The York Water-Gate--Inigo Jones' Beautiful Work--Built for the Duke of Buckingham--The Proposal for its Removal--Satires on the Subject--The Gate Neglected--Its Restoration--The Water Tower--The West-end supplied with Water from Here--The Steam Engine--Samuel Pepys resides in Buckingham Street--William Etty and Clarkson Stanfield--Peter the Great Lodges Here--His Love of Strong Drink--The Witty Earl of Dorset--David Hume and Jean Jacques Rousseau--Moore writes to his Publisher Here--The Father of Modern Geology--A Great Actor dies Here--The Original of Smollett's Hugh Strap--David Copperfield's Chambers--Evelyn lives in Villiers Street--Sir Richard Steele--Zara acted Here--Mrs Cibber--Misstatement by "Anthony Pasquin" 235-248 CHAPTER XII The Strand in 1353--St Mary Rounceval--Northampton House--Earl of Surrey, the Poet--Suffolk House--Suckling's _Ballade upon a Wedding_--Algernon Percy, Earl of Northumberland--The Restoration planned at Northumberland House--Lady Elizabeth Percy--Her Romantic Marriages--Murder of "Tom of Ten Thousand"--The "Proud" Duke of Somerset--_Edwin and Angelina_--Goldsmith at Northumberland House--Fire Here--Dr Percy's Library saved--The Famous Lion--Demolition of the House--The Duke's Lament--Northumberland Avenue--Craven Street--Benjamin Franklin--Sir Joshua Reynolds--Heinrich Heine--The Author of _Rejected Addresses_--J.S. Clarke 249-272 APPENDIX Samuel Pepys and the Adelphi 273-284 Hannah More and Garrick's Funeral 284-285 INDEX 286-294 List of Illustrations The Terrace, York Buildings, Adelphi _Frontispiece_ TO FACE PAGE The Adelphi (Durham Yard and the New Exchange) and Charing Cross in 1755 8 Durham House. Salisbury House. Worcester House 16 The New Exchange, Strand 24 "The Buildings called the Adelphi," 1777 32 The Society of Arts, John Street, Adelphi 40 Garrick's House, 5 Adelphi Terrace 56 Adam Street, Adelphi 64 Adelphi Terrace in Garrick's Time 72 The Thames, from the Water Works, York Buildings, Adelphi 80 York Stairs and the Water Tower 88 The Society of Arts distributing its Awards 96 The Strand Entrance to Durham Yard 104 Ivy Lane, Strand (the boundary of the Duchy of Lancaster and the City of Westminster) 112