3. Campden House, Kensington. Built by Sir Baptist Hickes in 1612; pulled down about 1827.  Nicholas Lechmere, the eminent lawyer, was residing here when he was created a peer.

  “Back in the dark, by Brompton Park,
  He turned up thro’ the Gore,
  So slunk to Campden House so high,
  All in his coach and four.”

  Swift’s Ballad of Duke and no Duke.

4. Finch’s Grotto. A place of amusement, similar to Vauxhall Gardens, much in vogue at the end of the last century.  The “Grotto Gardens,” as they were sometimes called, were situated partly in Winchester Park, or the Clink, and partly in the parish of St. George, Southwark.

5. Leicester Square. Mr. Cunningham does not mention the fine house of Sir George Savile, in this square.  It was subsequently Miss Linwood’s Exhibition of Needlework; and has latterly been used as a concert-room, casino, &c.  The statue in the centre of the square is George I., not George II.

6. Thavie’s Inn. A small brass plate fixed up against the first house on the west side, has the following inscription: 

“Thavie’s Inn, founded by John Thavie, Esquire, in the reign of Edward the Third; Adjudged to be extra-parochial, in the Court of King’s Bench, Guild-hall, in the causes Fraser against the Parish of St. Andrew, Holborn, on the 7th day of July, 1823, and Marsden against the same parish, on the 17th day of October, 1826.  This memorial of the antiquity and privileges of this inn, was erected during the Treasurership of Francis Paget Watson, Esq., Anno Dom.  MDCCCXXVII.”

7. Old Bailey. Peter Bales, the celebrated writing master of Queen Elizabeth’s reign, was master of a school “at the upper end of the Old Bailey” in 1590.  It was here he published his first work, entitled, The Writing School Master.

8. Islington. During the reign of James I. and Charles I., Islington was a favourite resort, on account of its rich dairies.  In that part of the manor of Highbury at the lower end of Islington, there were, in 1611, eight inns principally supported by summer visitors.  See Nelson’s History of Islington, p. 38, 4to., 1811.

  “—­Hogsdone, Islington, and Tothnam Court,
  For cakes and creame had then no small resort.”

  Wither’s Britain’s Remembrancer, 12mo. 1628.

9. Seven Dials. The Doric column with its “seven dials,” which once marked this locality, now “ornaments” the pleasant little town of Walton-on-Thames.

10. Mews (the King’s). The fore-court of the royal mews was used in 1829 for the exhibition of a “monstrous whale.”  The building (which stood upon the site of the National Gallery) was occupied, at the same time, by the Museum of National Manufactures.  The “Museum” was removed, upon the pulling down of the mews, to Dr. Hunter’s house in Leicester Square, and was finally closed upon the establishment of the Royal Polytechnic Institution.