ney's_, or, more correctly, _D'Aubigney's Bowling Green_, was a
celebrated place of amusement "more than sixty years since." It is now
occupied by a group of houses called _Dobney's Place_, near the bottom
of Penton street, and almost opposite to the Belvidere Tavern and Tea
Gardens.

2. _Bridge Street, Westminster._ The Long Wool-staple was on the site of
this street. Henry VIII., in 1548, founded, "in the Long Wool-staple,"
St. Stephen's Hospital, for eight maimed soldiers, who had each a
convenient room, and received an allowance of 5l. a year from the
exchequer. It was removed in 1735, and eight almshouses rebuilt in St.
Anne's Lane, bearing the inscription "Wool-staple Pensioners, 1741." In
1628, in the Overseer's books of St. Margaret's is rated in the
Wool-staple "Orlando Gibbons ij d."

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 r