The Town: Its Memorable Characters and EventsHunt, Leigh
History
The Town: Its Memorable Characters and Events
Hunt, Leigh
London (England) -- Description and travel; London (England) -- History
The Church of St. Faith -- Booksellers of the Churchyard -- Mr.
Johnson's -- Mr. Newberry's -- Children's Books -- Clerical
Names of Streets near St. Paul's -- Swift at the top of the
Cathedral -- Dr Johnson at St. Paul's -- Paternoster Row --
Panyer's Alley -- Stationers' Hall -- Almanacks --
Knight-Riders' Street -- Armed Assemblies of the Citizens --
Doctor's Commons -- The Heralds' College -- Coats of Arms --
Ludgate -- Story of Sir Stephen Forster -- Prison of Ludgate --
Wyatt's Rebellion -- The Belle Sauvage Inn -- Blackfriars --
Shakspeare's Theatre -- Accident at Blackfriars in 1623 --
Printing House Square -- The Times -- Baynard's Castle -- Story
of the Baron Fitzwalter -- Richard III. and Buckingham --
Diana's Chamber -- The Royal Wardrobe -- Marriages in the Fleet
-- Fleet Ditch -- The Dunciad 52
CHAPTER III.
FLEET STREET.
Burning of the Pope -- St. Bride's Steeple -- Milton --
Illuminated Clock -- Melancholy End of Lovelace the Cavalier --
Chatterton -- Generosity of Hardham, of Snuff Celebrity --
Theatre in Dorset Garden -- Richardson, his Habits and
Character -- Whitefriars, or Alsatia -- The Temple -- Its
Monuments, Garden, &c. -- Eminent names connected with it --
Goldsmith dies there -- Boswell's first Visit there to Johnson
-- Johnson and Madame de Boufflers -- Bernard Lintot -- Ben
Jonson's Devil Tavern -- Other Coffee-houses and Shops --
Goldsmith and Temple-bar -- Shire Lane, Bickerstaff, and the
Deputation from the Country -- The Kit-Kat Club -- Mrs. Salmon
-- Isaac Walton -- Cowley -- Chancery Lane, Lord Strafford, and
Ben Jonson -- Serjeant's Inn -- Clifford's Inn -- The Rolls --
Sir Joseph Jekyll -- Church of St. Dunstan in the West --
Dryden's House in Fetter Lane -- Johnson, the Genius Loci of
Fleet Street -- His Way of Life -- His Residence in Gough
Square, Johnson's Court, and Bolt Court -- Various Anecdotes of
him connected with Fleet Street, and with his favourite Tavern,
the Mitre 84
CHAPTER IV.
THE STRAND.
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