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A Book for a Rainy Day; or, Recollections of the Events of the Years 1766-1833

Chapter 65: GENERAL INDEX
By John Thomas Smith
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The author collects personal reminiscences and biographical sketches spanning decades, offering vivid anecdotes about urban life, artists, actors, public figures, and social customs. Arranged chronologically as yearly entries, the work blends memoir, portraiture, and commentary, accompanied by contemporary illustrations and editorial notes that clarify references and identify prints. Topics range from studios, exhibitions, and theatrical culture to everyday scenes, trades, and curiosities, with reflective asides on collecting, prints, and antiquarian research. The tone alternates between anecdotal intimacy and antiquarian detail, preserving observant descriptions of manners, artistic practices, and the social landscape as remembered by a long-lived observer.

GENERAL INDEX

  • Academy, Royal, its origin and foundation members, 12.
  • Ackworth School, 185.
  • Adelphi Terrace, No. 5, 80, 239-240.
  • “Ad Libitum” Society, 213.
  • Admirals’ portraits at Greenwich, 282.
  • Aeronaut, an early English, 129.
  • Amphitheatre, Broughton’s, 33.
  • Anodyne necklaces, 8.
  • Auctioneers, famous London, 108-110.
  • Balloon ascent from Vauxhall, 260.
  • Baltimore House, 75.
  • Bankside, a house on, 78.
  • Banqueting House, restoration of Rubens’s ceiling, 319-320.
  • Barber-Surgeons’ Hall, 301.
  • Battersea market gardeners, 293.
  • Beaufort Buildings, festive nights in, 120.
  • Bedroom, Dr. John Gardner’s last best, 89.
  • Beech-tree at Windsor demolished, 131.
  • Beech-tree, drawn by J. T. Smith, 129.
  • Beefsteaks, Sublime Society of, 213-214.
  • Beggars, famous London, 87, 88, 89, 223.
  • Belgrave House, 259.
  • Bells, Thames-side church, 298-299.
  • Bermondsey Spa, 150-152.
  • Bird-fanciers, their London quarters, 69.
  • Bistre from a burnt tree, 131.
  • Black Boy Alley, 180.
  • Bloomsbury Square, Lady Ellenborough in, 100.
  • Blotting, the art of, 132.
  • Blue Boy, Gainsborough’s, 317.
  • Bolsover Street, painters in, 75.
  • Bookseller, a Strand, 109.
  • Bow, cane-heads made at, 134.
  • Brentford, election at, 15.
  • Bridewell, picture by Holbein in, 302.
  • Brown tree, Sir George Beaumont’s craze for a, 131.
  • Buckingham Street, Etty’s rooms in, 305.
  • —— Stanfield, R.A., in, 306.
  • “Budget,” John Bannister’s, 206-207.
  • Bun House at Chelsea, 147.
  • Busby wig, 251.
  • Cake, the Baddeley, 64.
  • Capper’s Farm, Great Russell Street, 30.
  • Caterpillars, plague of, 272.
  • Centenarians, 25.
  • “Chapeau de Paille” of Rubens, 243-245.
  • Chapter Coffee House, 184.
  • Charles II. eats a pickled egg, 70.
  • Cheesecakes, etc., at Marylebone Gardens, 57.
  • Chelsea Hospital, 295.
  • Chelsea porcelain, 284.
  • Cherokee Kings at Marylebone, 57.
  • “Chloe,” Prior’s, 60.
  • Chunee, the elephant, 107.
  • Circus, Astley’s, 270-271.
  • “Cit’s Country Box,” 17.
  • City of London v. Copper Holmes, 269.
  • Clapham, old, 275.
  • Coals, price of, 300.
  • “Cocker, according to,” 113.
  • Cock-fighting yesterday and to-day, 70.
  • Cockney Ladle, 48, 49.
  • Cockpits in London, 69-70.
  • Coffee used to stain prints, 256.
  • Collectors described, 110-122.
  • Colvill Court, 32.
  • Combing of wigs, 255.
  • Conjurer, Breslaw the, 68.
  • Connoisseurs at the “Feathers,” etc., 104-106.
  • Cooper’s Hill, 99.
  • Covent Garden, its hackney chairs, 3.
  • —— artists residing there, 5.
  • —— painting of, by Inigo Jones, 209.
  • Crab-tree Fields, 33.
  • Cradles, 9.
  • Cricket in White Conduit Fields, 192-193.
  • Cross Readings, Caleb Whitefoord’s, 113.
  • “Cumberland Cock” hat, 236.
  • Cup carved from Shakespeare’s mulberry, 250.
  • Cuyp, adventure of a, 114.
