CHAPTER IX.

CHARING CROSS AND WHITEHALL.

Old Charing Cross, and New St. Martin's Church -- Statue of Charles I. -- Execution of Regicides -- Ben Jonson -- Wallingford House, now the Admiralty -- Villiers, Duke of Buckingham; Sir Walter Scott's Account of him -- Misrepresentation of Pope respecting his Death -- Charles's Horse a Satirist -- Locket's Ordinary -- Sir George Etherege -- Prior and his Uncle's Tavern -- Thomson -- Spring Gardens -- Mrs. Centlivre -- Dorset Place, and Whitcombe Street, &c., formerly Hedge Lane -- The Wits and the Bailiffs -- Suffolk Street -- Swift and Miss Vanhomrigh -- Calves' Head Club, and the Riot it occasioned -- Scotland Yard -- Pleasant Advertisement -- Beau Fielding, and his Eccentricities -- Vanbrugh -- Desperate Adventure of Lord Herbert of Cherbury 355