CHAPTER III.

FLEET STREET.

Burning of the Pope -- St. Bride's Steeple -- Milton -- Illuminated Clock -- Melancholy End of Lovelace the Cavalier -- Chatterton -- Generosity of Hardham, of Snuff Celebrity -- Theatre in Dorset Garden -- Richardson, his Habits and Character -- Whitefriars, or Alsatia -- The Temple -- Its Monuments, Garden, &c. -- Eminent names connected with it -- Goldsmith dies there -- Boswell's first Visit there to Johnson -- Johnson and Madame de Boufflers -- Bernard Lintot -- Ben Jonson's Devil Tavern -- Other Coffee-houses and Shops -- Goldsmith and Temple-bar -- Shire Lane, Bickerstaff, and the Deputation from the Country -- The Kit-Kat Club -- Mrs. Salmon -- Isaac Walton -- Cowley -- Chancery Lane, Lord Strafford, and Ben Jonson -- Serjeant's Inn -- Clifford's Inn -- The Rolls -- Sir Joseph Jekyll -- Church of St. Dunstan in the West -- Dryden's House in Fetter Lane -- Johnson, the Genius Loci of Fleet Street -- His Way of Life -- His Residence in Gough Square, Johnson's Court, and Bolt Court -- Various Anecdotes of him connected with Fleet Street, and with his favourite Tavern, the Mitre 84