CONTENTS

CHAPTER

XII. ST. JAMES'S PARK AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS. UNHEALTHI-

NESS OF THE PLACE AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. LEPER

HOSPITAL OF ST. JAMES. HENRY THE EIGHTH

BUILDS ST. JAMES'S PALACE AND THE TILT-YARD.

ORIGINAL STATE AND PROGRESSIVE CHARACTER OF

THE PARK. CHARLES THE FIRST. CROMWELL.

CHARLES THE SECOND: HIS WALKS, AMUSEMENTS,

AND MISTRESSES. THE MULBERRY GARDENS. SWIFT,

PRIOR, RICHARDSON, BEAU TIBBS, SOLDIERS, AND

SYLLABUBS. CHARACTER OF THE PARK AT PRESENT.

ST. JAMES'S PALACE DURING THE REIGNS OF THE

STUARTS AND TWO FIRST GEORGES. ANECDOTES OF

LORD CRAVEN AND PRINCE GEORGE OF DENMARK.

CHARACTERS OF QUEEN ANNE AND OF GEORGE THE

FIRST AND SECOND. GEORGE THE FIRST AND HIS

CARP. LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU AND THE

SACK OF WHEAT. HORACE WALPOLE'S PORTRAIT OF

GEORGE THE FIRST. THE MISTRESSES OF THAT

KING, AND OF HIS SON. MISTAKE OF LORD CHESTER-

FIELD. QUEEN CAROLINE'S LADIES IN WAITING. MISS

BELLENDEN AND THE GUINEAS. GEORGE THE

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SECOND'S RUPTURE WITH HIS FATHER, AND WITH

HIS SON. CHARACTER OF THAT SON. BUCKINGHAM

HOUSE. SHEFFIELD AND HIS DUCHESS. CHARACTER

OF QUEEN CHARLOTTE. ADVANTAGES OF QUEEN VIC-

TORIA OVER HER PREDECESSORS

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ILLUSTRATIONS

Engraved by C. Thurston Thompson

from drawings by

J. W. Archer and C. T. Thompson

LONDON FROM SOUTHWARK, BEFORE THE GREAT FIRE. FROM A

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PRINT BY HOLLAR

facing title

A WINDOW GARDEN

27

WEST FRONT OF OLD ST. PAUL'S, WITH INIGO JONES'S PORTICO

32

STONE IN PANYER ALLEY, MARKING THE HIGHEST GROUND IN

THE CITY

105

INTERIOR OF THE ROUND PART OF THE TEMPLE CHURCH,

PREVIOUS TO THE RECENT RESTORATIONS

128

HOUSE IN BOLT COURT, FLEET STREET, THE LAST RESIDENCE OF

DR JOHNSON, 1810

159

OLD NORTHUMBERLAND HOUSE, FROM THE RIVER. TEMP.

CHARLES I.

240

EXETER CHANGE AS IT APPEARED JUST BEFORE IT WAS PULLED

DOWN

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NEWCASTLE HOUSE, NORTH-WEST CORNER OF LINCOLN'S INN

FIELDS, 1796

291

ILLUSTRATIONS

OLD HOUSES IN GREAT QUEEN STREET, LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS,

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THE THEATRE IN PORTUGAL STREET, LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS,

INIGO JONES'S CHURCH AND COVENT GARDEN. TEMP. JAMES II.
FROM A PRINT OF THE PERIOD

439

HOUSE IN ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LEICESTER SQUARE, FORMERLY
THE RESIDENCE OF SIR ISAAC NEWTON, 1810

480

THE VILLAGE OF CHARING. FROM AGGAS'S MAP, 1578

482

SCOTLAND YARD, AS IT APPEARED IN 1750.

FROM A PRINT

AFTER PAUL SANDBY

508

OLD PALACE OF WHITEHALL, FROM THE RIVER. TEMP. CHARLES I.
FROM A PRINT OF THE PERIOD

to face page

520

OLD GATE OF WHITEHALL PALACE, DESIGNED BY HOLBEIN.
FROM A PRINT BY HOLLAR

547

THE BANQUETING HOUSE, WHITEHALL

572

ST. JAMES'S PALACE, 1650. FROM A PRINT BY HOLLAR

IN one of those children's books which contain reading fit for the manliest, and which we have known to interest very grave and even great men, there is a pleasant chapter entitled Eyes and no Eyes, or the Art of Seeing. The two heroes of it come home successively from a walk in the same road, one of them having seen only a heath and a hill, and the meadows by the water-side, and therefore having seen nothing; the other expatiating on his delightful ramble, because the heath presented him with curious birds, and the hill with the remains of a camp, and the meadows with reeds, and rats, and herons, and kingfishers, and sea-shells, and a man catching eels, and a glorious sunset.

In like manner people may walk through a crowded city, and see nothing but the crowd. A man may go from Bond Street to Blackwall, and unless he has the luck to witness an accident, or get a knock from a porter's burthen, may be conscious, when he has returned, of nothing but the names of those two places, and of the mud through which he has passed. Nor is this to be attributed to dullness. He may, indeed, be dull. The eyes of his understanding may be like bad spectacles,