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THE TOWER OF LONDON IN THE REIGN OF HENRY THE FIFTH.
- llustrating the Captivity of Charles. Voke of Kleans
Ber 4
LITERARY
AND HISTORICAL
MEMORIALS OF LONDON.
66
BY J. HENEAGE JESSE.
AUTHOR OF MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF ENGLAND," GEORGE SELWYN
AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES," 99 66 THE PRETENDERS AND THEIR
RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET, Publisher in Ordinary to Der Majesty.
1847.
CONTENTS
OF
THE SECOND VOLUME.
THE HAYMARKET, LEICESTER SQUARE, AND ST.
MARTIN'S IN THE FIELDS.
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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.
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COVENT GARDEN.
Covent Garden Market.-"Old Hummums."-St. Paul's
Covent Garden.-Russell Street and its Coffee Houses.-Bow,
James, King, Rose, Bedford, and Henrietta Streets.-Maiden
Lane. Southampton and Tavistock Streets.
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DRURY LANE AND CONTIGUOUS STREETS.
Drury Lane.-Drury House.-Wych Street.-Drury Lane
Theatre. Long Acre.-Phoenix Alley.-Queen Street.-
Lincoln's Inn Fields.-Portugal Street.-Duke Street.-St.
Giles's Church and Churchyard.
VOL. II.
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CHARING CROSS AND WHITEHALL.
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
Lord Herbert.-Sir John Denham.-Wallingford House.-
Dukes of Buckingham.-Admiralty.
THE OLD PALACE OF WHITEHALL.
By whom originally built.-The residence of Cardinal
Wolsey, Henry the Eighth, Edward the Sixth, Queen
Elizabeth, and James the First.-Banqueting House.-
Whitehall, the Residence of Charles the First, Cromwell,
James the Second, and Queen Mary.
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THE THAMES AT LONDON.
The Thames in ancient Times.-Thames by Moonlight.-
Old Palace of Whitehall.-Northumberland, York, Durham,
Salisbury, Worcester, and Somerset Houses.-Temple Garden.
Alsatia.—Bridewell.-Baynard's Castle.-Queenhithe.—
Bankside.-Water Processions.
THE TOWER.
Description of the Fortress.-Its principal Bulwarks.-
Tower Chapel.-Traitor's Gate.-Kings who built, enlarged,
and lived in it.-Distinguished Prisoners whose Misfortunes
or Crimes have thrown a deep Interest over its Dungeons.
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