CONTENTS.
Introduction
CHAPTER I.
ROMAN LONDON
Buried London — Our Early Relations — The Founder of London — A Distinguished Visitor at Romney Marsh — Caesar re-visits the "Town on the Lake" — The Borders of Old London — Caesar fails to make much out of the Britons — King Brown — The Derivation of the Name of London— The Queen of the Iceni — London Stone and London Roads — London's Earlier and Newer Walls — The Site of St. Paul's — Fabulous Claims to Idolatrous Renown — Existing Relics of Roman London — Treasures from the Bed of the Thames — What we Tread underfoot in London — A vast Field of Story
CHAPTER II.
TEMPLE BAR.
Temple Bar — The Golgotha of English Traitors — When Temple Bar was made of Wood — Historical Pageants at Temple Bar — The Associations of Temple Bar — Mischievous Processions through Temple Bar — The First Grim Trophy — Rye-House Plot Conspirators
CHAPTER III.
FLEET STREET:— GENERAL INTRODUCTION. Frays in Fleet Street — Chaucer and the Friar — The Duchess of Gloucester doing Penance for Witchcraft — Riots between Law Students and Citizens — 'Prentice Riots — Dates in the Pillory — Entertainments in Fleet Street — Shop Signs — Burning the Boot — Trial of Hardy — Queen Caroline's Funeral
CHAPTER IV.
FLEET STREET (continued)
Dr. Johnson in Ambuscade at Temple Bar — The First Child — Dryden and Black Will — Rupert's Jewels – Telson's Bank — The Apollo Club at the "Devil" — "Old Sir Simon the King" — "Mull Sack" — Dr. Johnson's Supper to Mrs. Lennox — Will Waterproof at the "Cock" — The Duel at "Dick's Coffee House" — Lintot's Shop — Pope and Warburton — Lamb and the Albion — The Palace of Cardinal Wolsey — Mrs. Salmon's Waxwork — Isaak Walton — Praed's Bank – Murray and Byron — St. Dunstan's — Fleet Street Printers — Hoare's Bank and the "Golden Bottle"— The Real and Spurious "Mitre"— Hone's Trial — Cobbett's Shop — "Peele's Coffee House"
CHAPTER V.
FLEET STREET (continued). The " Green Dragon" — Tompion and Pinchbeck — The Record — St. Bride's and its Memories — Punch and his Contributors —The Dispatch — The Daily Telegraph — The "Globe Tavern" and Goldsmith — The Morning Advertiser — The Standard — The London Magazine — A Strange Story— Alderman Waithman — Brutus Billy— Hardham and his " 37"
CHAPTER VI.
FLEET STREET (NORTHERN TRIBUTARIES— SHIRE LANE AND BELL YARD).
The Kit-Kat Club — The Toast for the Year — Little Lady Mary— Drunken John Sly — Garth's Patients — Club Removed to Barn Elms — Steele at the "Trumpet" — Rogues' Lane — Murder — Beggars' Haunts — Thieves' Dens — Coiners — Theodore Hook in Hemp's Sponging-house — Pope in Bell Yard — Minor Celebrities — Apollo Court
CHAPTER VII.
FLEET STREET (NORTHERN TRIBUTARIES — CHANCERY LANE).
The Asylum for Jewish Converts — The Rolls Chapel — Ancient Monuments — A Speaker Expelled for Bribery — "Remember Caesar" —Trampling on a Master of the Rolls — Sir William Grant's Oddities — Sir John Leach — Funeral of Lord Gifford — Mrs. Clark and the Duke of York — Wokey in his Pomp — Strafford — "Honest Isaak" — The Lord Keeper — Lady Fanshawe — Jack Randal — Serjeants' Inn — An Evening with Hazlitt at the " Southampton" — Charles Lamb — Sheridan — The Sponging Houses — The Law Institute — A Tragical Story
CHAPTER VIII.
FLEET STREET (NORTHERN TRIBUTARIES— continued).
Clifford's Inn — Dyer's Chambers — The Settlement after the Great Fire — Peter Wilkins and his Flying Wives — Fetter Lane — Waller's Plot and its Victims — Praise-God Barebone and his Doings — Charles Lamb at School — Hobbes the Philosopher — A Strange Marriage — Mrs Brownrigge — Paul Whitehead — The Moravians — The Record Office and its Treasures — Rival Poets
