Drury House--Donne’s Vision--Donne in his Shroud--The Queen of Bohemia--Brave Lord Craven--An Anecdote of Gondomar--Drury Lane Poets--Nell Gwynn--Zoffany--The King’s Company--Memoranda by Pepys--Anecdotes of Joe Haines--Mrs. Oldfield’s Good Sense--The Wonder of the Town--Quin and Garrick--Barry and Garrick--The Bellamy-- The Siddons--Dicky Suett--Liston’s Hypochondria--The First Play--Elliston’s Tears--The End of a Man about Town--Edmund Kean--Grimaldi--Kelly and Malibran--Keeley and Harley--Scenes at Drury Lane--“Wicked Will Whiston”--Henley’s Butchers--“Il faut vivre”--Henley’s Sermons--The Leaden Seals pp. 287-348 CHAPTER XIII. ST. GILES’S. The Lollards--Cobham’s Death--The Lazar House--Holborn First Paved--The Mud Deluge--French Protestants--The Plague Cart--The Plague Time--Brought to his Knees--The New Church--The Grave of Flaxman--The Thorntons--Hog Lane--The Tyburn Bowl--The Swan on the Hop--The Irish Deluge--Sham Abraham--Simon and his Dog--Hiring Babies-- Pavement Chalkers--Monmouth Street pp. 349-386 CHAPTER XIV. LINCOLN’S INN FIELDS. The Earl of Lincoln’s Garden--The Headless Chancellor-- Spelman a late Ripener--Denham and Wither--Lord Lyndhurst--Warburton and Heber--Ben Jonson the Bricklayer--A Murder in Whetstone Park--The Dangers of Lincoln’s Inn Fields--Shelter in St. John’s Wood--Lord William Russell--A Brave Wife--Pelham--The Caricature of a Duke--Wilde and Best--Lindsey House--The Dukes of Ancaster--Skeletons--Lady Fanshawe--Lord Kenyon’s Latin--The Belzoni Sarcophagus--Sir John Soane--Worthy Mrs. Chapone--The Duke’s House--Betterton--Mrs. Bracegirdle--A Riot--Rich’s Pantomime--The Jump pp. 387-442 APPENDIX pp. 443-465 INDEX pp. 467-476 DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. TEMPLE BAR, 1761, from a drawing by S. Wale. The view is taken from the City side of the Bar, looking through the arch to Butcher Row and St. Clement’s Church. The sign projecting from the house to the spectator’s left is that of the famous Devil Tavern _Vignette on Title_ PAGE OLD HOUSES, SHIP YARD, TEMPLE BAR, circa 1761, from a plate in Wilkinson’s _Londina Illustrata_ 4 THE LORD MAYOR’S SHOW. From the picture by Hogarth 19