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The theatres -- Dorset Gardens -- Its demolition -- Performances -- Lincoln's Inn Fields -- Theatre Royal, Drury Lane -- Its company -- Mrs. Tofts -- The Queen's Theatre, Haymarket -- Its foundation stone -- Its operas -- Pinkethman's theatre at Greenwich -- The Queen and the stage -- Her reforms -- Strolling players -- Behaviour at the theatre -- Orange wenches -- Stage properties -- Actors -- Betterton -- Verbruggen -- Cave Underhill -- Estcourt -- Dogget -- Colley Cibber -- Wilks -- Booth -- Pinkethman -- Minor Actors -- Actresses -- Mrs. Barry -- Mrs. Bracegirdle -- Mrs. Oldfield -- Mrs. Verbruggen -- The ballet 243

OPERAS -- CONCERTS -- MUSIC.

Introduction of Italian opera -- Its rapid popularity -- Mixture of Languages -- Handel -- His operas, and visit here -- Singers -- Abel -- Hughs -- Leveridge -- Lawrence -- Ramondon -- Mrs. Tofts -- Her madness -- Foreign singers -- Margherita de l'Epine -- Nicolino Grimaldi -- Isabella Girardeau -- Composers -- Dr. Blow -- Jeremiah Clarke -- Dean Aldrich -- Tom D'Urfey -- Henry Carey -- Britton, the small coal man -- His concerts -- His death -- Concerts and concert rooms -- Gasparini, the violinist -- Musical instruments -- Musical scores 268

PAINTERS AND ARCHITECTS.

Wollaston -- Murray -- Hugh Howard -- Lewis Crosse -- Luke Craddock -- Charles Jervas -- Richardson -- Sir James Thornhill -- Sir Godfrey Kneller -- Closterman -- Pelegrini -- Sebastian Ricci -- Vander Vaart -- Laguerre -- Dahl -- Boit -- Class of pictures in vogue -- Water Colours -- Drawings -- Engravings -- Sculpture -- Grinling Gibbons -- Architects: Sir C. Wren -- Vanbrugh 279

SCIENCE, ETC.

Its infancy -- Virtuosi -- Gresham College -- Visit to the Royal Society's Museum -- Their curiosities -- Their new house -- Geology -- Experimental philosophy -- Courses of chemistry -- Mathematics -- List of patents -- Hydraulic machinery -- Savery's steam-engine -- Description 286

LITERATURE, THE PRESS, ETC.

MEDICAL.

List of diseases -- Quackery -- Bleeding, etc. -- Physicians -- Surgeons -- Apothecaries -- Dissension between the physicians and apothecaries -- The Dispensary -- Pharmacopoeias -- Some nostrums -- Prescriptions -- Cupping -- Treatment of lunatics -- Physicians' carriages -- Dr. Radcliffe -- Sir Samuel Garth -- Sir Hans Sloane -- Dr. Mead -- His duel with Woodward -- Study of anatomy -- Surgical instruments -- Oculists -- Sir William Read -- Roger Grant -- The Queen touching for the evil -- Description of the ceremony -- Quack remedies -- Quacks' harangues 313

SPAS AND BATHING.

Bath -- Manners of the company there -- Description of Bath -- Its gaieties -- Sale of the water -- Tunbridge -- Epsom -- Hampstead -- Other spas -- Turkish baths -- Controversy on hot and cold bathing -- The Hummums -- Description of a Turkish bath -- Other bagnios -- Cold bathing and baths 329

RELIGIONS.

Inactivity of the Church -- Dulness of Sunday -- Contempt of the clergy -- Low estimation of a chaplain -- Dress of the clergy -- Church furniture -- Traffic in benefices -- Forged Orders -- Dr. Sacheverell -- 'The Modern Champions' -- Queen Anne's Bounty -- Its history -- Fifty new churches -- Protestant tone of Church feeling -- The effigies on Queen Elizabeth's birthday -- Oppression of Roman Catholics -- Religious sects -- Eminent Nonconformists -- Daniel Burgess -- Dislike to Quakers -- Examples -- William Penn 337

LEGAL.

