of Smollett's Hugh Strap-David Copperfield's Chambers-Evelyn lives in Villiers Street-Sir Richard Steele-Zara acted Here-Mrs The Strand in 1353-St Mary Rounceval-Northampton House-Earl of Surrey, the Poet-Suffolk House-Suckling's Ballade upon a Wedding -Algernon Percy, Earl of Northumberland-The Restoration planned at Northumberland House-Lady Elizabeth Percy-Her Romantic Marriages-Murder of "Tom of Ten Thousand"-The "Proud" Duke of Somerset-Edwin and Angelina-Goldsmith at Northumberland House-Fire Here-Dr Percy's Library saved— The Famous Lion-Demolition of the House-The Duke's Lament -Northumberland Avenue-Craven Street-Benjamin Franklin- List of Illustrations The Terrace, York Buildings, Adelphi Frontispiece TO FACE PAGE The Adelphi (Durham Yard and the New Exchange) and Charing Durham House. Salisbury House. Worcester House The New Exchange, Strand The Thames, from the Water Works, York Buildings, Adelphi Ivy Lane, Strand (the boundary of the Duchy of Lancaster and the St Mary Rounceval, the Original Site of Northumberland House. Charing Cross, before the building of Northumberland Avenue The Literary History of the Adelphi and its Neighbourhood CHAPTER I Anthony Bek, Bishop of Durham-The Papal Legate and the Oxford Clergy-Henry III. and the Earl of LeicesterPrince Henry-The Author of Philobiblon-Edward III.— Thomas Hatfield Henry VIII.- Cuthbert TunstallCranmer at Durham House-Anne Boleyn-Henry VIII. and Anne of Cleves feast at Durham House-Dudley, Duke of Northumberland-Lady Jane Grey-Queen MaryQueen Elizabeth-Philip Sidney-Sir Walter RaleighElizabeth Throgmorton-Glanville v. Courtney-Thomas Egerton-Fire at Durham House-Raleigh and his Pipe. It is my pleasant duty to relate in these pages the romantic story of kings and queens, of prelates and princes, of book-writers and book-sellers, of artists, architects, and actors, and of other players on life's fitful stage who, for six centuries and a half, have contributed to one of the most interesting chapters in the history of London. Within that small space which has been known as the Adelphi since 1772, a district so confined that it is contained within five hundred square yards, came, in its earlier years, several bishops and other clerical dignitaries, then that prince who was afterwards the fifth King Henry of England, anon, amid much pomp and pageantry, King Henry VIII. Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth were familiar with it, and here lived, for twenty years, Sir Walter Raleigh, who inhabited one of the towers which is seen in Hollar's engraving of Durham House. Lady Jane Grey went hence to the Tower and thence to the scaffold. Dryden alluded to it in one of his plays. Voltaire drank wine here, and its memory is hallowed by Dr Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and a host of other celebrities. Here David Garrick began his career, and here, curiously enough, he ended it, the funeral procession of the "poor player" reaching from the Adelphi to Westminster Abbey, those who followed him to the grave numbering many men of rank and genius, including Johnson, and a large concourse of the general public who grieved for the loss of the great actor. The history of the world-famous banking firm of Coutts & Co. is indelibly associated with the Adelphi. Dickens, when a boy, prowled about its dark arches -until lately, one of the most degraded spots in London-and last, though not least, the brothers Adam, to whom London owes several architectural triumphs, in addition to the Adelphi, claim our attention. It is said that at |