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Title: Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Thornbury, Walter, 1828-1876
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Publisher: London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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pears to have been built at a veryearly period. Here, for several years, lived Dr.Atterbury, afterwards Bishop of Rochester, whosecommittal to the Tower on suspicion of being con-cerned in a plot in favour of the Pretender was oneof the principal events at the commencement of thelast century. It was whilst living here that Dr.Atterbury became acquainted with Dean Swift, who,in 1711, took up his residence opposite the doctorshouse. Previous to becoming a resident at Chelsea, 9° OLD AND NEW LONDON. (Chelsea. Swift was a frequenter of its rural scenes. HeAvrites, in May, 17ii :—I leave my best gown andperiwig at Mrs. Van Homrighs (in Suffolk Street),*then walk up Pall Mall, out at Buckingham House,and so to Chelsea, a little beyond the church. I The old White Horse inn, in this street,which was burnt down some years since—a new onebeing substituted for it—was a very ancient struc-ture, built in the Tudor style of architecture. Theliouse was rich in ancient panelling, together with
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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

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