Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places . CUhLbKA CHURCH, lS6o. set out about sunset, and get there in somethingless than an hour ; it is two good miles, and just5,748 steps. Shadwell, the poet laureate of the seventeenthcentury, was another inhabitant of Church Streetor Church Lane. He lived in a house which hadbeen previously occupied by Dr. Arbuthnot. See Vol. IV., p. 227. grotesque ornaments and carving, in the form ofbrackets. In the principal room, which was large,and consequently well adapted for such a purpose,the old Parocliial Guardian Society most
Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places . CUhLbKA CHURCH, lS6o. set out about sunset, and get there in somethingless than an hour ; it is two good miles, and just5,748 steps. Shadwell, the poet laureate of the seventeenthcentury, was another inhabitant of Church Streetor Church Lane. He lived in a house which hadbeen previously occupied by Dr. Arbuthnot. See Vol. IV., p. 227. grotesque ornaments and carving, in the form ofbrackets. In the principal room, which was large,and consequently well adapted for such a purpose,the old Parocliial Guardian Society mostly heldits meetings. Another remarkable old inn in the same streetwas the Black Lion, which was situated oppo-site the rectory garden wall, and was pulled downa few years ago to make room for the present Chelsea.] FAMOUS INNS OF FORMER TIMES. 91. I. The Clock House. OLD CHELSEA IN The Moravian Chaoel, 3. The White Horse Inn^ OLD AND NEW LONDON. [Chelsea. tavern, which still retains the name. It is supposedthat the old tavern was in its full glory during thereign of Charles II.; for, in an old house situatedat the corner of Danvers Street, coeval with it, wasan old pump, which the present proprietor, whohas resided there for sixty years, recently pulleddown. It bore the date of 1697 on a leaden panelof the pump. The old tea-gardens was, no doubt,the resort of the many fashionable families whichlived in the neighbourhood; and attached to it wasan extensive bowling-green for those who enjoyedthat fashionable game. At the bottom of Church Lane, close by the oldchurch in Lombard Street, lived, during the lasttwelve years of his life, i\Ir. Henry Sampson Wood-fall; whose name was brought prominently beforethe public as the printer of the celebrated Lettersof Junius. He used jocularly to say to hisChelsea friends that he had
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