{"product_id":"2940015757439","title":"HAUNTED LONDON","description":"CONTENTS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION                                          pp. 1-3\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHAPTER II. TEMPLE BAR.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    The Devil Tavern--London Bankers and Goldsmiths--A Whim\u003cbr\u003e    of John Bushnell, the Sculptor--Irritating Processions--\u003cbr\u003e    The Bonfire at Inner Temple Gate--A Barbarous Custom--\u003cbr\u003e    Called to the Bar--A Curious Old Print of 1746--The\u003cbr\u003e    White Cockades--An Execution on Kennington Common--\u003cbr\u003e    Shenstone’s “Jemmy Dawson”--Counsellor Layer--Dr.\u003cbr\u003e    Johnson in the Abbey--The Proclamation of the Peace of\u003cbr\u003e    Amiens--The Dispersion of the Armada--City Pageants and\u003cbr\u003e    Festivities--The Guildhall--The Guildhall Twin Giants--\u003cbr\u003e    Proclamation of War--A Reflection                             pp. 4-24\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHAPTER III. THE STRAND (SOUTH SIDE).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Essex Street--Beheading a Bishop--Exeter Place--The\u003cbr\u003e    Gipsy Earl--Running a-muck--Lettice Knollys--A Portrait\u003cbr\u003e    of Essex--Robert, Earl of Essex, the Parliamentary\u003cbr\u003e    General--The Poisoning of Overbury--An Epicurean\u003cbr\u003e    Doctor--Clubable Men--The Grecian--The Templar’s\u003cbr\u003e    Lounge--Tom’s Coffee-house--A Princely Collector--“The\u003cbr\u003e    Long Strand”--“Honest Shippen”--Boswell’s Enthusiasm--\u003cbr\u003e    Sale and the Koran--The Infamous Lord Mohun--A fine\u003cbr\u003e    Rebuke--Jacob Tonson                                         pp. 25-55\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHAPTER IV. SOMERSET HOUSE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    The Protector Somerset--Denmark House--The Queen’s\u003cbr\u003e    French Servants--The Lying-in-State of Cromwell--Scenes\u003cbr\u003e    at Somerset House--Sir Edmondbury Godfrey--Old Somerset\u003cbr\u003e    House--Erection of the Modern Building--Carlini’s\u003cbr\u003e    Grandeur--A Hive of Red Tapists--Expensive Auditing--The\u003cbr\u003e    Royal Society--The Geological and the Antiquarian\u003cbr\u003e    Societies--A Legend of Somerset House--St. Martin’s Lane\u003cbr\u003e    Academy--An Insult to Engravers--Rebecca’s Practical\u003cbr\u003e    Jokes--A Fashionable Man actually Surprised--Lying in\u003cbr\u003e    State                                                        pp. 56-81\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHAPTER V. THE STRAND (SOUTH SIDE, CONTINUED).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    The Folly--Fountain Court and Tavern--The Coal-hole--The\u003cbr\u003e    Kit-cat Club--Coutts’s Bank--The Eccentric Philosopher--\u003cbr\u003e    Old Salisbury House--Robert the Devil--Little Salisbury\u003cbr\u003e    House--Toby Matthew--Ivy Bridge--The Strand Exchange--\u003cbr\u003e    Durham House--Poor Lady Jane--The Parochial Mind--A\u003cbr\u003e    Strange Coalition--Garrick’s Haunt--Shipley’s School of\u003cbr\u003e    Art--Barry’s Temper--The Celestial Bed--Sir William\u003cbr\u003e    Curtis                                                      pp. 82-105\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHAPTER VI. THE SAVOY.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    The Earl of Savoy--John Wickliffe--A French King\u003cbr\u003e    Prisoner--The Kentish Rebellion--John of Gaunt--The\u003cbr\u003e    Hospital of St. John--Cowley’s Regrets--Secret\u003cbr\u003e    Marriages--Conference between Church of England and\u003cbr\u003e    Presbyterian Divines--An Illegal Sanctuary--A Lampooned\u003cbr\u003e    General--A Fat Adonis--John Rennie--Waterloo Bridge--The\u003cbr\u003e    Duchy of Lancaster                                         pp. 106-125\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHAPTER VII. FROM THE SAVOY TO CHARING CROSS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    York House--Lord Bacon--“To the Man with an Orchard give\u003cbr\u003e    an Apple”--“Steenie”--Buckingham Street--Zimri--York\u003cbr\u003e    Stairs--Pepys and Etty--Scenery on the Banks of the\u003cbr\u003e    Thames--The London Lodging of Peter the Great--The Czar\u003cbr\u003e    and the Quakers--The Hungerford Family--The Suspension\u003cbr\u003e    Bridge--Grinling Gibbons--The Two Smiths--Cross\u003cbr\u003e    Readings--Northumberland Street--Armed Clergymen           pp. 126-145\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHAPTER VIII. THE NORTH SIDE OF THE STRAND (FROM TEMPLE BAR TO CHARING\u003cbr\u003e  CROSS).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Faithorne, the Engraver--The Stupendous Arch--The Murder\u003cbr\u003e    of Miss Ray--One of Wren’s Churches--Thomas Rymer--Dr.\u003cbr\u003e    Johnson at Church--Shallow’s Revelry--Low Comedy\u003cbr\u003e    Preachers--New Inn--Alas! poor Yorick!--The first\u003cbr\u003e    Hackney Coaches--Doyley--The Beef-steak Club--Beef and\u003cbr\u003e    Liberty--Madame Vestris--Old Thomson--Irene in a\u003cbr\u003e    Garret--Mathews at the Adelphi--The Bad Points of\u003cbr\u003e    Mathew’s Acting--The Old Adelphi--A Riot in a Theatre--\u003cbr\u003e    Dr. Johnson’s Eccentricities                               pp. 146-189\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHAPTER IX. CHARING CROSS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    The Gunpowder Plot--Lord Herbert’s Chivalry--A Schoolboy\u003cbr\u003e    Legend--Goldsmith’s Audience--Dobson Buried in a\u003cbr\u003e    Garret--Charing--Queen Eleanor--A Brave Ending--\u003cbr\u003e    Great-hearted Colonel Jones--King Charles at Charing\u003cbr\u003e    Cross--A Turncoat--A Trick of Curll’s--The Cock Lane\u003cbr\u003e    Ghost--Savage the Poet--The Mews--The Nelson Column","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47182007730416,"sku":"2940015757439","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015757439","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}