time had produced a change in the situation of many of Johnson's friends who were used to meet him in Ivy Lane. Death had taken from them M'Ghie; Barker went to settle as a practising physician at Trowbridge; Dyer went abroad; Hawkesworth was busied in forming new connections;

and I had lately made one that removed me from all temptations to pass my evenings from home. The consequence was that our symposiums at the King's Head broke up, and he who had first formed it into a society was left with fewer around him than were able to support it." According to Stow, Ivy Lane derives its name from the ivy which anciently grew on the walls of the prebend houses of St. Paul's, overlooking the lane.

In front of No. 78 in Newgate Street, a house standing on the site of Bull Head Court, is a small sculpture in stone, representing the redoubtable Sir Jeffery Hudson, the favourite dwarf of Queen Henrietta Maria, standing by the side of William Evans, the gigantic porter of Charles the First. The story of Sir Jeffery's having been served up to the king and queen in a cold pie; the anecdote of the big porter drawing him forth from his capacious pocket at a masque at Whitehall; the story

'M'Ghie and Barker were physicians; Samuel Dyer was the eminent scholar to whom the authorship of the "Letters of Junius" has sometimes been absurdly attributed; and Hawkesworth is still better known as the translator of "Telemachus," and one of the principal writers in the Adventurer.

of his bloody duel with Mr. Crofts, and of his imprisonment and death in the Gatehouse at Westminster, we have already related. Glancing, therefore, for a moment at this curious relic of the past, let us turn down Bagnio Court, now called Bath Street, which derives its name from a once fashionable bagnio, the first that was established in London. Strype speaks of it as a "neatly contrived building, after the Turkish fashion, for the purposes of sweating and hot-bathing; and much approved by the physicians of the time." According to Aubrey, it was built and first opened by some Turkish merchants in December, 1679.

The Queen's Arms Tavern in Newgate Street, the site of which is now covered by new buildings for the general post-office, was a favourite resort of Tom d'Urfey, the poet; and at No. 17, at the sign of the Salutation and Cat, Coleridge used to seek a retreat in his youthful and moody days. Here it was that Southey found him out, and remonstrated with him on his culpable supineness, and here Charles Lamb used to share his more social hours.

At the east end of Newgate Street is Pannier Alley, against one of the houses in which is a curious stone, representing a naked boy sitting upon a pannier or basket. On the lower part is inscribed the following doggerel couplet :

"When ye have sought the city round,

Yet still this is the highest ground.

August the 27, 1688."