  • Dards’ Exhibition, 232.
  • Denmark Street, St. Giles’s, 27.
  • Devonshire Mews, 43.
  • Dew, Londoners bathing their faces in, 38.
  • Dickens anticipated, 84.
  • Dog, Alcibiades’, 233.
  • Dog, a London beggar’s, 88, 89.
  • Dog-doctor, famous London, 90.
  • Doggett’s Coat and Badge, 225-227.
  • Dogs, teeth of dead, 91.
  • Door-knockers in Fetter Lane, 124-125.
  • Draughts player, a famous, 31.
  • Drownings in Portman Square, 49.
  • Drury Lane Theatre, mismanagement of, 36.
  • Dublin, Mrs. Pope and her husband at, 164-166.
  • Du Val’s Lane, 193.
  • Dyot Street, 87.
  • Edmonton, exclusiveness of, 134.
  • —— rambles near, 134.
  • —— George Morland at, 157.
  • Elephant at Exeter Change, 107.
  • Elms near Fitzroy Square, 47.
  • Elocution, Dr. Trusler’s short cut to, 55.
  • Engraving, Smith’s views on, 307.
  • Epitaph on Sturges, a draughts-player, 31.
  • Epitaph, a remarkable Shoreditch, 89.
  • Epping butter, 56, 181.
  • Etchings by Baillie, 115.
  • Eternity, Fuseli’s image of, 205.
  • Execution of Governor Wall, 179-180.
  • Exeter Change elephant, 106-108.
  • Eye, power of the human, 146-147.
  • Fall of lace, worn by ladies, 75.
  • Fans, carried out of doors, 75.
  • Fantoccino, 67.
  • Farthing Pie House, 24, 47.
  • Feathers Tavern in Leicester Fields, 104.
  • Feathers Tavern at Waterloo Bridge, 53.
  • Fetter Lane, Dolphin door knocker in, 125.
  • Field of the Forty Footsteps, 36, 37.
  • Finch’s Grotto, 7.
  • Fitzroy Square, 47.
  • Forgery by W. Wynn Ryland, 198.
  • “French Gardens,” 50.
  • Funeral, Garrick’s extravagant, 81.
  • —— Henderson’s skit on, 81.
  • Funny, a Thames pleasure boat, 293.
  • Garlands, carried by milkmaids, 20.
  • Garrat elections, 127.
  • Garrick’s villa at Hampton, 283-290.
  • George IV., his rocker cradle, 9.
  • Gerrard Street, Edmund Burke in, 128.
  • Go-carts, 8.
  • Goloshes, 75, 79.
  • Goodge Street, 32.
  • Goose, at Greenwich, 6.
  • Gooseberry Fair, 35.
  • Grangerised “Pennant,” 86.
  • Great Queen Street, No. 55-56, 117.
  • Green Man Tavern, 47.
  • Greenwich Hospital, pictures at, 290-291.
  • Gresse’s Gardens, 32.
  • Grosvenor Square, Dr. Johnson shakes a thief in, 78.
  • Grotto Garden, 82.
  • Guilford Street, gap in, 76.
  • Halfpenny Hatch, 270.
  • Hanway Street, 31.
  • Harley Fields, 24.
  • Hartshorn Lane, 299.
  • Hat called “Egham, Staines, and Windsor,” 236.
  • —— “Cumberland Cock,” 236.
  • Hermes Hill, 241.
  • Highgate, view of, from Bloomsbury, 76.
  • High Street, a typical, 39.
  • Honey Lane Market, 188.
  • Hooligan, an eighteenth-century, 29.
  • Horse, Stubbs, R.A., carries a dead, 95.
  • Horses at Garrick’s funeral, 81.
  • Hot Cross Buns, 148-149.
  • Hungerford Stairs, 297.
  • Ireland, the Union with, 169.
  • Islington, rural delights of, 17.
  • —— seen from Bloomsbury, 76.
  • Jack-in-the-green, 20.
  • “Jenny’s Whim,” 259.
  • Jew’s Harp House, 22-23.
  • “Jolly Undertakers, The,” 213.
  • Kendall’s Farm at Regent’s Park, 24.
  • Kentish Town, dairy near, 26.
  • —— Charles Mathews at, 85.
  • Kitten in a parachute, 259-260.
  • Ladies’ Pocket Book, 79.
  • Langham Hotel, 49.
  • “Last Supper,” Benjamin West’s, 91.
  • Leverian Museum, 191.
  • Leyton, Rockhoult House at, 52.
  • “Little Sea,” the, 32.
  • London, its rural openness in 1777, 75.
  • Londoners’ superstitions, 37, 38.
  • Long’s Bowling Green, 51.
