Chapter 9

152Mansion Houses,88-90MSS., illuminated,124,188Marble Arch,103Mary, Queen, going-away dress of,32Mary Queen of Scots,8,131,153,154,175Maypoles,25,50Mazarin, Duchess de,8,9Medici, Marie de,91Mercers’ Chapel,88Merchant’s House, seventeenth century,73Meredith, George,11Mews, Royal,42Milton,118,122“Mitre” Inn,112Mohun, Lord,36Monmouth, Duke of,37,129Monument,71More, Sir Thomas,2-4,7,15,38,79,80,129Museum houses,12Museum, how to see,173Museums:British,172-178;Geffrye,193-96;Guildhall,99;London,29-32;Royal College of Surgeons,122;Soane,123-26;South Kensington,118,185-89;United Services’,158-60;Wallace Collection,190-93Musical instruments,188,189Napoleonic souvenirs,124,160Nash,211Nevill’s Court,133-35Norfolk, Duke of,15North, Sir Edward,152,153Oldfield, Nance,168Old Watling Restaurant,90Orleans, Charles d’,80Panier Alley,116Parish registers,55Parks:Battersea,212,213;Brockwell,216;Green,207-9;Hyde:dogs’ cemetery,202;life,199,201,202;lodges,202,203;music and dancing,203;mysterious statues,199,200;past and present,197-99;Serpentine,200,201;Kensington Gardens,203,204;Kew Gardens,214,215;Postman’s,215;Regent’s,211,212;St. James’s,209,210Paving of London,104Pearson, Sir Arthur,212Pembroke, Countess of,7Pepys,8,39,44,74,75,76,77,100,104,107,122,128,129,170,198Persian MSS.,188Peter Pan Statue,204Peter the Great,45-7,72,124,127,128Petersham, Lord,35Philippa, Queen,85,86Pickering Place,30Plane tree, Wood Street,92Pope,28,109,208,213,216Port of London Authority’s tower,77Prince Henry’s Room,57,58Princes, the Little,80Prior, Matthew,168,169Punch,42Pye Corner,138Queen’s Cottage, Kew,214,215Raleigh, Sir Walter,58,59,79,80,132,170Ranelagh Club,21,109Ranelagh Gardens,21,22Raphael cartoons,184,187Record Office treasures,130-33Refreshments, park,198,199Reynolds, Sir Joshua,22,36,183,184,190Richard II.,132,167Roman baths,57,66,69,70,72Roman London,68-70,72,77Romney,190Roper, William,2,7Roses, York and Lancaster,64,65Rossetti, the brothers,11Rotten Row,201Rousseau,45,124Royalty and parks,200Rubens, paintings by,160,193Russell, Lord, of Killowen,34Russians in Bow Church,87St. Bartholomew’s Hospital,137St. Dunstan’s Lodge,212St. James’s Palace,30St. John’s Gate,147,148Savoy Chapel Royal and Manor,55,56Sayes Court, Deptford,46Sculpture in British Museum,175-7Seething Lane,74,76,77Serpentine bathers,201Shakespearean London,53,64,65,70,71,110,113,167Shrewsbury, Lady,34Sidney, Sir Philip,132Sloane, Sir Hans,4,18,173,208Smith, Captain John,115Smithfield,137,141Snuff-takers,33,34Soane Museum, peculiarities of,123-26Soane, Sir John,123-25Soho, a king’s grave in,35,37Spenser,64Stanley, Dean,165Staple Inn, Holborn,105,106Steele, Sir Richard,44,156Stone effigies,115,116,137,138Strand,40,42,47,49Strand Lane,57,69Street names, lore of,85,93Sutherland, Duke of,31Sutton, Sir Thomas,155,156Swan, device and sign,91,92Swift,14Symons, Arthur,67Tattersall’s,26,27Temple:Church,63,64;entrances,60,63;Fountain Court,67;Hall,65;memories,60,63,64-67Tennant Collection,192Tennyson, Lord,122Thackeray,63,156,191,212Thornhill, Sir James,196Thynne, Thomas,121Thynne, William,73,74Tonson, Jacob, publisher,109,110Took’s Court,106Tower of London,79,80,83Trade unions, past and present,94,95Trafalgar Square,42Trinity House,76-78Turner,11,124,213Turner, Sir William,88,89Tyburn,104,114,152Tyler, Wat,147Wallace, Sir Richard,191Walpole, Horace,10,21,22,36,109,196,200,210War relics of the services,160Wardrobe Court,134Water Gates:Buckingham Street,43,48;Essex House,47Watling Street,68,90Watteau,125Watts’s “Lawgivers” fresco,129;“Physical Energy” statue,200Webb,169Wellington Arch,208,209Wesley and Whitefield,135Westbourne Stream,24,25,200Westminster Abbey:Chapel of the Pyx,165,166;Chapter House,162,165;funeral effigies,166;Jericho Room,167;Jerusalem Chamber,167,168;Little Cloister,166,167Westminster, Dukes of,55Westminster School,168,169Whistler,11,12Whitehall Palace, remains of,160Whittington,84,96,101William III.,46,89,121,188Williamson’s Hotel,89,90Window, east, of St. Margaret’s,170,171Wolsey, Cardinal,132Wonders, World’s, in British Museum,176Wood Street,32,92,93Woodwork, old,72Wren, Sir Christopher,33,53,54,60,71,86,88,100,114,124,141,160,169,204York House and its tenants,44Young, Launcelot,92,93Zoffany, Johann,215Zoological Gardens,211


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