Chapter VIII

COVENT GARDEN CONTINUED AND LEICESTER SQUARE.

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.

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 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 395