  • Lottery to dispose of Leverian Museum, 191.
  • Marionettes, 68.
  • Marylebone, Academy at, 41-46.
  • Marylebone Basin, Quaker youth drowned in, 50.
  • Marylebone Gardens, 51-68.
  • Marylebone Park, 41.
  • Marylebone, Old, 39-50.
  • Masks over doors, 28.
  • May Day, customs on, 19.
  • Mayors of Garrat, 127.
  • Medals commemorating murder of Sir E. B. Godfrey, 299.
  • Middlesex Hospital, 32.
  • Millbank, old, 258-259.
  • “Milkmaid, A Merry,” 21.
  • “Moses, The Finding of,” fashionable version, 85.
  • Mother Red-cap Tavern, 25, 26.
  • Nelson, his remains brought to Whitehall, 182.
  • Newgate, Smith’s visit to, 178-183.
  • —— auction at, 183-184.
  • Newman Street, view from, 46.
  • New Wells, the, 52.
  • Norris monument in Westminster Abbey, 274.
  • Norton Street, 75.
  • Nuremberg, Dürer festival at, 261-265.
  • Onions, peeled by Queen Charlotte, 236.
  • Otter’s Pool, 157.
  • Oxford Street, old tablet, 31.
  • Paddington, a villa at, 312-313.
  • Pain’s Hill at Cobham, 289.
  • “Papyrius Cursor,” 113.
  • Parachute descent, a famous, 259-260.
  • Pariton, a musical instrument, 53.
  • Parliament Stairs, 173.
  • Pax by Tomaso Finiguerra, 309-312.
  • Percy Chapel, Charlotte Street, 96.
  • Phlebotomist, a busy, 137.
  • Pickled Egg Walk, 70.
  • Pie Corner, 181.
  • Pimlico, formation of, 260.
  • Pipes, New River water, 36.
  • Poets’ Corner, 240-242.
  • Ponds in old Marylebone, 49.
  • Porridge Island, 322.
  • Portland Place, 48, 49.
  • Portland Vase, the, 130.
  • Portman Square, chairmen drowned at, 49.
  • Portraits, collected by Charles Mathews, 85.
  • Portraiture made easy, 119.
  • Post Angel, a curious journal, 314.
  • Printsellers, portrayed by Rowlandson, 122.
  • Prize fight, a famous, 33.
  • Puddings, worn by children, 11.
  • —— praised by Nollekens, 12.
  • Pump in Ironmonger Lane, 235.
  • Queen Anne Street, 48.
  • “Queen’s Head and Artichoke,” 22.
  • Rathbone Place, gatherings at, 96.
  • Rats’ Castle, 87.
  • Rattlesnakes at Islington, 52.
  • Regent’s Park, farms near, 24.
  • Rembrandt’s Three Trees “improved,” 115.
  • “Resurrection Gate,” 27.
  • Rockhoult House, 52.
  • Rose Tavern at Marylebone, 51, 58.
  • Royal Academy, 12, 13, 68.
  • —— two women admitted, 198.
  • Runnymede, 99, 101.
  • St. Bartholomew’s Fair, Belzoni at, 186-187.
  • St. Clare, Convent of, 162.
  • St. George’s Chapel, George III. in, 102.
  • St. George’s Fields, riot in, 13.
  • St. Giles in the Fields, 28, 29, 197.
  • St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, watermen’s burial ground at, 269.
  • St. Paul’s, protection of, from lightning, 173.
  • St. Sepulchre’s Church, old custom at, 38, 39.
  • St. Stephen’s Chapel, discoveries in, 171-173.
  • Salt-box, what was it? 48.
  • Scrub, Mrs. Abington as, 318.
  • Sculptors enumerated by Smith, 308.
  • Sermon by Rowland Hill, 159-160.
  • Sermon-monger, Dr. Trusler as a, 55.
  • Serva Padrona, La, 61.
  • Sessions House, Clerkenwell, 47.
  • Shakespeare Gallery, Boydell’s, 235.
  • Shakespeare, Dr. Kenrick’s lectures on, 63.
  • —— Miss Benger’s lines on, 249.
  • —— his mulberry tree, 250.
  • Showman, Flockton the, 186.
  • Simon, a London beggar, 87.
  • Slack, his fight with Broughton, 33, 34.
  • Society of Arts, wall paintings at, 171.
  • Soho, watch-house in, 126.
  • Soho Square, Sir Joseph Banks in, 229.
  • Songs and glees, 155.
  • Spinning-wheel Alley, 9.
  • Statues, notable London, 308.
  • Strand Lane Stairs, scene at, 272-273.
  • Stratford Jubilee, 250.
