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,
Tyburn, account of, 68%, 683, 747.
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-
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.
Unitarians of Essex Street, 197. Chapel, Princes Street,
572. Urn, fall of one, from the New Church in the Strand, 201. Uxbridge House, 679.
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
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,
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..
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. 3D 4
Wren, Sir Christopher, on Westmin- | York Stairs. See Water Gate.
ster Abbey, 145, 147, 149.
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.
Zoffani, character of his works, as an artist, 325.
TO THE THIRD VOLUME, PART II. OF THE HISTORY OF LONDON AND MIDDLESEX.
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.
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,
Council Chamber, Lincoln's Inn,
Court of Exchequer, 501.
Crabtree Fields, 598.
Chapel Royal, 305, 306, 307,488. Crane Court, 217.
Craven Street, 245. Crown Street, 159.
Cranbourne Street, 610. Crosby Hall, 287. Cumberland Place, 735.
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