. The literary history of the Adelphi and its neighbourhood . heims, crossed the Channel in order to treatabout a marriage with the Lady Mary, daughter ofthe Duke of York, with the Dauphin. In someribald verses by the libellous Anthony Wood (or,as he dubbed himself, Anthony a Wood, 1632-1695)we read that: The Bishop who from France came slowly oerDid go to Betty Beaulies — this Betty being a person of notorious characterwho lived in Durham Yard. Dryden, in his 1667comedy, Sir Martin Marrall, makes Lady Duperefer to Durham Yard as the customary landing-place for Covent Garden. And The Tatler of
. The literary history of the Adelphi and its neighbourhood . heims, crossed the Channel in order to treatabout a marriage with the Lady Mary, daughter ofthe Duke of York, with the Dauphin. In someribald verses by the libellous Anthony Wood (or,as he dubbed himself, Anthony a Wood, 1632-1695)we read that: The Bishop who from France came slowly oerDid go to Betty Beaulies — this Betty being a person of notorious characterwho lived in Durham Yard. Dryden, in his 1667comedy, Sir Martin Marrall, makes Lady Duperefer to Durham Yard as the customary landing-place for Covent Garden. And The Tatler ofJune 7, 1709, alludes to a certain lady who lefther coach at the New Exchange door in the Strand,and whipt down Durham Yard into a boat with ayoung gentleman for Fox Hall. Durham Yard was the first residence in London(1675) of Godfrey Kneller. David Garrick andSamuel Johnson are closely connected with theplace. It was here that the volatile Garrick, at theage of twenty-three, was in partnership with his brother, Peter, as a wine-merchant. I do not think40. THE SOCIETY OF ARTS, JOHN STREET, ADELPHI. [ / oface p. 40. VOLTAIRE that he lived here, but, certainly, the brothers hadtheir wine vaults in Durham Yard. But the uniondid not last long. Peter was calm, sedate, andmethodical; David was gay, volatile, and impetuous,and, perhaps, not so confined to regularity as hispartner could have wished. Therefore, as Garricksbiographer, Thomas Davies, puts it, to preventthe continuance of fruitless and daily altercation,friends intervened, and the partnership was dissolvedamicably. Another most interesting memory ofDurham Yard is associated with Garricks friend,Samuel Johnson, who, at the time of the winepartnership, was living (March, 1741) at the BlackBoy over against Durham Yard —this is not to beconfused with Johnsons garret, which was inExeter Street, Strand. Samuel Foote, in his ill-natured way, used to say that he remembered Davy in Durham Yard with three quarts ofvinegar in the
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