Bow Street once the Bond Street of London -- Fashions at that time -- Infamous frolic of Sir Charles Sedley and others -- Wycherly and the Countess of Drogheda -- Tonson the Bookseller -- Fielding -- Russell Street -- Dryden beaten by hired ruffians in Rose Street -- His Presidency at Will's Coffee-House -- Character of that Place -- Addison and Button's Coffee-House -- Pope, Philips, and Garth -- Armstrong -- Boswell's introduction to Johnson -- The Hummums -- Ghost Story there -- Covent Garden -- The Church -- Car, Earl of Somerset -- Butler, Southern, Eastcourt, Sir Robert Strange -- Macklin -- Curious Dialogue with him when past a century -- Dr. Walcot -- Covent Garden Market -- Story of Lord Sandwich, Hackman, and Miss Ray -- Henrietta Street -- Mrs. Clive -- James Street -- Partridge, the almanack-maker -- Mysterious lady -- King Street -- Arne and his Father -- The four Indian Kings -- Southampton Row -- Maiden Lane -- Voltaire -- Long Acre and its Mug-Houses -- Prior's resort there -- Newport Street -- St. Martin's Lane, and Leicester Square -- Sir Joshua Reynolds -- Hogarth -- Sir Isaac Newton 306 CHAPTER IX. CHARING CROSS AND WHITEHALL. Old Charing Cross, and New St. Martin's Church -- Statue of Charles I. -- Execution of Regicides -- Ben Jonson -- Wallingford House, now the Admiralty -- Villiers, Duke of Buckingham; Sir Walter Scott's Account of him -- Misrepresentation of Pope respecting his Death -- Charles's Horse a Satirist -- Locket's Ordinary -- Sir George Etherege -- Prior and his Uncle's Tavern -- Thomson -- Spring Gardens -- Mrs. Centlivre -- Dorset Place, and Whitcombe Street, &c., formerly Hedge Lane -- The Wits and the Bailiffs -- Suffolk Street -- Swift and Miss Vanhomrigh -- Calves' Head Club, and the Riot it occasioned -- Scotland Yard -- Pleasant Advertisement -- Beau Fielding, and his Eccentricities -- Vanbrugh -- Desperate Adventure of Lord Herbert of Cherbury 355 CHAPTER X. WOLSEY AND WHITEHALL. Regal Character of Whitehall -- York Place -- Personal and Moral Character of Wolsey -- Comparison of him with his Master, Henry -- His Pomp and Popularity -- Humorous Account of his Flatterers by Sir Thomas More -- Importance of his Hat -- Cavendish's Account of his household State, his goings forth in Public, and his entertainments of the King 382 CHAPTER XI.