128; pavement, the new, v. 84, n. 3; Pekin, compared with, v. 305; population not increased, iv. 209; preferable to all other places, iii. 363, 378; press-gangs not suffered to enter the city in Sawbridge's Mayoralty, iii. 460; Recorder's report to the King of sentences of death, iii. 121, n. 1; relations in London, ii. 177; Reynolds's love of it, iii. 178, n. 1; riots in 1768. ii. 60, n. 2; iii. 46, n. 5; shoe-blacks, ii. 326; iii. 262; shopkeeper compared with a savage, v. 81, 83; slaughter-houses, v. 247; society, compared with Paris, iii. 253; strikes, iii. 46, n. 5; theatre, proposal for a third, iv. 113; tires of it, no man, iii. 178; Boswell will tire of it, iii. 353; too large, ii. 356; Trained Bands, iv. 319; universality, ii. 133; wall, taking the, i. 110; v. 230; wits, ii. 466; wheat, price of, in 1778, iii. 226, n. 2.

II. Localities.

LONDON, Aldersgate Street, Milton's School, ii. 407, n. 5; Anchor Brewhouse, i. 491, n. 1; Argyll Street, Johnson's room in Mrs. Thrale's house, iii. 405, n. 6; iv. 157, 164; Bank of England, Jack Wilkes defends it against the rioters, iii. 430; Barking Creek, iii. 268, n. 4; Barnard's Inn, No. 6, Oliver Edward's chambers, iii. 303; Batson's coffee-house, frequented by physicians, iii. 355, n. 2; Baxter's (afterwards Thomas's), Dover Street, Literary Club met there, i. 479, n. 2; v. 109, n. 5; Bedford Coffee-house, Garrick attacks Dodsley's Cleone, i. 325, n. 3; Bedford Street, 'old' Mr. Sheridan's house, i. 485, n. 1; Billingsgate, Johnson, Beauclerk and Langton row to it, i. 251; Johnson and Boswell take oars for Greenwich, i. 458; Johnson lands there, iv. 233, n. 2; Black Boy, Strand, Johnson dates a letter from it, iii. 405, n. 6; Blackfriars, Boswell and Johnson cross in a boat to it, ii. 432; Blackfriars bridge, Johnson's letter about the design for it, i. 351; Blenheim Tavern, Bond Street, meeting place of the Eumelian Club, iv. 394, n. 4; Boar's Head, Eastcheap, a Shakesperian Club, v. 247; Bolt Court, Boswell takes his last leave of Johnson at the entry, iv. 338; Johnson's last house, ii. 427; iii. 405, n. 6; garden, ii. 427, n. 1; burnt down, ib.; described in Pennant's London, iii. 275; Oxford post-coach takes up Boswell and Johnson there, iv. 283; Bond Street, i. 174, n. 2; iv. 387, n. 1; Bow Church, confirmation of Bishop Hampden's election, iv. 323, n. 3; Bow Street, Johnson resides there, iii. 405, n. 6; Sir John Fielding's office, i. 423; Bridewell Churchyard, Levett buried there, iv. 137; British Coffee House, Boswell and Johnson dine there, ii. 195; club, account of a, iv. 179, n. 1; Guthrie and Captain Cheap, i. 117, n. 2; Buckingham House, ii. 33, n. 3; Butcher Row, account of it, i. 400, n. 2; Boswell and Johnson dine there, i. 400; meet Edwards there, iii. 302; Button's Coffee-house, Addison frequented it, iv. 91, n. 1; Dryden said to have had his winter and summer chairs there, iii. 71, n. 5; Carlisle House, iv. 92, n. 5; Castle Street, Cavendish Square, Johnson lodged there, i. 111, 135, n. 1; iii. 405, n. 6; visited the Miss Cotterells, i. 244; Catherine Street, Strand, Johnson describes a tavern, v. 230; lodged near it, i. 103; iii. 405, n. 6; Charing Cross, full tide of human existence, ii. 337; iii. 450; Charing Cross to Whitechapel, the greatest series of shops in the world, ii. 218; Clerkenwell, an alehouse where Johnson met Mr. Browne, i. 113, n. 1; Clerkenwell Bridewell, broken open in the Gordon Riots, iii. 429; described in Humphry Clinker, ii. 123, n. 2; Clifford's Inn, Lysons lived there, iv. 402, n. 2; Clifton's eatinghouse, i. 400; Clubs: See under CLUBS; Coachmaker's Hall, Boswell attends a religious Robinhood Society, iv. 93, 95; Compters, The, iii. 432; Conduit Street, Boswell lodges there, ii. 166; Cornhill, iv. 233, n. 2; Covent Garden, election mob, iv. 279, n. 2; Hummums, iii. 349, n. 1; Johnson helps the fruiterers, i. 250; Piazzas infested by robbers, i. 163, n. 2; Covent Garden Theatre, Douglas, v. 362, n. 1; Johnson at an oratorio, ii. 324, n. 3; his prologue to Kelly's comedy, iii. 114; Maddocks the straw-man, iii. 231; She Stoops to Conquer in rehearsal, ii. 208; Sir Thomas Overbury, iii. 115, n. 2; time of sickness, ii. 410, n. 2; Crown and Anchor Tavern, Strand, Boswell's supper party, ii. 63, 186; iii. 41; Boswell and Johnson dine there, ii. 192; Cuper's Gardens, v. 295; Curzon Street, Lord Marchmont's house, iii. 392; Doctors' Commons, i. 462, n. 1; Dover Street, Literary Club met at Baxter's and Le Telier's, i. 479; Downing Street, Boswell's lodgings, i. 422; Lord North's residence, ii. 331; Drury Lane Theatre, Abington's, Mrs., benefit, ii. 324; Beggar's Opera refused, iii. 321, n. 3; Boswell lows like a cow, v.

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