  • Surrey Chapel, 158.
  • Swan signs on the Thames, 297.
  • Swan-upping, 208.
  • Tea-leaves, fortune-telling by, 77.
  • Tea-pot, Dr. Johnson’s, 194.
  • Teething of children, 8.
  • Temple Bar, elephant passes through, 107.
  • Tessellated floors, 149.
  • Thames, Sandby’s views of, 304.
  • Thrale’s Brewery, 78.
  • Toplady, buried, 33.
  • Topographical collections, 99.
  • Tottenham Court Road district, 26 et seq.
  • Trusler (Miss), her fruit-tarts and cheesecakes, 56.
  • Ugolino, Sir Joshua Reynolds’s, 281.
  • Vauxhall Gardens, pictures at, 20.
  • Venus waited on by footmen, 233.
  • Viol-di-gamba, Gainsborough and the, 61.
  • Virginia Water, formation of, 102-104.
  • Walnut Tree Field, 33.
  • Waterman, The, 227-228.
  • Waterman’s Hall, portrait in, 226.
  • Watermen, Thames, 268-270.
  • Watermen’s Burial Ground, 269.
  • Westminster Abbey, prize-fighter’s monument in, 34.
  • —— admission to, 241.
  • Whips carried by ladies, 79.
  • Whitefield’s Tabernacle, 32, 33.
  • Whitehall Chapel, repairs of, 273.
  • Wigs in England, 251-257.
  • Willan’s Farm at Regent’s Park, 23.
  • Wimbledon, Horne Tooke at, 209-211.
  • Windmill Street, 32.
  • Women as Royal Academicians, 198.

INDEX OF PERSONS

  • Abington (Mrs.), 214-212, 308.
  • Adams (George), 151.
  • Adams ( John), 139.
  • Amherst (Lady), 240.
  • Angelo (Michael), 27-28.
  • Armstrong (Dr. George), 21.
  • Armstrong (Dr. John), 15.
  • Arnald, A.R.A., 175, 277.
  • Arne (Dr.), 181.
  • Arnold (Dr. S.), 62.
  • Arnold (S. J.), 213.
  • Astley, 270-271.
  • Atkinson, 312.
  • Bacon, R.A., 13, 33, 308.
  • Baddeley, 64.
  • Baillie (Captain), 114.
  • Baily, R.A., 309.
  • Baker, R.A., 12.
  • Baker, 115.
  • Banks (Sir Joseph), 229.
  • Banks (Mrs.), 229-231.
  • Bannister (Charles), 61.
  • Bannister (John), 206-207, 320.
  • Barbauld (Mrs.), 79.
  • Baretti, 47.
  • Barrett, R.A., 12.
  • Barrington (Hon. Daines), 89.
  • Barrow, 42.
  • Barry, R.A., 13, 170, 171.
  • Bartolozzi, R.A., 12, 82.
  • Basire, 111.
  • Bates (Dr.), 202.
  • Battishill, 154, 155.
  • Bean (Rev.), 27.
  • Beaumont (Sir G.), 94, 131.
  • Beauvais, 119.
  • Bell (Dr.), 38.
  • Beltz, 237.
  • Belzoni, 187-190.
  • Benger, 249-250.
  • Bentley, 174.
  • Beresford, 78.
  • Bingham, 26.
  • Blake (William), 97, 199.
  • Blaquière, 220.
  • Blewitt, 153.
  • Bonnington, 273.
  • Boswell, 147.
  • Boydell, 235.
  • Brand, 172.
  • Breslaw, 68.
  • Bretherton, 16, 17.
  • Broughton, 33, 34, 226.
  • Brown (“Capability”), 288.
  • Buchan (Dr.), 184-185.
  • Bull, 99.
  • Bunbury, 17.
  • Burchell, 8.
  • Burges (Dr.), 235.
  • Burgoyne (General), 96, 216.
  • Burke (Edmund), 128, 144.
  • Burlington (Lord), 287.
  • Burney (Miss), 22.
  • Burton, 22.
  • Busby (Dr.), 251.
  • Bush, 196.
  • Buttall, 318.
  • Byron (Lord), 18, 108.
  • Caillot, 63, 68.
  • Calonne, 276.
  • Camelford (Lord), 201.
  • Campe, 262.
  • Canning (Elizabeth), 135.
  • Capper, 30.
  • Caracci, 195.
  • Carey, 65.
  • Carlile, 50.
  • Carlini, 13.
  • Carr, 283.
  • Carr, 240.
  • Carter (Elizabeth), 3, 79, 231.
  • Carter (John), 173.
  • Cartwright (Major), 247-248.
  • Catley, 6, 58.
