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Article EARLY HAUNTS OF FREEMASONRY. ← Page 3 of 5 →
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Early Haunts Of Freemasonry.
Chronicles ; " William Griffith , of the Falcon , who in 1565 issued " Gordobuc , " the first English tragedy and the first play " ever written in English blank verse ; William Smethwicke , publisher of "Hamlet " and "Romeo and Juliet ; " Richard Marriott , publisher of Izaak Walton ' s " Compleat Angler" and Butler ' s "Hudibras ; " and Matthew
Walker , one of the three timid printers to whom the world is indebted for the publication of " Paradise Lost . " At the Devil , opposite , " rare Ben Jonson " and his jovial associates held many a carouse ; while the Cock , a few doors further on the same side , was a favourite resort of that dear old gossip , Pepys , whose frequent visits with the pretty
play-actress , Mistress Kniggs , brought him many a Caudle lecture from Mrs . Pepys . Later occur the names of the rival booksellers , Jacob Tonson and Bernhard Lintot , the latter of whom published Pope ' s " Homer , " paying for it considerably over £ 5000 ; while the former was
publisher of Dryden ' s works . Nor must we pass over Pope and Warburton , Swift , Steele , Addison , and , in the era of the second and third Georges , Johnson and Goldsmith , Hogarth , Boswell , and other contemporary worthies . It needs no effort of our imagination to picture to ourselves the authors of " Rasselas " and " The Vicar of Wakefield" strolling arm-in-arm together by Temple Bar , the latter archly pointing to the heads of the Jacobite rebels , and exclaiming
" Forsitan et nostrum nomen miscebitur istis ;" Johnson having previously made the same quotation when pointing to the epitaphs in Poets' Corner , Westminster Abbey . In short , the man who walks along Fleet Street without conjuring up some of its
past history and historical worthies must be void of all sense and feeling . That much of its reputation as a home of literature still remains must be apparent to every passer by . Authors no longer dwell in its houses , nor in those of its many spacious tributaries ; yet it is largely
occupied by newspaper offices , with a fair sprinkling of publishers and booksellers . In it also remain most of the banking firms which are associated with its history , and as in 1677 , so in 1882 , Child ' sthough , if its founder could revisit this mundane sphere , he would be sorely puzzled to discover in the palatial building of to-day the
dingy house in which he amassed a fortune—may still be described as a house where " running cashes " are kept . Moreover , it can boast of many an hostelry of fair z'epute . Anderton ' s , of which mention has already been made , is of comparatively modern origin . So , likewise , is the Mitre , though occupying the site of a much older tavern distinguished by the same sign . The Devil has long since been swallowed E 2
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Early Haunts Of Freemasonry.
Chronicles ; " William Griffith , of the Falcon , who in 1565 issued " Gordobuc , " the first English tragedy and the first play " ever written in English blank verse ; William Smethwicke , publisher of "Hamlet " and "Romeo and Juliet ; " Richard Marriott , publisher of Izaak Walton ' s " Compleat Angler" and Butler ' s "Hudibras ; " and Matthew
Walker , one of the three timid printers to whom the world is indebted for the publication of " Paradise Lost . " At the Devil , opposite , " rare Ben Jonson " and his jovial associates held many a carouse ; while the Cock , a few doors further on the same side , was a favourite resort of that dear old gossip , Pepys , whose frequent visits with the pretty
play-actress , Mistress Kniggs , brought him many a Caudle lecture from Mrs . Pepys . Later occur the names of the rival booksellers , Jacob Tonson and Bernhard Lintot , the latter of whom published Pope ' s " Homer , " paying for it considerably over £ 5000 ; while the former was
publisher of Dryden ' s works . Nor must we pass over Pope and Warburton , Swift , Steele , Addison , and , in the era of the second and third Georges , Johnson and Goldsmith , Hogarth , Boswell , and other contemporary worthies . It needs no effort of our imagination to picture to ourselves the authors of " Rasselas " and " The Vicar of Wakefield" strolling arm-in-arm together by Temple Bar , the latter archly pointing to the heads of the Jacobite rebels , and exclaiming
" Forsitan et nostrum nomen miscebitur istis ;" Johnson having previously made the same quotation when pointing to the epitaphs in Poets' Corner , Westminster Abbey . In short , the man who walks along Fleet Street without conjuring up some of its
past history and historical worthies must be void of all sense and feeling . That much of its reputation as a home of literature still remains must be apparent to every passer by . Authors no longer dwell in its houses , nor in those of its many spacious tributaries ; yet it is largely
occupied by newspaper offices , with a fair sprinkling of publishers and booksellers . In it also remain most of the banking firms which are associated with its history , and as in 1677 , so in 1882 , Child ' sthough , if its founder could revisit this mundane sphere , he would be sorely puzzled to discover in the palatial building of to-day the
dingy house in which he amassed a fortune—may still be described as a house where " running cashes " are kept . Moreover , it can boast of many an hostelry of fair z'epute . Anderton ' s , of which mention has already been made , is of comparatively modern origin . So , likewise , is the Mitre , though occupying the site of a much older tavern distinguished by the same sign . The Devil has long since been swallowed E 2