Bloomsbury and St. Giles past and present. (1890)

10,September, 2008

The first of two by George Clinch

TITLE

Bloomsbury and St. Giles past and present. (1890)
WITH HISTORICAL AND ANTIQUARIAN NOTICES
OF THE VICINITY.

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AUTHOR

George CLINCH (M: 1860 - 1921 Feb 2 or 5)

PUBLISHED

TRUSLOVE AND SHIRLEY, 7, ST. PAUL’S CHURCHYARD. 1890.

DESCRIPTION

INCLUDING NUMEROUS REPRODUCTIONS OF RARE ENGRAVINGS
AND MAPS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. The illustrations have been produced by The London Stereoscopic Company in their Photomezzotype process.

Rich as are the immediate environs of London in historical memories and associations, perhaps the ancient village which in the Middle Ages clustered around the Hospital and Church of St. Giles, and the aristocratic quarter which grew up in Bloomsbury in the eighteenth century, contain more features of antiquarian interest, were the scenes of more remarkable incidents in the history of England, and were the homes of more eminent men and women in the various walks of life than any other place of equal size, and equal distance from the heart of London.

In compiling the following account of the two parishes the author has found no lack of material; he has suffered rather from the richness of it. The work of selecting, with a due regard to the palates of his readers and the just demands of the subject he has undertaken to illustrate, has been no easy task.

