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Trinity Chapel, Conduit Street, 676. |
Trophies, Waterloo, 356-359;
Eagles at Whitehall, 377.

--, Bonaparte's carriage, 643
et seq.

Trotter, John, Esq. account of his
Bazaar, and his house in Soho,
Square, 658-066.

Tufton Street, Colonel Blood's house
in, 576; Cockpit in, 576, 577.
Two-Penny Post Office, General,

667.

Tyburn, account of, 68%, 683, 747.

V.

Vanburgh, Sir John, his character as
an architect, 212; the architect
and founder of the Opera House,
331; ridiculed by Swift and Pope,
ib.

Vault, description of the one in
which King Charles I. was in-
terred, 413.

Vauxhall Bridge, or the Regent's

Bridge, account of, 578; improve-

ments near, 579.

View of St. James's, Westminster
Abbey, and Hall, ancient, 295,
296.

Vincent, the late Dr. acknowledge-

ments to, 538, 750.
Vine Street, Piccadilly, 155.
Votes, number of at the last general
election for Westminster, 157.

U.

Unitarians of Essex Street, 197.
Chapel, Princes Street,

572.
Urn, fall of one, from the New
Church in the Strand, 201.
Uxbridge House, 679.

W.

Wake, Dr. William, some account
of, 596.

Wallingford House, now The Admi-
ralty Office, 367.
War Office, accomptant's depart-
ment in Duke Street, 356.
Ware, Richard, Abbot, 15; on the

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Weeks's Museum, 657,
Welbeck Street, and Chapel, 758,739.
Well, St. Clement's, 177
Welsh Charity School, 721.
West's, Mr. his exhibition of pictures,
348; character of his works, 350;
effects of them, $51

Westall, Mr. his exhibition of pic.
tures, 328.

WESTMINSTER, sketch of its civil
and political history, including a
view of its municipal government,
franchises, liberties, extent, &c.
153-161; its origin, 153: made
a bishop's see, 154; and a city,
ib; bishopric dissolved by Edward
IV. ib. still a city, through cour
tesy, ib; its government and
jurisdiction, 154, 155, 156; courts
of justice, 155, 156; burgesses,
156; members of parliament, ib;
number of votes given at the last
general election, 157; practice of
electing members in, tree of ex-
pense, 158; population, 158;
increase of its extent, ib.; now
joined to the City of London, 158,
159; road to London from, 159;
parishes, ib boundary of the
City and Liberty of, ib,; seat of
government, 160; streets, &c. ib.;
squares, 161: pavement of, 182.
WESTMINSTER ABBEY, when and
by whom founded, 11, 12; destroy.
ed by the Danes, 13; relics said
to have been found in, ib.; much
damaged by fire in 1297, 15; the
choir, 17; altar-piece, ib. ; chapel
of St. Edward, description of, 17,
18, 24, 25-36; pavement, 18, 19,
20, 21. 22; pulpit, 22; organ,
23; ceiling, ib; roof, ib.; chan-
try, 27; models of churches in,
27; Chapel of St. Mary', or Henry
Seventh's, 16-147; coronation
chairs,

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chairs, $3; of Henry V. 34; north
trancept 35, 30; part of St. John
the Evangelist's chapel, 51; part
of the side of Islop's chauntry, ib.;
St. Paul's Chapel, 64; of Henry
VII. 98; St. Edmond's Chapel,
88; of Saint Benedict, 93, et seq.;
Chapel of St. Nicholas, 95; South
trancept, or the Poet's Corner, 98;
Chapel of St. Blaize, 108; South
aisle, 110; the nave, 116; North
West view of, 122; windows, 123;
124, 147; screen, 125; belfrey,
126; North aisle, 128, 133;
pavement, 133; four shields of
the contributors to this church
ramain tolerably perfect, 137;
North tower, stair-case, and roof,
137, 138; view from the tower,
138; the cloisters, ib. ; the ancient
Chapel House, 142; outside, 145;
great door-way, ib. 146; painted
window, ib.; towers, &c. ib. ;
Jerusalem chamber, 146; chapels,
147; its decayed state lamented
by Mr. Malcolm, 147, and by Mr.
Britton, 148, (note); present im-
provements in, 148, 149, et seq.;
Chapter House, 149, See Monu-
ments, &c.
WESTMINSTER BRIDGE, plan of,
526; extent, 527; piers, 527,
528; arches, 528, 529; materials,
529; sinking of one of the piers,
530; expense of building, &c. ib.
Guildhall, 532;
Court of Insolvent Debtors, held
in, ib.

