CHAPTER III. THE STRAND (SOUTH SIDE).

Essex Street--Beheading a Bishop--Exeter Place--The Gipsy Earl--Running a-muck--Lettice Knollys--A Portrait of Essex--Robert, Earl of Essex, the Parliamentary General--The Poisoning of Overbury--An Epicurean Doctor--Clubable Men--The Grecian--The Templar’s Lounge--Tom’s Coffee-house--A Princely Collector--“The Long Strand”--“Honest Shippen”--Boswell’s Enthusiasm-- Sale and the Koran--The Infamous Lord Mohun--A fine Rebuke--Jacob Tonson pp. 25-55