eign, 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_.

Mr. Cunningham, in his _Chronology_, says the mews was taken down in
1827. In the body of the book he gives the date, perhaps more correctly,
1830. {212}

11. _Brownlow Street, Holborn._ This should be "Brownlow Street, _Drury
Lane_;" George Vertue the engraver was living here in 1748.

12. _White Conduit House._ The anonymous author of _The Sunday Ramble_,
1774, has left us the following description of this once popular
tea-gardens:

"The garden is formed into several pleasing walks, prettily
disposed; at the end of the principal one is a painting, which
serves to render it much larger in appearance than it really is;
and in the middle of the garden is a round fish-pond,
encompassed with a great number of very genteel boxes for
company, curiously cut into the hedges, and adorned with a
variety of Flemish and other painting; there are likewise two
handsome tea-rooms, one over the other, as well as several
inferior ones in the dwelling-house."

"White Conduit Loaves" were for a long time famous, and before the great
augmentation in the price of bread, during the revolutionary war with
France, they formed one of the regular "London cries."

13. _Vauxhall Gar