Another name in the general list, that of Alexander Pope of Broad Street, has an even more famous association, as Mr. Camden Hotten shows in his _Adversaria_ for July, 1857. The locality was then a charming suburb of gardens; and although the poet Pope, when taken away with his father, the popish merchant, to be educated in Windsor Forest by a priest, may have been too young to know how genial a home he was losing, he need not have been too vain, as it is feared he was, to revisit in after life the pleasant abode of his earliest years. Gresham’s garden was in Broad Street, with its lectures on music and all science. King Richard’s Crosby Hall, and Shoreditch with its unhappy leman of Edward IV, were hard by; whilst Milton’s birth-place, his retreat, and his grave were close at hand. The picturesque character of old London, graced by the sparkling Thames of olden time, is a circumstance not to be forgotten, when we are calling up the memories of any class of its inhabitants. In 1677 the city was full of fine residences for merchants; and in this list we meet with names of entertainers of wits of the time. Here is _Fountain_, doubtless father to the wealthy knight with whom Dean Swift was familiar, as shown in his letters to Stella. Here, too, is _Kiffen_, the Baptist Alderman whom James II. could neither affright nor seduce, with a less respectable name of the same class, that of William Lob. Here is _Benjamin Bathurst_, the founder of the family distinguished on the Bench and in the State, with _Bragg_ their connexion. Here is a tribe of the _Houblons_, who furnished the Bank of England with its first Governor, Sir John; and whose names, seven in number, may be read in documents recorded at the Board of Trade claiming convoys for their fleets. These seven names are found in the more interesting record--the sermon of Bishop Burnet at the funeral of this _Houblon_--with his eulogy and city descent from Henry the VIIIth’s time. The _Vansittarts_ will find their wealthy forefather here, and many more Dutch members of the old church of their nation in Austin Friars. The _Van Milderts_ of this list were doubtless progenitors of the learned late Bishop of Durham of that name; and the predominance of Dutch over Flemish merchants settled in London is to be attributed to the ultra-Protestant feeling of that time. Puckle the wit, and the eager projector, is here in the persons of his father and uncle. Nor are the Barnardistons, Ducanes, the Fredericks, Beckfords, and Papillons, Burdetts, Batemans, Biddulphs, Bulteels, Carbonnels, Coventrys, the Dominiques, Crisps, Furleys, and the Holfords, to be omitted. The “_Richard Steele_” in the list must have been related to Sir Richard, who was more successful in the advocacy of the rights of trade with his pen than in his multifarious commercial schemes.