CONTENTS OP THE SECOND VOLUME. Haymarket.-Haymarket Theatre.-Suffolk House.- Leicester Square. Anecdote of Goldsmith. St. Martin's Covent Garden Market. "Old Hummums.”—St. Paul's Covent Garden.-Russell Street and its Coffee Houses.-Bow, Drury Lane.-Drury House.-Wych Street.-Drury Lane Theatre.-Long Acre.-Phoenix Alley.-Queen Street.- Statue of Charles the First.-Execution of General Harrison and Hugh Peters.-Anecdotes of Lord Rochester and Richard Savage.-Old Royal Mews.-Cockspur and Warwick Streets.-Scotland Yard.-Attempt to assassinate By whom originally built.-The residence of Cardinal Wolsey, Henry the Eighth, Edward the Sixth, Queen Elizabeth, and James the First.-Banqueting House.- The Thames in ancient Times.-Thames by Moonlight.- Old Palace of Whitehall.-Northumberland, York, Durham, Salisbury, Worcester, and Somerset Houses.-Temple Garden. Description of the Fortress.-Its principal Bulwarks.— Tower Chapel.-Traitor's Gate.-Kings who built, enlarged, ILLUSTRATION S. TOWER OF LONDon, in the ReigN OF HENRY V. to face the Title. PLAN OF ST. GILES'S IN THE FIELDS, TIME OF QUEEN ELIZABETH,. ..page 102 213 PLAN OF THE PALACE OF WHITEHALL, 1680,................ LITERARY AND HISTORICAL MEMORIALS OF LONDON. THE HAYMARKET, LEICESTER SQUARE, AND ST. MARTIN'S IN THE FIELDS. HAYMARKET.-HAYMARKET THEATRE.-SUFFOLK HOUSE.-LEICESTER SQUARE. ANECDOTE OF GOLDSMITH.-ST. MARTIN'S LANE, CHURCH, AND CHURCHYARD. -SOHO SQUARE.-WARDour, AND OXFORD STREETS.-RATHBONE PLACE. As late as the last days of the Protectorate, the tract of ground to the north, between Pall Mall and the villages of Hampstead and Highgate, consisted almost entirely of open country. St. Martin's Church stood literally in the fields; Whitcombe Street was then Hedge Lane; St. Martin's Lane and the Haymarket were really shady lanes with hedges on each side of them; the small village of St. Giles stood in the fields a little to the east; a windmill, surrounded by one or two scattered dwelling-houses, was to be seen where the present Windmill Street now stands; Leicester Square was occupied by VOL. II. B |