  • Catton, R.A., 12.
  • Caulfield, 154.
  • Chamberlaine, 303.
  • Chamberlen, 8.
  • Chamberlin, R.A., 12.
  • Chambers, R.A., 12, 75.
  • Chambers (Sir Robert), 318.
  • Chantrey, R.A., 283, 308.
  • Charlemont (Earl of), 168-170.
  • Charles II., 70.
  • Cheesman, 169.
  • Chetwood, 3.
  • Cholmondeley (Mrs.), 146.
  • Christie, 250-251.
  • Chun, 25.
  • Churchill, 316-317.
  • Cibber, 255.
  • Cipriani, R.A., 12, 129, 319.
  • Clarence (Duke of), 222.
  • Clark, 101.
  • Clarke (Dr. Adam), 44.
  • Cocker, 113.
  • Coffey, 2.
  • Cole, 111.
  • Collins, 258.
  • Constable, R.A., 47, 160-162.
  • Cooke, 271.
  • Coram, 12.
  • Cornelius, 262.
  • Cosway, R.A., 13, 217.
  • Cosway (Maria), 180.
  • Cotes, R.A., 12, 164.
  • Cowper (Charles), 224.
  • Cowper (William), 18, 55.
  • Coxe (“Social Day”), 182.
  • Cozens, 132.
  • Cranch, 162.
  • Cremorne (Lord), 253.
  • Crowle, 43, 86, 304.
  • Cumberland (Duke of), 34.
  • Curtis, 271.
  • Dahl, 292.
  • Dalton, 303.
  • Dance (James), 1.
  • Dance, R.A. (George), 1, 204.
  • Dance, R.A. (Nathaniel), 12, 237.
  • Daniell, R.A., 204.
  • Darby, 83.
  • Dards, 232.
  • David, 180.
  • Davies (Tom), 110, 285.
  • Dawson (Nancy), 10.
  • Dekker, 259.
  • De la Place, 41, 42.
  • Delaval, 173-175.
  • Delpini, 123.
  • De Wint, 97.
  • Dibdin, 70, 104, 292.
  • Dinsdale, 126.
  • Doggett, 225-227.
  • Dollond, 152.
  • Dorset (Duke of), 192.
  • Douglas, 100.
  • Drury (Dr.), 101.
  • Ducarel, 24.
  • Ducrow, 271.
  • Dunstan, 127-128.
  • Dunton, 314.
  • Duvall, 253.
  • Dürer, Albrecht, 261-265.
  • Du Val, 193.
  • Dyer, 42.
  • Dyot, 87.
  • Easton, 25.
  • Edmunds, 106.
  • Edridge, A.R.A., 106.
  • Edwards, A.R.A., 115.
  • Edy, 87.
  • Elizabeth (Queen), 22.
  • Ellenborough (Lord), 100.
  • Esdaile, 273-274, 277.
  • Etty, R.A., 305.
  • Everdingen, 259.
  • Faber, 5.
  • Falkner, 53.
  • Farnborough (Lord), 304.
  • Fielding (Sir John), 56.
  • Finch’s Grotto, 7.
  • Finiguerra, 309.
  • Fischer, 35.
  • Fitzroy, 33.
  • Flaxman, R.A., 96, 98, 128, 172, 308.
  • Fleetwood, 36.
  • Flockton, 68, 186.
  • Foote, 1, 108, 135.
  • Forde (Dr.), 177.
  • Fountayne, 40, 42, 43.
  • Fountayne (Mrs.), 44, 45, 59.
  • Fourment, 11.
  • Francklin, 242-243.
  • Frost, 161.
  • Fuseli, R.A., 14, 204-205.
  • Gainsborough, R.A., 12, 160, 258, 317.
  • Gardner, 89.
  • Garnerin, 259-260.
  • Garrard, R.A., 289.
  • Garrick—
  • Seen by Smith, 87.
  • Farewell of the stage, 70-74, 228.
  • Death and burial, 80-81.
  • His eyes, 146.
  • And Mrs. Pope, 163.
  • And Mrs. Abington, 215-216.
  • Presented with a cup, 250-251.
  • His wigs, 257.
  • His villa, 284-290.
  • Garrick (Mrs.), 236-243, 285-288.
  • Gay, 6.
  • George III., 5, 101-102, 130, 247, 253.
  • George IV., 9, 35, 245, 282.
  • Giardini, 61.
  • Gilliland, 225.
  • Godfrey (Sir E. Berry), 254, 299.
  • Goldsmith (Dr.), 17, 57, 257.
  • Goodge, 32.
  • Gossett (Dr.), 112.
  • Gough, 109-110, 140.
  • Goyen, 259.
