Battle Bridge--King's Cross--The Dust-heaps--St. Chad's Well--St. Chad's Well-water 39
Medicinal Waters--Spas--The White Conduit--White Conduit House--White Conduit Gardens 53
Sadler's Discovery--Miles's Musick House--A Man Eats a Live Cock, &c.--Forcer, the Proprietor--Macklin on Sadler's Wells--Actors at Sadler's Wells--The Pindar of Wakefield 67
"Black Mary's Hole"--Its Disappearance--Bagnigge Wells--Nell Gwyn's Houses--Bagnigge House 77
Bagnigge Wells--The Organist--Different Proprietors--"Punch" on Bagnigge Wells--Decadence of the Wells 87
The "Cold Bath"--Cold Baths--Sir John Oldcastle--Archery--Tea Gardens--Small Pox Hospital--The Pantheon--Lady Huntingdon's Chapel--Lady Huntingdon 111
The Spencean System--Orator Hunt--Riot in the City--Riots--End of the Riots 127
Fighting--Hockley-in-the-Hole--Bear Baiting--Bear Gardens--Bull Baiting--Sword Play 137
Mount Pleasant--Saffron Hill--Old House in West Street--Fagin--Field Lane--Thieves 153
Bleeding Hart Yard--Ely Place--John of Gaunt--Ely Chapel--Turnmill Brook--The Fleet--Holborn Bridge 163
Lamb's Conduit--Clerkenwell--Fleet Market--Rye-House Plot--Fleet Bridge 179
Alderman Waithman--John Wilkes--Ludgate Prison--Sir Stephen Foster 193
Bridewell--Montfichet Castle--Fuller on Bridewell--Ward on Bridewell--Howard on Bridewell--Bridewell Prison-- The City and Apprentices--Mother Cresswell--Bridewell Court Room 205
Alsatia--Whitefriars--Deaths in the Fleet--Ben Jonson and the Fleet 223
History of the Fleet Prison--Female Wardens--Settlement of Fees--Liberty of Prisoners--Filthy State of the Fleet--A Quarrelsome Knight--Preference for the Fleet Prison--Sir John Falstaff--Cardinal Wolsey 229
Prisoners--Puritans--Bibliography of Fleet Prison--A Warden's Troubles 243
The Warden of the Fleet--Purchase of Wardenship--Bad Discipline--Boundaries of the Fleet--Preference for the Fleet 255
Complaints of the Warden--The Warden keeps Corpses--Huggins and Bambridge--Castell--The First Prisoner in Irons--Acquittal of Huggins and Bambridge--Bambridge and his Prisoners--Chapel in the Fleet Bagging 265
Admission to the Fleet Prison--The _Humours_ of the Fleet 279
Garnish--The "Common Side"--Howard's Report--Regulations of the Prison--Gordon Riots--Burning of the Fleet Prison--Fleet Prison Rebuilt--The "Bare"--Racket Masters--A Whistling Shop--A Mock Election "_Dum Vivimus, Vivamus_"--Number of Prisoners--Destitution 293