AND ITS CELEBRITIES

BY

JOHN HENEAGE JESSE

WITH SEVEN ILLUSTRATIONS

IN THREE VOLUMES

VOLUME THE SECOND

LONDON

JOHN C. NIMMO

14 KING WILLIAM STREET, STRAND

MDCCCCI

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St. Bartholomew's Priory and Church When Built-Its

Present Appearance - Refectory, Crypt, and Subterra-

nean 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 Resi-

dence Prior Bolton's Residence — Bartholomew Fair. II

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CHAPTER II.

THE CHARTER HOUSE.

Charter House Originally a Burial-ground

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Manny Founds a Carthusian Monastery There - Dread-

ful Punishments Inflicted on the Carthusians by Henry

the Eighth Charter House Purchased by Duke of

Norfolk I Given to Earl of Suffolk History of Sir

Thomas Sutton, Founder of the Present Charter House

Scholars and Pensioners - Old Court-room- Charter

House Square.

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CHAPTER III.

ST. JOHN'S GATE, CLERKENWELL, ETC.

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

dote of Doctor Johnson and Cave - St. John's Gate now

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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 - New-

castle House

Hockley in the Hole

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Bagnigge Wells Sadler's Wells

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CHAPTER IV.

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

Cock Lane Ghost- Holborn-William Dobson - Death of

John Bunyan - Snow Hill-Shoe Lane-Gunpowder

Alley Lovelace and Lilly - Fetter Lane Residents in

Fetter Lane Hatton Garden - Ely House - South-

ampton Buildings - St. Andrew's Church - Brooke

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Street Gray's Inn Lane - Celebrated Residents There

-Blue Boar Inn - Anecdote of Charles the First and

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CHAPTER V.

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

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- Sir Christopher Hatton and the Bishops of Ely-

Gray's Inn and Gardens Masques Performed at Gray's

Inn - Famous Masque - Celebrated Men Who Studied

at Gray's Inn - Thavie's Inn - Furnival Inn - Staple

Inn Barnard's Inn - Gordon Riots

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RED LION SQUARE, GREAT ORMOND STREET, BLOOMSBURY

SQUARE, ETC.

Cromwell's Supposed Grave in Red Lion Square - Lamb's

Conduit Fields Great Ormond Street - Queen Square

- Southampton Row - Bloomsbury Square - Burning

of Lord Mansfield's House - Celebrated Persons Who

Lived in Bloomsbury Square

Great Russell Street

Highway Robberies

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- Montague House, now the British

Museum Duchess of Montague

CHAPTER VII.

CHEAPSIDE.

Cheapside at an Early Period Called the "Crown Field"

Tournaments Held There Persons Executed at the

Standard in Cheapside

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"Evil May-day "— Elizabeth's

Coronation Procession The Cross-The Conduit -

and Entertainments There- St. Mary-le-Bow-" Crown

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

of Sanctuary There Northumberland House

Paul's Churchyard 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' Com-

mons Ludgate Hill - The Belle Sauvage

Gwynn-St. Martin, Ludgate .

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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 —