Ancient State of the Strand -- Butcher Row -- Death of Lee, the dramatic Poet -- Johnson at an Eating-House -- Essex Street -- House and History of the favourite Earl of Essex -- Spenser's Visit there -- Essex, General of the Parliament -- Essex Head Club -- Devereux Court -- Grecian Coffee-House -- Twining, the accomplished Scholar -- St. Clement Danes -- Clement's Inn -- Falstaff and Shallow -- Norfolk, Arundel, Surrey, and Howard Streets -- Norfolk House -- Essex's Ring and the Countess of Nottingham -- William Penn -- Birch -- Dr. Brocklesby -- Congreve, and his Will -- Voltaire's Visit to him -- Mrs. Bracegirdle -- Tragical End of Mountford the Player -- Ancient Cross -- Maypole -- New Church of St. Mary-le-Strand -- Old Somerset House -- Henrietta Maria and her French Household -- Waller's Mishap at Somerset Stairs -- New Somerset House -- Royal Society, Antiquarian Society, and Royal Academy -- Death of Dr. King -- Exeter Street -- Johnson's first Lodging in London -- Art of living in London -- Catherine Street -- Unfortunate Women -- Wimbledon House -- Lyceum and Beef-steak Club -- Exeter Change -- Bed and Baltimore -- The Savoy -- Anecdotes of the Duchess of Albemarle -- Beaufort Buildings -- Lillie, the Perfumer -- Aaron Hill -- Fielding -- Southampton Street -- Cecil and Salisbury Streets -- Durham House -- Raleigh -- Pennant on the Word Place or Palace -- New Exchange -- Don Pantaleon Sa -- The White Milliner -- Adelphi -- Garrick and his Wife -- Beauclerc -- Society of Arts, and Mr. Barry -- Bedford Street -- George, Villiers, and Buckingham Streets -- York House and Buildings -- Squabble between the Spanish and French Ambassadors -- Hungerford Market -- Craven Street -- Franklin -- Northumberland House -- Duplicity of Henry, Earl of Northampton -- Violence of Lord Herbert of Cherbury -- Percy, Bishop of Dromore -- Pleasant mistake of Goldsmith. In going through Fleet Street and the Strand, we seldom think that the one is named after a rivulet, now running under ground, and the other from its being on the banks of the river Thames. As little do most of us fancy that there was once a line of noblemen's houses on the one side, and that, at the same time, all beyond the other side, to Hampstead or Highgate, was open country, with the little hamlet of St. Giles's in a copse. So late as the reign of Henry VIII. we have a print containing the vill a of Charing. Citizens used to take an evening stroll to the well now in St. Clement's Inn.