CHAPTER XI. LONG ACRE AND ITS TRIBUTARIES.

The Plague--Great Queen Street--Burning Panama--Lord Herbert’s Poetry--Kneller’s Vanity--Conway House-- Winchester House--Ryan the Actor--An Eminent Scholar and Antiquary--Miss Pope--The Freemasons’ Hall--Gentleman Lewis--Franklin’s Self-denial--The Gordon Riots--Colonel Cromwell--An Eccentric Poetaster--Black Will’s Rough Repartee--Ned Ward--Prior’s Humble Cell--Stothard--The Mug-houses--Charles Lamb pp. 262-286