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Early Haunts Of Freemasonry.
there he married a sister of Bishop Kerr . In Charles II . ' s time No . 197 was a tombstone cutter ' s . It afterwards became Rackstz-a w ' s Museum of Natural Curiosities and Anatomical Figures , and was adorned with the head of Sir Isaac Newton as a sign over the
doorway . On Rackstraw ' s death , Donovan succeeded with his London Museum , after which it became the office of the Albion Insurance Company , in which Charles Lamb was a writer . We have already said that the site of No . 193 was occupied by the house of Sir John Oldcastle , the Baron Cobham , who was burned to death for heresy in early part of the Fifteenth century . On the same site the Green Ribbon Club
met in the reign of Charles II ., but the house then standing was pulled down for improvements in 1799 . No . 192 stands on the site of the house once occupied by a grocez-, the father of the poet Cowley ; and here , in 1740 , thei ^ e lived another grocer , who retailed his teas at the following prices : caper tea at 24 s . ; fine green at 18 s . ; hyson at 16 s . ;
and bohea at 7 s . per lb . ! Those who drink freely of the cup " which cheers , but not inebriates" may congratulate themselves that the teas of to-day are not quite so costly as they were then . Praed ' s Bank at 189 , and No . 183 , where William Cobbet lived , will serve to carry us far enough east for the present .
Retracing our steps to where till lately stood Temple Bar , and crossing to the south side , we note in passing Dick ' s ( No . 8 ) , once frequented by young Templaz's , and where in 1796 was founded the St . Dunstan ' s Club ; the Rainbow , at No . 15 , in the first instance a coffee house—the second of its kind established in London , by a
Mr . Farr , barber , in 1656 . At No . 16 lived , as before mentioned , Bernhard Lintot , the publisher of Pope ' s Homer : his rival , Tonson , Dryden ' s publisher , had his quarters at the Judge ' s Head , near Inner Temple-lane . Gosling ' s Bank , at No . 19 , was founded in 1650 by Henry Pinckney , a goldsmith , whose sign was that of the Three Squirrels . Here again , it is satisfactory to note that the original sign , in solid silver , is still preserved , having been discovered l ying in the
midst of a quantity of old rubbish in 1858 . What is now No . 27 was , in the davs of James I , a celebrated tavern named the Hercules Pillars and was well-known to Pepys ; while No . 32 was occupied as a bookseller ' s for forty years by William Sandby , a partner in Snow ' s bank , in the Strand , who , in 1762 , sold it for £ 400 to William
Mc Murray , a lieutenant in the . Royal Navy , who , shortly afterwards , dropped the "Mc" out of his name , and settled himself down into simple "William Murray , " becoming afterwards the great Tory publisher . In 1812 the business was removed to Albemarle-street , where it still flourishes as ever . No . 37 , Hoare ' s Bank , distinguished formerly as the Golden Bottle , was moved from Cheapside to these
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Early Haunts Of Freemasonry.
there he married a sister of Bishop Kerr . In Charles II . ' s time No . 197 was a tombstone cutter ' s . It afterwards became Rackstz-a w ' s Museum of Natural Curiosities and Anatomical Figures , and was adorned with the head of Sir Isaac Newton as a sign over the
doorway . On Rackstraw ' s death , Donovan succeeded with his London Museum , after which it became the office of the Albion Insurance Company , in which Charles Lamb was a writer . We have already said that the site of No . 193 was occupied by the house of Sir John Oldcastle , the Baron Cobham , who was burned to death for heresy in early part of the Fifteenth century . On the same site the Green Ribbon Club
met in the reign of Charles II ., but the house then standing was pulled down for improvements in 1799 . No . 192 stands on the site of the house once occupied by a grocez-, the father of the poet Cowley ; and here , in 1740 , thei ^ e lived another grocer , who retailed his teas at the following prices : caper tea at 24 s . ; fine green at 18 s . ; hyson at 16 s . ;
and bohea at 7 s . per lb . ! Those who drink freely of the cup " which cheers , but not inebriates" may congratulate themselves that the teas of to-day are not quite so costly as they were then . Praed ' s Bank at 189 , and No . 183 , where William Cobbet lived , will serve to carry us far enough east for the present .
Retracing our steps to where till lately stood Temple Bar , and crossing to the south side , we note in passing Dick ' s ( No . 8 ) , once frequented by young Templaz's , and where in 1796 was founded the St . Dunstan ' s Club ; the Rainbow , at No . 15 , in the first instance a coffee house—the second of its kind established in London , by a
Mr . Farr , barber , in 1656 . At No . 16 lived , as before mentioned , Bernhard Lintot , the publisher of Pope ' s Homer : his rival , Tonson , Dryden ' s publisher , had his quarters at the Judge ' s Head , near Inner Temple-lane . Gosling ' s Bank , at No . 19 , was founded in 1650 by Henry Pinckney , a goldsmith , whose sign was that of the Three Squirrels . Here again , it is satisfactory to note that the original sign , in solid silver , is still preserved , having been discovered l ying in the
midst of a quantity of old rubbish in 1858 . What is now No . 27 was , in the davs of James I , a celebrated tavern named the Hercules Pillars and was well-known to Pepys ; while No . 32 was occupied as a bookseller ' s for forty years by William Sandby , a partner in Snow ' s bank , in the Strand , who , in 1762 , sold it for £ 400 to William
Mc Murray , a lieutenant in the . Royal Navy , who , shortly afterwards , dropped the "Mc" out of his name , and settled himself down into simple "William Murray , " becoming afterwards the great Tory publisher . In 1812 the business was removed to Albemarle-street , where it still flourishes as ever . No . 37 , Hoare ' s Bank , distinguished formerly as the Golden Bottle , was moved from Cheapside to these