The Literary History of the Adelphi and Its Neighbourhood

Absalom and Achitophel, 227, 255.

Adam, the brothers, call themselves "Adelphi," 3;
obtain a lease of the Durham House property, 75-76;
they effect a marvellous transformation, 76-79;
opposed by the City, they obtain an Act of Parliament for embanking
the river, 79;
interesting letter on the subject, 79-84;
Granville Sharp's strictures, 84;
the brothers in financial difficulties, 85;
they obtain another Act of Parliament, 85;
the Adelphi Lottery, 86-90;
history of the brothers, 90-98;
Robert Adam, 90-97;
James Adam, 97-98;
John Adam, 98;
William Adam, 98.

Adam, the brothers, call themselves "Adelphi," 3.

Adam, James, 90, 92, 97.

Adam, John, 98.

Adam, Robert, 90-97.

Adam, William, 98.

Adam, William (father of the brothers), 91.

Addison, Joseph, 30.

Adelphi, origin of the name, 3;
the brothers Adam obtain the lease of the property, 75-76;
transformation of the property, 76-79;
fruitless opposition of the City, 79-84;
the Adelphi Lottery, 86-90;
Scots workmen succeeded by Irish, 98.

Adelphi Chapel, the, 211-212.

Adelphi Hotel (Osborn's), 180-181, 183-185.

Adelphi Arches, 187-191.

Aggas' Map of London, 8.

Aickin (actor), 148.

Akenside, Mark, 269.

Albans, Duchess of (Harriot Mellon), 200, 202-204, 213-214.

Albans, Duke of, 75-76, 202.

Albemarle, Duchess of ("Nan" Clarges), 63-71.

Albemarle, Duke of, 255.

Albert, Prince Consort, 118.

Aldborough, Lord, 103.

Alexandra, Queen, 212.

Armstrong, Dr, 210, 212.

Arts, Society of, in the Adelphi, 100-122;
description of the paintings in, 108-118.

Ashburton, Baron, 147.

Atheist, the, or the Soldier's Fortune, 29.

Aubrey, the antiquary, 17, 220.

Avenue Theatre, 272.


Bacon, Francis, 219-221.

Baddeley, Robert, 148.

Ballade upon a Wedding, 253-254.

Bannister, John, 174.

Baron-Wilson, Mrs, 208.

Barré, Isaac, 147.

Barrington, Lord, 181.

Barry, James, 101-118.

Bassompiere, François de, 223-224.

Bathurst, Lady, 159.

Batteville, Baron de, 229.

Beaconsfield, Earl of, 181.

Beauclerk, Lady Diana, 153, 155.

Beauclerk, Topham, 150-153, 158.

Becket, Andrew, 169-171.

Beggar's Opera, The, 247.

Bek, Anthony, Bishop of Durham, 3-4.

Bek, Anthony, the second, 3-4.

Bek, Walter, Bishop of Lincoln, 4.

Belty, G.F., 167.

Bensley, W., 148.

Blanchard, E.L., 216-217.

Blanchard, William, 216.

Boleyn, Anne, 11-12.

Boleyn, Thomas, Earl of Wiltshire, 11.

Boscawen, Mrs, 154-155.

Boswell, James, 103, 121, 152-160.

Boyle, Roger, 253.

Brackley, Viscount, 19.

Brandon, Charles, 219.

Brereton, Owen S., 111.

Brereton, William, 148.

Brett, Sir Robert, 251.

Brisden, John, 41.

Britain's Burse (the New Exchange, which see).

Broghill, Lord, 253.

Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, supplied with water from the Adelphi, 240.

Buccleuch, Duke of, 97.

Buckingham, Duke of, the first ("Steenie"), 222-226.

Buckingham, Duke of, the second (Dryden's "Zimri"), 226-229.

Buckingham Street, 241-247.

Burdett, Sir Francis, 201.

Burdett-Coutts, the Baroness, 201, 202, 214.

Burghley, Lord, 221.

Burke, Edmund, 147.

Burney, Dr, 154.

Bury, Richard de, author of Philobiblon, 9.

Bute, Lord, 212.


Cademan, Will, 29.

Caledonian Hotel, 214.

Camden, Lord, 147.

Campbell, John, 193-194.

Campbell, Lord Frederick, 97.

Campbell & Coutts, 197.

Carew, Sir George, 12.

Carmarthen, Lord, 243.

Carter, Mrs Elizabeth, 154, 156, 162.

Cavendish, Henry, 255.

Cawarden, Sir Thomas, 251.