Hall, its history
and uses, 421; entertainment of
six thousand persons, in, 421-
422; coronation of Queen Eleanor
in, 422; entertainment of the
Pope's Legate, &c. in, 422; enter-
tainment in on the marriage of
Richard, Earl of Cromwell, ib.;
entertainment by Edward 1I. in,
423; pulled down by Richard II.
ib.; re-erected, ib.; Christinas
festival in, 423, 424; first called
The New Hall Palace, 424:
House of Commons in, ib.; used
for the trial of peers accused of
high treason, 427; other offices
in, (viz.) The Court of Exche-
quer, 501; The Court of Common
Plens, 511; The Court of Chan-

cery, 512; The Court of King's
Bench, &c. &c. 501-513; Trial
of the Duchess of Kingston in,
514-515 516; Trial of Warren
Hastings in, 516; description of
the Hall itself, ib..

Infirmary, 568.

Hospital, or Public

Infirmary, 568.

School, 157, 158;
character, 561; discipline not
sufficiently rigid, ib. ; performance
of Terence at, ib.

Whigs. their supposed province in
Parliament, 484.

Whitcher's Almshouses, account of
569.

WHITEHALL, history and descrip-
tion, 369; Cardinal Wolsey's
great state at, 369-372; becomes
a royal residence, 372; Queen
Elizabeth's vanity at, 373; ban-
quetting house, 373-375; tour-
nament at, 373, 374; chapel, 376;
ceiling, ib.; Eagles, 377; Charles
II. at, 380; persons occupying it
at various times, 403.
White Horse Cellar, 615.
The Whore's Nest, a name given to
the Middle Exchange, Strand,
228.

Will of Henry VII. 82-88.
Willis's Rooms, 641.
Wilson, style and character of his
paintings, 32; causes of the ine-
quality in his works, 222, 323.
Wimbleton House, now Doiley's
Warehouse, 202, 203.
William II. number of Parliaments
in his reign, 478.
Windmill Street, why so called, 581.
Window, painted, over the great
door-way of Westminster Abbey,
145, 146.

at St Margaret's
church, Westminster, 416-419;
its history, 419-420.
Windows in Henry the Seventh's
Chapel, 76.

in Westminster Abbey,
123, 124, 147.
Wolsey, Cardinal, great magnificence
of his mode of living, 369.
Women, had at first no share in the
ballet, 338.

Worship, Divine, pictures used in,
recommended, 326.
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Wren,

Wren, Sir Christopher, on Westmin- | York Stairs. See Water Gate.

ster Abbey, 145, 147, 149.

Y.

York Buildings, the ancient residence
of the Archbishop of York, 214;
its late mhabitants, ib.
York Buildings Water Works, 245.
York, Duke of, his Theatre in Por-
tugal Street, 183.

York Street, formerly called Petty
France, 572.

York Street, Sir Joshua Wedgewood's
House in, 642; Swedenborgian
chapel in, 643.

Z.

Zoffani, character of his works, as an
artist, 325.

INDEX OF PLACES

TO THE THIRD VOLUME, PART II. OF THE HISTORY
OF LONDON AND MIDDLESEX.

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Chancery Lane, 696.

Clare Market, 176.

283.

184.

Clarges House, 680.
Clare Street, 185.

Clement's Inn Fields, 184.

Lane, 185, 186.

Clerkenwell, 177, 213.

Green, 722-

Cleveland Gardens, 598.
Cleveland House, 599, 631, 632,
633, 634, 635, 636, 637, 638.
Square, 631.

Clink, the, 544.
Cockpit, the, 282, 283.
Cold Harbour Lane, 226.
Coleman hedge-field, 581.
College of Physicians, (New) 657.
Commons, House, 466, 467.
Conduit Mead, 735.

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Street, 600, 604, 676.
Yard, 374.
Constitution Hill, 620.
Coram Street, 718.
Cork Street, 678.
Cotton Garden, 463.
Coventry House, 611.
Street, 611.

Covent Garden Theatre, 277,278,

279, 288, 293.

Marke, 278.

Piazza, 279.

Council Chamber, Lincoln's Inn,

699.

Court of Exchequer, 501.

Crabtree Fields, 598.

Chapel Royal, 305, 306, 307,488. Crane Court, 217.

Street, 682.

Little, 570, 572.

Craven Street, 245.
Crown Street, 159.

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Cranbourne Street, 610.
Crosby Hall, 287.
Cumberland Place, 735.

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