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 CHAPTER III. THE STRAND (SOUTH SIDE). 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 CHAPTER IV. SOMERSET HOUSE. 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 CHAPTER V. THE STRAND (SOUTH SIDE, CONTINUED). 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 CHAPTER VI. THE SAVOY. 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 CHAPTER VII. FROM THE SAVOY TO CHARING CROSS.