CHAPTER V.

LINCOLN'S INN AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD.

Lincoln's Inn -- Ben Jonson's Bricklaying -- Enactments against Beards -- Oliver Cromwell, More, Hale, and other eminent Students of Lincoln's Inn -- Lincoln's Inn Fields, or Square -- Houses there built by Inigo Jones -- Pepys's Admiration of the Comforts of Mr. Povey -- Surgeons' College -- Sir Richard and Lady Fanshawe, and Lord Sandwich -- Execution of the patriotic Lord Russell, with an Account of the Circumstances that led to and accompanied it, and some Remarks on his Character -- Affecting Passages from the Letters of his Widow -- Ludicrous Story connected with Newcastle House 192