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CONTENTS OF VOL. III.

ST. GILES'S CRIPPLEGATE, BARBER-SURGEONS'

HALL, FORTUNE THEATRE.

Antiquity of St. Giles's Cripplegate Church.--Celebrated Men

buried there: Speed,--John Fox,-Robert Glover,—Sir Martin

Frobisher, William Bulleyn, Milton, Margaret Lucy,-

Thomas Busby.--Monkwell Street.-Barber-Surgeons' Hall.—

Silver Street. Sion College.-Wood Street.--St. Mary, Alder-

manbury.-Judge Jefferys.-Thomas Farnaby.-Jewin Street.

-Aldersgate Street. Shaftesbury, Petre, and Lonsdale

Houses.-Milton.-Barbican.-Fortune Theatre

Smithfield Cattle Market in former times the place for Tourna-

ments, Trials by Battle, Executions and Autos-da-Fè.-Tourna-

ments before Edward the Third and Richard the Second.--

Trials by Duel between Catour and Davy, and the Bastard of

Burgundy and Lord Scales.-Remarkable Executions.-Persons

who suffered Martyrdom in the Flames at Smithfield.--Inter-

view there between Wat Tyler and Richard the Second.-Sir

William Walworth

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THE PRIORY AND CHURCH OF ST. BARTHOLOMEW.

St. Bartholomew's Priory and Church-When built-Its Present

Appearance-Refectory, Crypt, and Subterranean Passage.-

Bartholomew Close.-Monuments in the Church.-Story of

Rahere, Founder of the Priory.-Fracas in the Priory.-St.

Bartholomew's Hospital.-Canonbury.-Canonbury Tower.-

Goldsmith's Residence.-Prior Bolton's Residence.-Bartholo-

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THE CHARTER HOUSE.

Charter House Originally a Burial-Ground. - Sir Walter de

Manny founds a Carthusian Monastery there. Dreadful

Punishments inflicted on the Carthusians by Henry the

Eighth. — Charter House purchased by Duke of Norfolk.

Given to Earl of Suffolk. -- History of Sir Thomas Sutton,

Founder of the Present Charter House.-Scholars and Pen-

sioners.-Old Court Room.-Charter House Square

ST. JOHN'S GATE, CLERKENWELL, &c.

St. John's Gate.-Becomes the Residence of Cave.-Anecdote

of Dr. Johnson and Cave.-St. John's Gate now converted

into a Public House.-History of the Knights of St. John of

Jerusalem. The Order suppressed.-St. James, Clerkenwell.

-Monuments there. - Derivation of Name of Clerkenwell.

-Sir Thomas Chaloner.-Newcastle House.-Bagnigge Wells.

-Sadler's Wells.-Hockley in the Hole ...

HOLBORN, ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH, GRAY'S INN

Cock Lane Ghost.-Holborn.-William Dobson.-Death of John

Bunyan. Snow Hill.-Shoe Lane.-Gunpowder Alley.-Love-

lace and Lilly.-Fetter Lane.-Residents in Fetter Lane.—

Hatton Garden.-Ely House.-Southampton Buildings.-St.

Andrew's Church.-Brook Street.-Gray's Inn Lane.--Cele-

brated Residents there.-Blue Boar Inn.-Anecdote of Charles

the First and Cromwell.-Birth of Savage.-King Street.

ELY HOUSE, GRAY'S INN, THAVIE'S INN,

STAPLE INN, BARNARD'S INN.

Ely House in its Splendour.-Its Inhabitants.-Protector Glou-

cester.-Bishops of Ely.-Feastings in Ely House.-Sir Chris-

topher Hatton and the Bishops of Ely.-Gray's Inn and Gar-

dens. Masques performed at Gray's Inn.-Famous Masque.

-Celebrated Men who studied at Gray's Inn.-Thavie's Inn.—

Furnival's Inn.-Staple Inn.-Barnard's Inn.-Gordon Riots... 98

RED LION SQUARE, GREAT ORMOND STREET,

BLOOMSBURY SQUARE, &c.