CONTENTS.
ST. GILES-IN- THE- FIELDS.
CHAPTER I. Early history—Condition in Roman times—Defences of London—Blemund’s Ditch—Condition of St. Giles’s in the Middle Ages—The paving of High Oldburn—Fox-hunting at St. Giles’s—St. Giles’s in the time of Queen Elizabeth and King James the First—Rural condition—St. Giles’s at the Restoration—Population—The Lepers’ Hospital; foundation, charters, abuse of the charity—The Lepers’ Chapel—Parish Church—Wealth of the hospital—Dissolution of the hospital, and spoliation of its possessions—Ancient custom connected with the hospital—Jack Sheppard—The manor of St. Giles
CHAPTER II. Demolition of the chapel of the Lepers’ Hospitals—New tower—Building of a new church, 1624—Consecration of the new church by the Bishop of London—Account of the church in 1708—-Ornaments and fittings—The church tower—Dimensions of the church— Pulpit—Painted glass—Puritanical objections—Petition to Parliament against “Popish reliques “—Removal and sale of church ornaments—Communion cup—Dilapidation of the church—Proposal to build a new church, 1715—Petition to Parliament, 1717.— Design for the new church, 1731—Henry Flitcroft, the architect.—St. Giles’s Churchyard —Resurrection Gate—Rectors of St. Giles’s Church—Curious epitaphs
CHAPTER III. CELEBRATED OR REMARKABLE CHARACTERS :—Lord Herbert of Cherbury—Alice Duchess Dudley—George Chapman—Andrew Marvell—James Shirley—Sir Roger l’Estrange— Oliver Plunkett—Richard Pendrell—Isaac Ragg—William Wrench—Simon Edy—Old Jack Norris—Anne Henley—John Mitford
CHAPTER IV. PARISH INSTITUTIONS :—The Gallows—Execution of Lord Cobham, and of Babington—The Pound and the Cage—The Round House—The Watch-house—The Stocks and the Whipping-post—Fire-engine.—INNS . AND ALEHOUSES :—The Black Bear—The Black Jack—The Black Lamb—The Bowl—The Cock and Pye—The Croche Hose—The Crooked Billet—The Crown—The Fortune Tavern—The George and Blue Boar— The Hampshire Hog—The Horseshoe—The Maid in the Moon—The Maidenhead Inn—The Rose—Le Swan on le Hop—Toten, or Totten, Hall—The Turnstile Tavern —The Vine—The White Hart
CHAPTER V. CHARITIES*:—Skydmore, or Scudamore’s, Gift—Holford’s Charity—Shelton’s Charity School —Gifts of Sir W. Coney and the Hon. R. Bertie—M. Boswell’s Gift—E. Cumming’s Gift—F. Batt’s Gift—Edward’s Gift—Atkinson’s Gift—Charity given by an unknown donor—Leverton’s Charity—Almshouses—Danvers’s Charity—Bailey’s Charity —-Earl of Southampton’s Gift—Duchess Dudley’s Gift—Carter’s Gift—Wooden’s Gift —Houses in Charles Street—Shakespeare’s Gift—Mrs. Gregory’s Gift—Leverton’s Gift—Charities lost or expired—B. Ivery’s Gift—Sowerby’s Gift—R. Hulcup’s Gift— Bloomsbury Parochial Schools—Lying-in Hospital, Endell Street .
CHAPTER VI. Cock and Pye Fields—Seven Dials—Evelyn’s account—Gay’s lines on the Seven Dials— Stone Column removed to Sayes Court, Chertsey, and afterwards to Weybridge— Inscription—Moral character of the Seven Dials—Literature of the Seven Dials—James Catnach—Song and ballad printers—Broadsides relating to St. Giles’s Workhouse— The Great Plague—French Refugees—The Rookery of St. Giles’s—Dudley Street— Lewknor’s Lane—Sir Lewis Lewknor—Social condition of Lewknor’s Lane—Short’s Gardens—Nell Gwynne—The Cockpit Theatre—Drury Lane—Dickens’s reference to Drury Lane—Ancient Bath, Endell Street .
CHAPTER VII. LINCOLN’S INN FIELDS :—Gay’s account—Roman remains—Fiket’s Field—Improvements in Lincoln’s Inn Fields—Execution of William Lord Russell—”The Night-walker of Bloomsbury”—Eminent inhabitants of Lincoln’s Inn Fields—Robbery of Lord Chancellor Finch’s mace, etc.—The Duke’s Theatre—Newcastle House—The Fifth of November—Sloane Museum—Egyptian sarcophagus—Hogarth’s pictures—Royal College of Surgeons: the Museum; the Library—”The Old Curiosity Shop”—Anecdote of Kneller and Radcliffe—Freemasons’ Hall—Great Queen Street Chapel .
CHAPTER VIII.
LINCOLN’S INN:—The Gate-house—The Old Hall—Tancred’s bequest—Cromwell and Thurloe at Lincoln’s Inn—Discovery of the Thurloe Papers—The Chapel—The Preachers —The Crypt—The Stone Building—The New Hall and Library—The Gardens—Gray’s Inn—The Manor of Portpoole—Early history—Accommodation at Gray’s Inn—The Hall—Painted glass—The Chapel—The Library—Gray’s Inn Coffee-house—Thackeray —Red Lion Square—Cromwell, Ireton, and Bradshaw—Obelisk—Celebrated inhabitants —The Foundling Hospital—Captain Coram—Hatton Garden premises—Institution of the Foundling Hospital—Hogarth—” March to Finchley “—Pictures at the Foundling Hospital—Raphael’s cartoon—Handel—West—Tokens
BLOOMSBURY.
CHAPTER IX.
Bloomsbury—Origin of name—Early condition—The Manor of Bloomsbury—New parish of St. George, Bloomsbury—Nicholas Hawksmoor—St. George’s Church—The steeple —List of Rectors—Bloomsbury Market—Southampton House—Bedford House —Montague House—Robert Hooke—Fire at Montague House—The gardens of Montague House—Environs of Montague House—” The Brothers’ Steps “
CHAPTER X. THE BRITISH MUSEUM :—Sir Hans Sloane—Museum in Bloomsbury Square—Foundation of the British Museum—Regulations for the admission of the public—Duties of the officials—Donations to the British Museum—The King’s Library—New buildings— Panizzi’s scheme for a new Library and Reading-room—Opening of the new Library and Reading-room—Description of the Reading-room and Library—Bust of Panizzi— Electric light—The White Wing—Principal Librarians—Department of Printed Books—Sir Hans Sloane’s Library—Old Royal Collection—Mr. Cracherode’s Library —Sir Joseph Banks’s Library—Library of George III—Rt. Hon. Thomas Grenville’s Library—Bookcases—Arrangement of books—Shelf-space—Hanging presses—Department of Manuscripts—Sloane, Cotton, Harley, Royal, Lansdowne, Hargrave, Burney, King’s (George III.), Egerton, Arundel, Additional, and Stowe Collections of Manuscripts—Department of Prints and Drawings—Department of Antiquities—Greek and Roman Antiquities—Elgin Marbles—Lycian Marbles—Mausoleum of Helicarnassus —Antiquities from Ephesus—Nollekens’ visit to the British Museum—The Portland Vase—Department of Egyptian and Oriental Antiquities—Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities—Department of Coins and Medals . . . .
CHAPTER XI Gordon Rioters at Bloomsbury—John Scott, Earl of Eldon—Dr. John Radcliffe—Bloomsbury Square—Isaac d’Israeli—Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfleld—Russell Square —Statue of the Duke of Bedford—Sir Thomas Lawrence—Literary Associations of Bloomsbury—Mrs. Griggs—Modern Buildings—The Duke of Bedford
CHAPTER XII. Bedford Chapel—The Protestant Episcopal Church of the Savoy—Bloomsbury Chapel— The Swiss Protestant Church—Christ Church—St. Giles’s Christian Mission—National
Refuges for Homeless and Destitute Children—The Pharmaceutical Society—The
Hospital for Sick Children—The National Hospital for the Paralyzed and Epileptic—
The Alexandra Hospital, Queen Square—French Hospital and Dispensary—The Italian
Hospital .
CHAPTER XIII. The London Homoeopathic Hospital—The Russell Institution—Mudie’s Select Library— Theatres—The Royal Music-hall—The Holborn Casino—Messrs. Combe & Co.’s Brewery
—Horseshoe Brewery—Messrs. Pears’ business offices—Holloway’s—Bloomsbury and
Inns of Court Volunteers—The Royal Toxophilite Society—Sir Ashton Lever—Grounds
of the Royal Toxophilite Society at Bloomsbury—” Holborn Drollery “—” The Holborn

