152
Mansion Houses, 88-90
MSS., illuminated, 124, 188
Marble Arch, 103
Mary, Queen, going-away dress of, 32
Mary Queen of Scots, 8, 131, 153, 154, 175
Maypoles, 25, 50
Mazarin, Duchess de, 8, 9
Medici, Marie de, 91
Mercers’ Chapel, 88
Merchant’s House, seventeenth century, 73
Meredith, George, 11
Mews, Royal, 42
Milton, 118, 122
“Mitre” Inn, 112
Mohun, Lord, 36
Monmouth, Duke of, 37, 129
Monument, 71
More, Sir Thomas, 2-4, 7, 15, 38, 79, 80, 129
Museum houses, 12
Museum, how to see, 173
Museums:
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, 190-93
Musical instruments, 188, 189

Napoleonic souvenirs, 124, 160
Nash, 211
Nevill’s Court, 133-35
Norfolk, Duke of, 15
North, Sir Edward, 152, 153

Oldfield, Nance, 168
Old Watling Restaurant, 90
Orleans, Charles d’, 80

Panier Alley, 116
Parish registers, 55
Parks:
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, 210
Paving of London, 104
Pearson, Sir Arthur, 212
Pembroke, Countess of, 7
Pepys, 8, 39, 44, 74, 75, 76, 77, 100, 104, 107, 122, 128, 129, 170, 198
Persian MSS., 188
Peter Pan Statue, 204
Peter the Great, 45-7, 72, 124, 127, 128
Petersham, Lord, 35
Philippa, Queen, 85, 86
Pickering Place, 30
Plane tree, Wood Street, 92
Pope, 28, 109, 208, 213, 216
Port of London Authority’s tower, 77
Prince Henry’s Room, 57, 58
Princes, the Little, 80
Prior, Matthew, 168, 169
Punch, 42
Pye Corner, 138

Queen’s Cottage, Kew, 214, 215

Raleigh, Sir Walter, 58, 59, 79, 80, 132, 170
Ranelagh Club, 21, 109
Ranelagh Gardens, 21, 22
Raphael cartoons, 184, 187
Record Office treasures, 130-33
Refreshments, park, 198, 199
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 22, 36, 183, 184, 190
Richard II., 132, 167
Roman baths, 57, 66, 69, 70, 72
Roman London, 68-70, 72, 77
Romney, 190
Roper, William, 2, 7
Roses, York and Lancaster, 64, 65
Rossetti, the brothers, 11
Rotten Row, 201
Rousseau, 45, 124
Royalty and parks, 200
Rubens, paintings by, 160, 193
Russell, Lord, of Killowen, 34
Russians in Bow Church, 87

St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, 137
St. Dunstan’s Lodge, 212
St. James’s Palace, 30
St. John’s Gate, 147, 148
Savoy Chapel Royal and Manor, 55, 56
Sayes Court, Deptford, 46
Sculpture in British Museum, 175-7
Seething Lane, 74, 76, 77
Serpentine bathers, 201
Shakespearean London, 53, 64, 65, 70, 71, 110, 113, 167
Shrewsbury, Lady, 34
Sidney, Sir Philip, 132
Sloane, Sir Hans, 4, 18, 173, 208
Smith, Captain John, 115
Smithfield, 137, 141
Snuff-takers, 33, 34
Soane Museum, peculiarities of, 123-26
Soane, Sir John, 123-25
Soho, a king’s grave in, 35, 37
Spenser, 64
Stanley, Dean, 165
Staple Inn, Holborn, 105, 106
Steele, Sir Richard, 44, 156
Stone effigies, 115, 116, 137, 138
Strand, 40, 42, 47, 49
Strand Lane, 57, 69
Street names, lore of, 85, 93
Sutherland, Duke of, 31
Sutton, Sir Thomas, 155, 156
Swan, device and sign, 91, 92
Swift, 14
Symons, Arthur, 67

Tattersall’s, 26, 27
Temple:
Church, 63, 64;
entrances, 60, 63;
Fountain Court, 67;
Hall, 65;
memories, 60, 63, 64-67
Tennant Collection, 192
Tennyson, Lord, 122
Thackeray, 63, 156, 191, 212
Thornhill, Sir James, 196
Thynne, Thomas, 121
Thynne, William, 73, 74
Tonson, Jacob, publisher, 109, 110
Took’s Court, 106
Tower of London, 79, 80, 83
Trade unions, past and present, 94, 95
Trafalgar Square, 42
Trinity House, 76-78
Turner, 11, 124, 213
Turner, Sir William, 88, 89
Tyburn, 104, 114, 152
Tyler, Wat, 147

Wallace, Sir Richard, 191
Walpole, Horace, 10, 21, 22, 36, 109, 196, 200, 210
War relics of the services, 160
Wardrobe Court, 134
Water Gates:
Buckingham Street, 43, 48;
Essex House, 47
Watling Street, 68, 90
Watteau, 125
Watts’s “Lawgivers” fresco, 129;
“Physical Energy” statue, 200
Webb, 169
Wellington Arch, 208, 209
Wesley and Whitefield, 135
Westbourne Stream, 24, 25, 200
Westminster Abbey:
Chapel of the Pyx, 165, 166;
Chapter House, 162, 165;
funeral effigies, 166;
Jericho Room, 167;
Jerusalem Chamber, 167, 168;
Little Cloister, 166, 167
Westminster, Dukes of, 55
Westminster School, 168, 169
Whistler, 11, 12
Whitehall Palace, remains of, 160
Whittington, 84, 96, 101
William III., 46, 89, 121, 188
Williamson’s Hotel, 89, 90
Window, east, of St. Margaret’s, 170, 171
Wolsey, Cardinal, 132
Wonders, World’s, in British Museum, 176
Wood Street, 32, 92, 93
Woodwork, old, 72
Wren, Sir Christopher, 33, 53, 54, 60, 71, 86, 88, 100, 114, 124, 141, 160, 169, 204

York House and its tenants, 44
Young, Launcelot, 92, 93

Zoffany, Johann, 215
Zoological Gardens, 211