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THE SECOND VOLUME.

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- The Three Dukes

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Great Queen Street. Former fashionable Houses there. Lewis

and Miss Pope, the Comedians. - . Martin Folkes. Sir Godfrey

Kneller and his Vanity. Dr. Radcliffe. Lord Herbert of

Cherbury. Nuisance of Whetstone Park..

and the Beadle. Rogues and Vagabonds in the Time of

Charles II. · Former Theatres in Vere Street and Portugal

Street. First Appearance of Actresses. - Infamous Deception of

one of them by the Earl of Oxford. Appearance of an avowed

Impostor on the Stage. Anecdotes of the Wits and fine Ladies

of the Time of Charles, connected with the Theatre in this Quarter.

- Kynaston, Betterton, Nokes, Mrs. Barry, Mrs. Mountford, and

other Performers. Rich. Joe Miller.

Carey Street and

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Mrs. Chapone. Clare Market. · History, and Specimens, of

Orator Henley. - Duke Street and Little Wild Street. · Anec-

dotes of Dr. Franklin's Residence in those Streets while a Journey-

man Printer

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DRURY LANE, AND THE TWO THEATRES IN DRURY LANE AND

COVENT GARDEN.

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Craven House. - Donne and his Vision.

Queen of Bohemia. Nell Gwynn. Drury Lane Theatre.—

Its Antiquity, different Eras, and Rebuildings.

- The principal

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Sheridan..

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Dramatic Taste of that

Theatre of Dryden, Wycherly, Farquhar, Steele, Garrick, and

Old Drury in the time of Charles II. — A Visit to

it. Pepys and his Theatrical Gossip, with Notes. - Hart and

Mohun. Goodman. Nell Gwynn.

Age. -Booth. Artificial Tragedy. Wilks and Cibber.

Bullock and Penkethman. - A Colonel enamoured of Cibber's

Wig. Mrs. Oldfield. Her singular Position in Society.

Not the Flavia of the Tatler. - Pope's Account of her last Words

probably not true. Declamatory Acting. Lively Account of

Garrick and Quin by Mr. Cumberland. - Improvement of Stage

Costume. - King. - Mrs. Pritchard. Mrs. Clive. - Mrs. Wof-

fington. - Covent Garden.

Barry. Contradictory Characters

of him by Davies and Churchill. Macklin. Woodward.

Pantomime. English Taste in Music. Cooke. . Rise of

Actors and Actresses in Social Rank.

Audience. Dr. Johnson at the Theatre.

Critic. His Rosciad. His Picture of Mossop. — Mrs. Jordan

and Mr. Suett. - Early Recollections of a Play-goer

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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 Book-

seller. 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.

duction 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. Cliye. - James Street.

Armstrong. - Boswell's Intro-

King

Street. Arne and his Father. The Four Indian Kings.-

- Partridge, the Almanack Maker. - Mysterious Lady.

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- Maiden Lane. — Voltaire. — Long Acre

Southampton Row.

and its Mug-Houses. Prior's Resort there.

- St. Martin's Lane, and Leicester Square.

Newport Street.

Sir Joshua Rey-

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Old Charing Cross, and New St. Martin's Church. Statue of

Charles I. Execution of Regicides. Ben Jonson. Walling-

ford House, now the Admiralty. - Villiers, Duke of Buckingham;

Sir Walter Scott's Account of him. Misrepresentation of Pope

Locket's

respecting his Death. Charles's Horse a Satirist.

Ordinary. Sir George Etherege.

Prior and his Uncle's Tavern.

Thomson.

Mrs. Centlivre. Dorset

Spring Gardens.

Place, and Whitcombe Street, &c., formerly Hedge Lane. — The

Wits and the Bailiff. Suffolk Street. Swift and Miss Van-

homrigh. 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

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CHARING CROSS AND WHITEHALL.

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WOLSEY AND WHITEHALL.

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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

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Henry the Eighth. His Person and Character. Modern Qua-

lifications of it considered. — Passages respecting him from Lingard,

Sir Thomas Wyat, and others. His Additions to Whitehall. -

A Retrospect at Elizabeth.. Court of James resumed. Its gross

Habits. Letter of Sir John Harrington respecting them.

James's Drunkenness. 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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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 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 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.

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Buckingham House.

and his Duchess.- Character of Queen Charlotte. Advantages

of Queen Victoria over her Predecessors

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CHAPTER XII.

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