Lincoln's Inn -- Ben Jonson's Bricklaying -- Enactments against Beards -- Oliver Cromwell, More, Hale, and other eminent Students of Lincoln's Inn -- Lincoln's Inn Fields, or Square -- Houses there built by Inigo Jones -- Pepys's Admiration of the Comforts of Mr. Povey -- Surgeons' College -- Sir Richard and Lady Fanshawe, and Lord Sandwich -- Execution of the patriotic Lord Russell, with an Account of the Circumstances that led to and accompanied it, and some Remarks on his Character -- Affecting Passages from the Letters of his Widow -- Ludicrous Story connected with Newcastle House 192
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 -- The Three Dukes 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 Mrs. Chapone -- Clare Market -- History, and Specimens, of Orator Henley -- Duke Street and Little Wild Street -- Anecdotes of Dr. Franklin's Residence in those Streets while a Journeyman Printer 225
DRURY LANE, AND THE TWO THEATRES IN DRURY LANE AND COVENT GARDEN.
Craven House -- Donne and his vision -- Lord Craven and the Queen of Bohemia -- Nell Gwynn -- Drury Lane Theatre -- Its antiquity, different eras, and rebuildings -- The principal theatre of Dryden, Wycherley, Farquhar, Steele, Garrick, and Sheridan -- 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 -- Dramatic taste of that 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. Woffington -- 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 -- Improvement of the audience -- Dr. Johnston at the theatre -- Churchill a great pit critic -- His Rosciad -- His picture of Mossop -- Mrs. Jordan and Mr. Suett -- Early recollections of a play-goer 257