Cromwell's supposed Grave in Red Lion Square.-Lamb's Con-

duit Fields.-Great Ormond Street.-Queen Square.-South-

ampton Row.-Bloomsbury Square.-Burning of Lord Mans-

field's House.--Celebrated Persons who lived in Bloomsbury

Square.--Highway Robberies.-Great Russell Street.-Monta-

gue House, now the British Museum.-Duchess of Montague 123

Cheapside at an Early Period called the "Crown Field.”-

Tournaments held there.-Persons executed at the Standard

in Cheapside. "Evil May-Day."-Elizabeth's Coronation Pro-

cession. The Cross.-The Conduit.-Celebrated Residents in

Cheapside. Streets in the Vicinity." Mermaid Tavern."-

Guildhall.—Trial-scenes, and Entertainments there.-St. Mary-

le-Bow.—“Crown Seld."-Watling Street.-Goldsmiths' and

Coachmakers' Hall

NEIGHBOURHOOD OF ST. PAUL'S.

Old Church of St. Martin's-le-Grand.-Abuse of Privilege of

Sanctuary there.-Northumberland House.--St. Paul's Church-

yard a Residence of Publishers.-Burning of Books there

during the Great Fire.-Execution of Sir Everard Digby.—

Queen Anne.-Paternoster Row.-Lovell's Court.-Warwick

Lane. Archbishop Leighton.-St. Paul's School.-Heralds'

College. Doctors' Commons. - Ludgate Hill.-The "Belle

Sauvage."-Nell Gwynn.-St. Martin, Ludgate...

ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL.

Wren's Discoveries when digging the Foundation of St. Paul's.

-Supposed to have been built on the site of a Roman Temple.

-History of the Old Structures.-Church of St. Faith.-

Bishop of London's Palace.-Lollards' Tower.-Wickliffe in St.

Paul's. "Paul's Walkers" or "Paul's Men."-Tombs in Old

St. Paul's.-Paul's Cross.--Remarkable Events there.-Present

St. Paul's.-Sir Christopher Wren...

THE OLD BAILEY, NEWGATE, CHRIST'S HOSPITAL,

ST. SEPULCHRE'S CHURCH.

Derivation of name Old Bailey. Great Antiquity of Court of

Justice there.-The Press Yard.-"Peine Forte et Dure."-

Major Strangeways.-Gaol Fever. Newgate Prison. Ivy

Lane.-Pannier Alley.-Old Christ Church, Newgate.--Persons

interred there.-Modern Christ Church, Newgate.-Christ's

Hospital. St. Sepulchre's Church. - Curious Ceremony at

Executions. Pie Corner.-Green Arbour Court

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St. Bride's Church.-Persons interred there.-Salisbury Court.-

Richardson the Novelist.-Gough Square.-Anecdote of Dr.

Johnson. Johnson's Court and Bolt Court. Wine-Office

Court. Anecdote of Goldsmith.-Old Conduit in Fleet Street.

-Bangor House.—Mitre Court.—Crane Court.-Devil Tavern,

and its Celebrated Frequenters.-Residences of Eminent Men

in Fleet Street.--Chancery Lane.-Shire Lane.-Anecdote of

Coleridge.-Kit-Cat Club.-St. Dunstan's Church.-Its Old

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The Fleet used as a State Prison at an early date.-Persons

incarcerated there: Bishops Gardiner and Hooper, Dr.

Donne, Martin Keys, -Prynne, Lilburne,-James Howell,

Lords Surrey and Falkland,-Sir Richard Baker,-Oldys,-

Wycherley, Sandford.-Tyranny and Tortures practised in

the Prison.--General Oglethorpe.-Prison burnt at the Great

Fire. Fleet Marriages.-Keith, the Notorious Fleet Parson... 271

The Knights Templars.-The Origin, Habits, Duties, and His-

tory of the Order.-Temple Church.- Effigies there.-Temple

Gardens.-The White and Red Rose.-Inner and Middle Tem-

ple Halls.-Temple Lawyers.-Inner Temple Gate and Lane.

-Drs. Goldsmith and Johnson's Rooms.-King's Bench Walk.

Eminent Residents in the Temple

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