Maps and illustrations.
1. MAP OF ST. GILES’S AND ITS VICINITY, FROM MORDEN AND LEA’S PLAN OF THE CITY
OF LONDON, 1732 .
2. MAP OF ST. GILES’S AND ITS VICINITY IN 1591, FROM AGAS’S MAP OF LONDON
3. CONJECTURAL PLAN OF ST. GILES’S AND THE VICINITY IN THE 13TH CENTURY, FROM
PARTON’S ” HISTORY OF ST. GILES’S HOSPITAL ” .
4. ST. GILES’S CHURCH AND THE ” RESURRECTION GATE ” .
5. SKETCHES OF OLD HOUSES IN ST. GILES’S
6. BROAD STREET, ST. GILES’S, ABOUT 1830
7. STONE COLUMN WHICH FORMERLY STOOD IN THE SEVEN DIALS,
TO THE DUCHESS OF YORK AT WEYBRIDGE .
8. BIRD FAIR, SEVEN DIALS .
9. THE ROOKERY, ST. GILES’S, ABOUT 1800 .
10. PORTRAIT OF NELL GWYNNE, AFTER THE PAINTING BY S I R P,
11. TRIAL OF LORD WILLIAM RUSSELL
12. VIEW OF LINCOLN’S INN, 1755
13. VIEW OF THE NEW HALL AND LIBRARY, LINCOLN’S INN
14. BIRD’S-EYE VIEW OF GRAY’S INN, ABOUT 1750
15. PORTRAIT OF CAPT. CORAM, AFTER THE PAINTING BY HOGARTH
16. PLAN OF PART OF THE MANOR OF BLOOMSBURY IN 1664-5, FROM A MS. IN THE
BRITISH MUSEUM
17. ST. GEORGE’S CHURCH, BLOOMSBURY .
18. VIEW OF SOUTHAMPTON (OR BLOOMSBURY) SQUARE, ABOUT 1746 .
19. MONTAGUE HOUSE FROM THE COURTYARD, 1714 .
20. PORTRAIT OF S I R HANS SLOANE, AFTER THE PAINTING BY KNELLER .
21. THE BRITISH MUSEUM, 1853 .
22. ENCAMPMENT OF TROOPS IN THE GARDENS OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM, AT THE TIME OF THE GORDON RIOTS, 1780 .
23. VIEW OF QUEEN SQUARE, 1787 .
24. ” BEATING THE BOUNDS,” FROM AN OLD PRINT .

LANGUAGE: English

SAMPLE

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PROVISION

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SPIRIT TEACHINGS, THROUGH THE MEDIUMSHIP OF WILLIAM STAINTON MOSES (Memorial Edition)

5,September, 2008

Contains a biography of William Stainton Moses

TITLE

SPIRIT TEACHINGS, THROUGH THE MEDIUMSHIP OF WILLIAM STAINTON MOSES (Memorial Edition)
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AUTHOR

The Reverend William Stainton Moses (see source Wikipedia for more details) (born Donnington, near Lincoln, England, in 1839, died 1892), was an English clergyman and Spiritualist.

AUTHOR OF “:PSYCHOGRAPHY,” “SPIRIT IDENTITY,” “HIGHER ASPECTS OF
SPIRITUALISM,” “PERSONAL REMINISCENCES OF EPES SARGENT,”
” SPIRITUALISM AT THE CHURCH CONGRESS,” ETC., ETC.