Chamberlayne, 157.

Charles the First, 223-224.

Charles II., 38.

Chastillon, de, French Ambassador, 14.

Chinese wall-paper in the Strand, 210-211.

Christmas, Gerrard, 251.

Cibber, Mrs, 248.

Clarendon, Lord, 254-255.

Clarges, "Nan," Duchess of Albemarle, 63-71.

Clarke, John S., 272.

Clemens, Samuel L., 215.

Clinton, Lord, 12.

Clouston, R.S., 92-94.

Coal Meter's Office, 38.

Colman, George, the elder, 147, 174.

Commissioners of Accounts, office of, 36.

Conscious Lovers, The, 247.

Constable, John, 242.

Constitutional Club, 269.

Cosmo, the Grand Duke, 27.

Country Wife, The, 30.

Coutts, the house of, 192-214.

Coutts, James, 196-197.

Coutts, John, 195-196.

Coutts, Patrick, 195-196.

Coutts, Thomas, 196-213.

Coutts, William, 195.

Covent Garden Theatre, 57, 126, 137, 159, 270.

Coventry, Earl of, 97.

Coventry, Lord Keeper, 36.

Cows in the Adelphi, 189.

Crabbe, George, 181.

Cranmer, Thomas, 11-12.

Craven Street, 269-272.

Creed, John, 39.

Cricket, The, 187.

Crofts, Dean of Norwich, 39.

Cromwell, Oliver, 48, 228-229.

Cromwell, Lord, 12.

Cromwell, Richard, 12.

Cunningham, Peter, 76.


Daily Telegraph, The, 217.

Danes, St Clement, 162.

David Copperfield, scenes from, in the Adelphi, 184, 246-247.

Davies, Thomas, 41.

Delany, Mrs, 166.

Devonshire, Duke of, 147.

Dickens, Charles, frequents the Adelphi when a boy, 182-183;
scenes from David Copperfield, 184, 246-247;
from Pickwick, 184-185;
banks with Coutts & Co., 212.

Disraeli, Benjamin, 181.

D'Israeli, Isaac, 181, 224.

Dodd, James, 147.

Dowgate, 234.

Drury Lane Theatre, 124-126, 164, 247.

Drury Lane Fund, 124.

Dryden, John, 29, 30, 40, 227.

Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, 14-15.

Dudley, Lady Catherine, 15.

Dudley, Lord Guildford, 15.

Dudley, Sir John, 12.

Duffet, Thomas, 27.

Dundonald, Earl of, 200-201.

Durham House, its origin in the thirteenth century, 3-4;
Otho, the papal legate, the Oxford clergy and scholars make
"solemn submission" to him here, 4-5;
Henry III. shelters here, 6;
Prince (Henry V.) stays here, 6;
Richard de Bury, author of Philobiblon, lives here, 8;
Hatfield, Thomas, Bishop of Durham, 7, 9;
Henry VIII. appropriates the house, 10;
grants it to Thomas Boleyn, 11;
Anne Boleyn and Princess Elizabeth, 11;
Cranmer resides here, 11;
great festivities attended by Henry VIII. and Anne Boleyn, the Court,
the Mayor of London, etc., 12-13;
Chastillon, the French Ambassador to Edward VI., lodges here, 14;
Edward VI. grants the house to the Princess Elizabeth, 14;
a mint here, 14;
Lady Jane Grey married here, 15;
Queen Elizabeth acquires the house, 14;
grants it to Walter Raleigh, 15;
Raleigh's residence here, 16-20;
Philip Sidney, 16;
Raleigh dispossessed, 18;
his letter of remonstrance, 18;
the case of Glanville v. Courtney, 19;
a fire here, 19;
tobacco at Durham House, 20;
falls into decay, 36.

Durham House Street, 8, 21, 72.

Durham Rents, 72.

Durham Yard, 36-37, 71-73, 75.

Durham Yard, fire in, 38-41.

Dyce, William, 242.


Edgecombe, Lady, 159.

Edward III. at Durham House, 9.

Edward IV., 251.

Edward VI., 14, 251.

Edward VII. King, 212, 215.

Edwin and Angelina, 258.

Egerton, Lord Chancellor, 221.

Egerton, Thomas (Baron Ellesmere), 19.

Elizabeth, Princess (Queen), 11, 14, 15-16, 17, 221.

Elliston, William, 164.

Embankment, Victoria, the, 191.

Essex, Earl of, 221.

Etherege, Sir George, 29.

Etty, William, 242-243.