  • Granby (Marquis of), 295.
  • Green, 166.
  • Gresse, 32.
  • Greville, 129.
  • Griffith, 80.
  • Grose (Captain), 105.
  • Gubbins, 162.
  • Gwynn, R.A., 12.
  • Hamilton (Sir W.), 127.
  • Hamilton (Lady), 129, 182.
  • Hand, 147.
  • Handel, 43.
  • Hargrave, 42.
  • Harley, 86, 320-321.
  • Harrington (Lady), 44.
  • Harris, 213.
  • Hart (Emma), 129.
  • Hartry, 137.
  • Hawkins (Sir John), 194.
  • Hayman, 13, 20, 317.
  • Hearne, 105.
  • Heath, 270, 298.
  • Heberfield, 258.
  • Henderson (John), 81, 121.
  • Henderson (William), 85.
  • Henry VIII., 301.
  • Hewson, 296.
  • Heywood, 122.
  • Hill (Rowland), 101.
  • Hill (Rev. Rowland), 158-159.
  • Hillier, 194, 256.
  • Hinchliffe (Dr.), 82.
  • Hoare, R.A., 13.
  • Hoare (Sir R. C.), 93.
  • Hogarth—
  • In Covent Garden, 5.
  • And Vauxhall Gardens, 20.
  • March to Finchley, 30, 33.
  • His engraver, Sullivan, 34.
  • Rake’s Progress, 40.
  • The “Five Orders of Perriwigs,” 104.
  • Vogue of his prints, 121.
  • Caricature of Churchill, 317.
  • Hogarth (Mrs.), 56.
  • Holbein, 301-302.
  • Holmes (“Copper”), 150, 268-269.
  • Hone, R.A., 12, 97, 134.
  • Hone (W.), 9, 20.
  • Hopkins, 116.
  • Hopkins (“Vulture”), 253.
  • Horne (Rev. H.), 314.
  • Horneck, 17.
  • Howard, R.A., 12.
  • Howard of Effingham, 282.
  • Huddesford, 93, 103, 183.
  • Hudson (Tom of Ten Thousand), 5.
  • Hudson (Thomas), 280-281.
  • Hughes, 70.
  • Humphry, R.A., 97, 109.
  • Hunter (Dr. William), 2.
  • Huntington (Rev. W.), 211-212.
  • Hutchins, 108.
  • Hutchinson (“Strap”?), 297.
  • Incledon, 292-293.
  • Ireland (Dean), 241.
  • Ireland (Samuel), 139.
  • Jackson, 82.
  • James I., 76.
  • James, 99.
  • James (Sir W. J.), 222.
  • Janssen, 142.
  • Jeffreys (Judge), 140.
  • Jennings (or Noel), 233-235.
  • Johnson (Dr. Samuel)—
  • His mention of John Rann, 38.
  • Joke about Cuper’s Gardens, 53.
  • Visits to Marylebone Gardens, 63.
  • Described by Smith, 77.
  • Seizes a thief, 78.
  • Discusses Garrick’s funeral, 81.
  • His original for Pekuah, 90.
  • Befriends Paterson, 109.
  • Discusses the human eye, 146-147.
  • His death, 194.
  • With Garrick at Hampton, 289.
  • Jones (Inigo), 209.
  • Jonson, 299.
  • Jordan (Mrs.), 221-223.
  • Joslin, 41.
  • Junius, 93.
  • Kauffman, R.A., 12, 79, 197, 200.
  • Kean, 65.
  • Keate, 90.
  • Keithe, 25.
  • Kendall, 24.
  • Kenrick, 63.
  • Kett, 94.
  • Keyse, 150, 152.
  • King, 136.
  • Kip, 2, 3.
  • Kneller, 5, 21, 291.
  • Knight, 245-246.
  • Königsmark, 5.
  • Lake (Sir J. W.), 107, 134.
  • Lamb (Charles), 160, 223, 241.
  • Lambert, 213.
  • Langford, 108.
  • Lauron, 21.
  • Lawrence, R.A., 98, 280.
  • Legat, 283.
  • Leicester (Sir F.), 99.
  • Lely (Sir Peter), 5, 255, 280.
  • Lemon, 142-143.
  • Lennox, 193.
  • Lenox (Lady Sarah), 163.
  • Lenox (Charlotte), 79.
  • L’Estrange, 149.
  • Lever (Sir Ashton), 100, 191.
  • Lewis (“Strap”?), 296.
  • Lloyd, 17.
  • Lloyd (Bishop), 300.
  • Locatelli, 46.
  • Lochee, 85.
  • Lock, 195.
  • Lodge, 303.
  • Lort (Dr.), 99, 111.
