Covent Garden-The Church-Car, Earl of Somerset-

Butler, Southerne, Estcourt, Sir Robert Strange-

Macklin-Curious Dialogue with him when past a

century-Dr. Wolcot-Covent Garden Market-Story

of Lord Sandwich, Hackman, and Miss Ray-Henrietta

Street-Mrs. Clive-James Street-Partridge, the

almanac-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. Mar-

tin's Lane, and Leicester Square-Sir Joshua Reynolds-

Hogarth-Sir Isaac Newton

CHAPTER IX

CHARING CROSS AND WHITEHALL

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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 Whitcomb 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 . 416

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-Impor-

tance of his Hat-Cavendish's Account of his household

State, his goings forth in Public, and his entertainments

of the King

448

CONTENTS

CHAPTER XI

HENRY VIII TO JAMES II

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Henry the Eighth-His Person and Character-Modern

Qualifications of it considered-Passages respecting him

from Lingard, Sir Thomas Wyatt, and others-His

additions to Whitehall-A Retrospect of Elizabeth-

Court of James resumed-Its gross Habits-Letter of

Sir John Harrington respecting them-James's Drunken-

ness-Testimonies of Welldon, Sully, and Roger Coke-

Curious Omission in the Invective of Churchill the Poet-

Welldon's Portrait of James-Buckingham, the Favourite

-Frightful Story of Somerset-Masques-Banqueting

House-Inigo Jones and Ben Jonson-Court of Charles

the First-Cromwell-Charles the Second-James the

Second
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CHAPTER XII

ST. JAMES'S PARK AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS

St. James's Park and its Associations-Unhealthiness 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 first two 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 Chesterfield

-Queen Caroline's Ladies in Waiting-Miss Bellenden

and the Guineas-George the 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

Victoria over her Predecessors

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(From a water-colour drawing by G. Shepherd, dated 1805 in the Soane Museum)