109
Plough Court, 60
Pocahontas, 29
_Pocket, Herbert_, in "Great Expectations," 106
Poland Street, 170
_Polly Peacham_, in "The Beggar's Opera," 104
"Poor Susan," 23
Pope, Alexander, 60, 76, 121, 153
Pope's Head Alley, 58
Pope's Head Tavern, 59
"Popular Antiquitus," 75
Postman's Park, 39
Poultry, The, 10
Powell, Mary, 40
Protestant Martyrs, 33
Pudding Lane, 12, 30, 77
Radcliffe, Mrs., 145
Rahere, 33
"Rake's Progress, The," 146
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 72, 137, 138
_Ralph Nickleby_, 168
Ramsey, Mary, 64
"Rasselas," 106
Red Cross Street, 41
Red Lion Street, 176
Regent's Park, 168
Regent's Street, 168
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 164, 166
Richardson, Samuel, 88
Road, Edgware, 145
Robert Street, 127
Roberts, David, 171
"Robinson Crusoe," 44
Roman Bath, 115
Roses, War of the, 98
Rossetti, 176
Roubiliac, 164
Round Church, 97
Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 127
Rowland, hair dresser, 157
Royal Exchange, 10
Royal Society, 91
"Rule Britannia," 124
Rupert Street, 165
"Rural Tales," 18
Russell Street, 121
_Ruth Pinch_, in "Martin Chuzzlewit," 100