  • Love (James), 1.
  • Love (artist), 27.
  • Lowe, 1, 7, 48, 59.
  • MacArdell, 11.
  • Macaulay (Catherine), 80.
  • Macauley, 240.
  • MacNally, 223.
  • Manners-Sutton (Archbishop), 225.
  • Marion, 67.
  • Marlborough (Duke of), 2.
  • Martin, 37.
  • Mary Queen of Scots, 76.
  • Mathew (Rev. H.), 96.
  • Mathew (Mrs.), 128.
  • Mathews (Charles), 85.
  • Maton (Dr.), 240.
  • Maynard (Viscount), 92.
  • Mayo (Dr.), 141.
  • Meckenen, 9.
  • Mendip (Lord), 195.
  • Metz, 303.
  • Meyer, R.A., 12.
  • Meyrick (Dr.), 105, 254.
  • Millan, 109.
  • Mitchell, 119.
  • Mogg, 6.
  • Money (Major), 128.
  • Monk, 34.
  • Monro (Dr.), 105.
  • Montagu (Mrs.), 79.
  • Montagu (Lady M. W.), 51.
  • Montgomery (“Satan”), 96.
  • More (Hannah), 80.
  • More (Sir T.), 301.
  • Morland, 156.
  • Moser, R.A., 12, 28, 37, 109.
  • Moser, R.A. (Miss), 12, 197.
  • “Mother Damnable,” 26.
  • Muet, 149.
  • Musgrave (Sir W.), 10, 40.
  • Musgrave, 116.
  • Myddelton (Sir Hugh), 142.
  • Nelson (Admiral Lord), 182.
  • Newton, R.A., 12.
  • Niven (“Strap”?), 297.
  • Nixon, 212.
  • Noel (or Jennings), 194.
  • Nollekens, R.A., 12, 38.
  • Nollekens (Mrs.), 22, 39, 89, 113.
  • Onslow (Speaker), 22.
  • Oram, 98, 104.
  • Orford (Lord), 35.
  • Ottley, 309.
  • Packer, 121.
  • Palmer, 123.
  • Parkyns, 42.
  • Parsons (Sir L.), 169.
  • Parsons (Nancy), 92.
  • Parton, 196.
  • Paterson, 108, 110.
  • Peel (Sir R.), 245.
  • Penny, R.A., 13.
  • Pepys, 228, 302.
  • Pergolesi, 61.
  • Peters, 160.
  • Petitot, 35.
  • Phillips (Lieut.-Col.), 145.
  • Piozzi, 322.
  • Pliny, 3.
  • Pope (actor), 163-164.
  • Pope (Alexander), 253.
  • Pope (Mrs.), 163.
  • Pope (Miss), 95.
  • Porter, 268.
  • Porter (Miss), 48.
  • Prickett (Mrs. J. T. Smith), 133.
  • Prior, 60.
  • Pyne, 19, 24.
  • Rackett, 241-242.
  • Ramsay, 313.
  • Rann, 38.
  • Ratcliffe (Dr.), 5.
  • Rawle, 117.
  • Rebecca, R.A., 13, 68.
  • Reinagle, 129.
  • Rembrandt, 9, 115, 278.
  • Reynolds (Sir Joshua), 12, 14, 97, 144, 146, 152, 219, 281.
  • Rice, 25.
  • Rich, 213.
  • Richards, R.A., 13, 279.
  • Richardson (Dr.), 190, 279.
  • Richardson (Jonathan), 18, 19.
  • Rigaud, R.A., 319.
  • Robins, 5.
  • Robinson (“Perdita”), 83.
  • Robinson (Sir T.), 52.
  • Roma, 76.
  • Rooker, 13, 42.
  • Rossi, R.A., 308.
  • Roubiliac, 274, 308.
  • Roupell, 272.
  • Rowlandson, 87.
  • Roxburgh (Duke of), 99, 176.
  • Rubens, 11, 12, 195, 244, 319.
  • Rumming, 137.
  • Ruysdael, 259.
  • Ryland, 198.
  • Salt (Henry), 132.
  • Salt (Samuel), 101.
  • Sandby, R.A. (Paul), 12, 131, 303.
  • Sandby, R.A. (Thomas), 12, 92, 102-103, 303.
  • Sandwich (Lord), 96, 104.
  • Schneider, 264.
  • Schültze, 261.
  • Score, 281.
  • Scott (Samuel), 104.
  • Seago, 87.
  • Seguier, 122, 319.
  • Serres, R.A., 13.
  • Shakespeare, 9.
  • Sheridan, R.B., 123, 146, 158.
  • Sheridan (Mrs.), 79.
  • Sherwin, 83, 84.