Educated at Bedford School, University College School, London and Exeter College, Oxford, he was ordained as a priest of the Church of England by Bishop Samuel Wilberforce in 1870.

He attended his first séance with Miss Lottie Fowler in 1872. Charles Williams and D. D. Home were the next mediums he visited. Five months after his introduction to spiritualism, he had his first experience of levitation. The automatic scripts of Moses began to appear in his books Spirit Teachings and Spirit Identity. The scripts date from 1872 to 1883 and fill twenty-four notebooks. All but one have been preserved by the London Spiritualist Alliance.

In 1881-1882 he helped to found the Society for Psychical Research, with Edmund Rogers and Sir William Barrett. Its early members included F. W. H. Myers, Henry Sidgwick, and Edmund Gurney.

In 1884, he was a founding member, together with Rogers, of the London Spiritualist Alliance, afterwards the College of Psychic Studies.

PUBLISHED

LONDON SPIRITUALIST ALLIANCE, LTD. 110, ST. MARTIN’S LANE, LONDON, W.C. 1898.

DESCRIPTION

Includes Biography of William Stainton Moses.

THIS Edition of ” Spirit Teachings” is issued by the Council of the London Spiritualist Alliance in affectionate memory of their friend, Mr. W. Stainton Moses, to whom the Alliance owed its existence, and who was its first and only President from its formation in 1884 to the time of his decease on September 5th, 1892. Anxious to show their loving regard for one with whom it had been their pleasure and privilege to co-operate in the work which was so dear to him, and to which he gave so large a portion of his very busy life, the Council have concluded that the fittest memorial to his worth, and to the value of his labours, would be the re-issue of the book which he himself regarded as the most generally useful of his publications.

THE communications which form the bulk of this volume were received by the process known as Automatic or Passive Writing. This is to be distinguished from Psychography. In the former case, the Psychic holds the pen or pencil, or places his hand upon the Planchette, and the message is written without the conscious intervention of his mind. In the latter case, the writing is direct, or is obtained without the use of the hand of the psychic, and sometimes without the aid of pen or pencil. Automatic Writing is a well-known method of communication with the invisible world of what we loosely call Spirit. I use that word as the most intelligible to my readers, though I am well aware that I shall be told that I ought not to apply any such term to many of the unseen beings who communicate with earth, of whom we hear much and often as being the reliquiae of humanity, the shells of what once were men. It is no part of my business to enter into this moot question. My interlocutors call themselves Spirits, perhaps because I so called them, and Spirits they are to me for my present purposes.

LANGUAGE: English

SAMPLE

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The Shilling Peerage 1875

3,September, 2008

Somewhat a labour of love and this book had been badly rebound and was quite fragile and damaged.

TITLE

The Shilling Peerage for 1875 Twenty First year of publication.

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AUTHOR

EDWARD WALFORD, M.A. LATE SCHOLAR OF BALLIOL COLLEGE, OXFORD, AND FELLOW OF THE GENEALOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN

PUBLISHED

ROBERT HARDWICKE, 192, PICCADILLY, W
And all Booksellers in Town and Country
1875.

DESCRIPTION

CONTAINING Alphabetical list of the House of Lords TOGETHER WITH THE Date of the Creation of each Title; the Birth, Accession, and Marriage of each Peer; his Heir Apparent or Presumptive; FAMILY NAME AND POLITICAL BIAS; AS ALSO A BRIEF NOTICE OF THE OFFICES WHICH HE HAS HITHERTO HELD; AND HIS COUNTRY RESIDENCE AND TOWN ADDRESS. WITH COMPLETE LISTS OF THE SCOTCH & IRISH PEERS, WHO ARE NOT MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS ; OF PEERESSES IN THEIR OWN RIGHT ; OF PEERAGES IN THEIR ORDER OF CREATION, ETC. ETC.

THE House of Lords or Peers (for the terms are used indifferently) is the second of the three bodies which together are said to compose the British legislature —King (or Queen), Lords, and Commons. Its origin, which in fact is that of the British Parliament, is involved in obscurity. The House of Lords must be regarded as the natural development of the state of things existing under the Feudal System, when the King ranked as but ” primus inter pares,” the first among his Peers or equals,* namely, the nobles who held their lands of the Crown by the tenure of military service. The very existence of the term “landlord,” as used in the present time, is enough to show that in the earlier days of English history the ideas of territorial possession and nobility were closely connected ; and we find, as a matter of fact, that it was the tenure of certain lands which constituted a Noble of the Realm in the centuries immediately succeeding the Norman Conquest.

LANGUAGE: English

SAMPLE

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PROVISION

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