Evelyn, 229, 232-233, 247, 263.

Exchange, the New, the laying of the foundation stone, 21;
the Earl of Salisbury proprietor, 21;
opposition of the City, 22;
its interior, 22;
opened by James I. as "Britain's Burse," 22;
Stow's description, 23-24;
the Venetian Ambassador writes about it to the Doge and State of
Venice, 24;
the Earl of Salisbury, 25-26;
Tobie Matthew, 26;
its most flourishing period, 27;
various allusions to it by the dramatists of Charles II. period,
and others, 27-30;
the first edition of Othello published here, 28;
Henry Herringman, the publisher, 29;
Dryden, Otway, Etherege, 29;
Samuel Pepys, 29, 37, 38, 39, [see also Appendix];
Addison, 30;
Rules for the New Exchange, 30-35;
murder here, 44-48;
the "White Milliner," 49-63;
Douglas Jerrold's play on the subject, 57-63;
"Nan" Clarges, Duchess of Albemarle, 63-71;
Gay's Trivia, 71;
quack doctors, 71;
overcrowding of the Exchange, 73;
order of the Inner Star Chamber, 74.


Fairfax, General, 226-229.

Fair Penitent, The, 141, 247.

Farren, William, 58.

Fatal Falsehood, The, 159.

Fergusson, James, 95-96.

Fire at Northumberland House, 263.

FitzHerbert, Mrs, 212.

Flaxman, John, 242.

Foote, Samuel, 41.

Forbes, William, 154.

Fox, C.J., 147, 212.

"Fox-under-the-Hill," the, 186-187.

Franklin, Benjamin, 269.

Fuller, Thomas, 5.

Fuseli, Henry, 242.


Garrick, David, wine merchant in the Adelphi, 40;
purchases No. 5 Adelphi (then Royal) Terrace, 123;
his London home, 1773, until his death in 1779, 123-141;
his last appearance on the stage, 125;
helps in the production of Percy, 126;
his friendship for Hannah More, 126, 128, 129;
eulogised by Edmund Burke and Fox, 127;
Hannah More writes to Garrick, 129-131;
his answer, 131;
her thanks, 132;
Garrick presents her with his "Felix Buckles," 133;
he writes to her again and encourages her in regard to her
tragedy, 134-135;
"Mr Garrick's study, Adelphi, ten at night," 136;
the "sour crout party," 138;
Garrick carries Hannah More's dinner from the Adelphi to the
Turk's Head, 138;
his illness and death, 139-141;
his burial in Westminster Abbey, 141, 145-148;
his funeral, 145-148, Appendix;
Johnson's praise of him, 148-152;
Johnson's lament—"two such friends," 158;
Shakespeare's gloves presented to him, 167-169;
he solicits the brothers Adam on behalf of Andrew Becket, the
bookseller, 171;
a doubtful anecdote, 171;
"Anthony Pasquin's" misstatement, 248.

Garrick, Mrs, 128-132, 138-144;
her famous dinner party, 153-158;
her life in Adelphi Terrace, 158-161;
her consideration for Hannah More, 161;
"a great dinner" at her house, 162;
her last letter to Hannah More, 163;
her death and burial in the Abbey, 164;
memoir of, 165-166;
bequeath's Shakespeare's gloves to Mrs Siddons, 166.

Gay, John, 71.

George III., 125, 212.

George IV., 212.

George Court, 21, 72.

Gerbier, Sir Balthazar, 222, 224.

Gibbon, Edward, 181.

Gilbert Gurney, 182.

Glanville v. Courtney, 19.

Goldsmith, Oliver, 121, 122;
his pathetic letters to Garrick, 167-169, 258-262.

Goodman, Bishop, 16.

Goodman, Godfrey, 225.

Gordon, Lord George, 212.

Graham, James ("Dr"), 172-181.

Grand Hotel, 268.

Great Exhibition of 1851, 268.

Grenville, Lord, 212.

Grey, Lady Jane, 15.

Guns in the Adelphi, 188.


Hackman, James, 270.

Hamilton, Lady (Emma Lyon), 176-178.

Hamilton, Mrs, 162.

Hanway, Jonas, 103.

Hardy, Thomas, 216.

Harley, Robert, 244.

Hastings, Lord, 15.

Hatfield, Thomas, Bishop of Durham, 7, 9.

Hawkins, Sir John, 260.

Haydon, Benjamin, 102.

Haymarket Theatre, 174.

Hazlitt, William, 183.

Heath, Archbishop of York, 8, 219.