  • Shovel (Sir Cloudesley), 253.
  • Shuter, 35.
  • Siddons, 74, 84.
  • Slack, 33, 34.
  • Smart, 161.
  • Smedley, 250, 273-274.
  • Smith (Admiral), 4, 278-279.
  • Smith (Charles), 27.
  • Smith (Nathaniel), 4.
  • Smith (John Thomas)—
  • Birth, 2.
  • His stick “Bannister,” 78.
  • Runs to Garrick’s funeral, 80.
  • Kissed by “Perdita,” 83.
  • His will, 86.
  • Sits for head of St. John, 91.
  • Meets George III., 101-102.
  • Visits Chunee the elephant, 107.
  • Thinks of being an actor, 123.
  • Marries, 132.
  • Illustrates Pennant, 133.
  • Lives at Edmonton, 133.
  • Applies for mastership, 166-168.
  • Publishes Antiquities of Westminster, 202.
  • Keeper of the Prints, 224.
  • Publishes Vagabondiana, 223.
  • Smollett, 296.
  • Solly (Mrs.), 242, 290.
  • Southey, 37.
  • Sprimont, 284.
  • Squires, 135.
  • Standly, 278.
  • Stanfield, R.A., 306.
  • Staunton, 3.
  • Steevens, 63.
  • Stepney (Sir T.), 234.
  • Stewart, 309-312.
  • Storace, 58.
  • Storer, 99.
  • Strange (Sir R.), 82, 142.
  • Stuart (“Athenian”), 104.
  • Stubbs, R.A., 95.
  • Sturges, 31.
  • Suett, 118.
  • Sullivan, 34, 105.
  • Tanner, 8.
  • Tarleton (Sir B.), 193.
  • Tarr, 2.
  • Tatham, 267.
  • Taylor, 80, 316-319.
  • Thane, 219.
  • Thompson, 29.
  • Thrale, 78.
  • Thynne (Thomas), 5.
  • Thynne (Lord John), 241.
  • Toms, R.A., 12.
  • Tooke, 209-211.
  • Topham (Colonel), 153.
  • Toplady, 33.
  • Torré, 63.
  • Townley, 77, 195-196.
  • Townsend, 101.
  • Townshend, 253-254.
  • Towry, 100.
  • Trusler (Rev. J.), 45, 55.
  • Trusler (Miss), 56.
  • Tunnard, 78.
  • Turner, R.A., 151.
  • Turpin, 59.
  • Twigg, 3.
  • Tyers, 20, 316, 319.
  • Tyler, R.A., 12.
  • Vandyke, 142.
  • Veigel (Mrs. Garrick), 287.
  • Voltaire, 3.
  • Wale, R.A., 12.
  • Wall (Governor), 176-180.
  • Walks (Dr.), 255.
  • Walpole (Horace), 18, 36, 61, 111, 220-221.
  • Walpole (Sir R.), 94.
  • Warton, 94.
  • Watt, 314.
  • Weever, 89.
  • Welch, 39.
  • Wellington (Duke of), 252.
  • Wells (“Mother”), 135.
  • Wesley, 33.
  • West, 313.
  • West, P.R.A. (Benjamin), 12, 91, 129, 195.
  • Westmacott, R.A., 308.
  • Weston, 208.
  • White, 202.
  • Whitefield, 24, 32, 33.
  • Whitefield (Mrs.), 33.
  • Whitefoord, 113.
  • Wigston, 156, 157.
  • Wilkes, 13, 15-16, 75, 93.
  • Willan, 23.
  • Willes (Sir J. S.), 157.
  • William III., 281-282, 315.
  • William IV., 291.
  • Wilmot, 15, 16.
  • Wilson, R.A., 5, 12, 47, 75.
  • Wilton, R.A., 12, 318.
  • Wilton (Miss), 318.
  • Winchilsea (Earl of), 192.
  • Winston, 62.
  • Woffington, 21.
  • Wolcot (Dr.), 119-120.
  • Wolsey (Cardinal), 141.
  • Woodforde, 95.
  • Woodhouse, 116.
  • Woodhull, 117.
  • Woollett, 253, 307.
  • Worlidge, 117.
  • Wrighten, 153.
  • Wroth (Sir H.), 140.
  • Wyatt, 92.
  • Wyatt, R.A., 13, 172.
  • Wynn (Sir W. W.), 238.
  • Yates, 35.
  • Yates (Mrs.), 44.
  • Yeo, R.A., 12.
  • Zoffany, R.A., 13, 285.
  • Zuccarelli, R.A., 13.
  • Zucchero, 76, 282.
  • Zucchi, A.R.A., 13, 81, 200.