The different branches of the law -- Briefless barristers -- Green bags -- Forensic wigs -- Attorneys -- Knights of the Post -- Lord Somers -- Lord Cowper -- His abolition of New Year's gifts 353

THE RIVER.

Use as a highway -- River slang -- Rates of watermen -- Description of wherries -- Pleasure parties and barges -- The Folly -- Its frequenters -- Gravesend tilt boat -- Fares at the Horse Ferry -- The Fleet Ditch 356

THE STREETS.

Size of London -- Pall Mall -- London in wet weather -- Early morning -- Street cries -- A list of them -- Roguery in the streets -- Orderly regulations -- State of the roads -- Rule of the road -- Street signs -- Description of the streets -- Milkmaids on May Day -- Hyde Park -- Its regulations -- Lighting the streets -- The streets at night 362

CARRIAGES, ETC.

Smithfield -- Horse coursers -- Waggons -- Stage coaches -- Travelling in them described -- Bad roads -- Posting -- Hackney coaches -- Their fares -- Hackney coachmen -- State coaches -- Other carriages -- Suburban drives -- Mechanical coach -- Mourning coaches -- Harness -- Sedan chairs -- Chairmen 372

THE MOHOCKS.

Scourers, etc. -- Bully Dawson -- Two outbreaks -- That in 1712 -- Hawkubites -- Exploits of the Mohocks -- Sir Roger de Coverley -- Swift's fear of them -- Emperor of the Mohocks -- Gog and Magog -- The Queen's proclamation -- Decline of the scare -- Constables and watchmen 382

DUELLING.

Its prevalence -- Bullying -- Fielding's duels -- Favourite localities -- Its illegality -- Col. Thornhill and Sir Cholmley Dering -- Their quarrel and duel -- Duke of Hamilton and Lord Mohun -- Story of their duel 390

THE ARMY AND NAVY.

Sale of commissions -- General practice -- Its illegality -- Arrears of pay -- Descriptions of officers -- Army chaplains -- The rank and file -- Description of them -- Irregularity of pay -- Rations -- Recruiting -- Bounty -- Gaol birds -- Vagrants -- Desertions -- Story of seditious drummers -- Train bands -- The navy -- Its deeds -- Unpopularity of the service -- Pressing -- Desertion -- Rewards for capture -- Pay -- Description of Admiralty -- Mercantile marine 396

CRIME.

Capital punishment -- Its frequency -- An execution described -- Behaviour on the scaffold and way to execution -- Revival after hanging -- 'Peine forte et dure' -- Hanging in chains -- Highwaymen -- Claude du Val lying in state -- Ned Wicks and Lord Mohun -- Their swearing match -- A highwayman hanged -- Highwaymen in society -- Highway robberies -- Footpads -- Burglars -- John Hall -- Benefit of clergy -- Coining -- Pickpockets -- Robbery from children -- Perjury -- Sharpers -- Begging impostors -- Gipsies -- Constables -- Private detectives -- Commercial frauds -- 'Society for the Reformation of Manners' -- Statistics of their convictions -- The pillory -- Ducking stool 407

PRISONS.

Dreadful condition of prisons -- Bridewell -- Description of -- Flogging -- Houses of Correction -- Compters -- Description of the Poultry Compter -- 'Garnish' -- Newgate -- Description of -- Marshalsea -- Queen's Bench -- Fleet and Ludgate -- Poor Debtors -- Kidnappers -- Country prisons -- Bankrupts 425

WORKHOUSES, HOSPITALS, ETC.

The London Workhouse -- Life therein -- Bedlam -- Its building -- Regulations -- Description of interior -- Governors -- Bartholomew Hospital -- St. Thomas's -- Almshouses 435

Lilli-Burlero 439

Hunt the Squirll 439

Moll Peatley 440

A List of all the Persons to whom Rings and Mourning were presented upon the occasion of Mr. Pepys's Death and Burial 441

Lord Mayor's Delight 444

Walsingham 445

The Children in the Wood 445

A List of some of the Coffee-houses in London during Queen Anne's Reign, 1702-14 448

Chocolate-houses 453

Sir Roger de Coverley 453

Roger of Coverly 453

Christ Church Bells in Oxon 454

Cheshire Rounds 455

The Nightingale 455

INDEX 459

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