Poultry was not worth its weight in silver then. The chief points of interest in the street past and present are the Compter Prison, Grocers' Hall, Old Jewry, and several shops with memorable associations. Sir Martin Bowes we have already mentioned in our chapter on the Goldsmiths' Company. The name of one of our greatest English wits is indissolubly connected with the neighbourhood of the Poultry. It falls like a cracker, with merry bang and sparkle, among the graver histories with which this great street is associated.
Tom Hood was the son of a Scotch bookseller in the Poultry. The firm was "Vernor and Hood. Hood," says Mrs. Broderip, "was one of the 'Associated Booksellers,' who selected valuable old books for reprinting, with great success.
Vernor and Hood, when they moved to 31, Poultry, took into partnership Mr. The firm of Messrs. After the sudden death of the father, the widow and her children were left rather slenderly provided for.
He was articled to his uncle, Mr. Sands, and subsequently was transferred to one of the Le Keux. He was a most devoted and excellent son to his mother, and the last days of her widowhood and decline were soothed by his tender care and affection. An opening that offered more congenial employment presented itself at last, when he was about the age of twenty-one. By the death of Mr. John Scott, the editor of the 'London Magazine,' who was killed in a duel, that periodical passed into other hands, and became the property of my father's friends, Messrs.
Taylor and Hessey. The new proprietors soon sent for him, and he became a sort of sub-editor to the magazine. The "King's Head" Tavern No. It is said that the landlord's wife happened to be on the point of labour on the day of the king's entry into London.
She was extremely anxious to see the returning monarch, and the king, being told of her inclination, drew up at the door of the tavern in his good-natured way, and saluted her. The King's Head Tavern, which stood at the western extremity of the Stocks' Market, was not at first known by the sign of the "King's Head," but the "Rose.
Ned Ward, that coarse observer, in the "London Spy," , describes the "Rose," anciently the "Rose and Crown," as famous for good wine. The tavern door was flanked by two columns twisted with vines carved in wood, which supported a small square gallery over the portico, surrounded by handsome ironwork.
On the front of this gallery was erected the sign. It consisted of a central compartment containing the Rose, behind which the artist had introduced a tall silver cup, called "a standing bowl," with drinking glasses. Beneath the painting was this inscription:—. This Taverne's like its sign—a lustie Rose, A sight of joy that sweetness doth enclose; The daintie Flow're well pictur'd here is seene, But for its rarest sweets—come, searche within! About the time that King altered his sign we find the authorities of St.
Peter-upon-Cornhill determining "That the King's Arms, in painted glass, should be refreshed, and forthwith be set up in one of their church windows by the churchwarden at the parish charges; with whatsoever he giveth to the glazier as a gratuity.
The sign appears to have been a costly work, since there was the fragment of a leaf of an old accountbook found when the ruins of the house were cleared after the Great Fire, on which were written these entries:—"P d. He was one of the many excellent artists of the period, who, as Walpole contemptuously says, "painted still life, oranges and lemons, plate, damask curtains, cloth of gold, and that medley of familiar objects that strike the ignorant vulgar.
This flow're is now full-blowne! The tavern was rebuilt after the Great Fire, and flourished many years. The tavern was also noted for large dinners of the City Companies and other public bodies. The house was refitted in , but has since been pulled down. Another noted Poultry Tavern was the "Three Cranes," destroyed in the Great Fire, but rebuilt and noticed in , in one of the many paper controversies of that day.
The conversation was of excellent quality, and Boswell devotes many pages to it. They discussed the emigration and nidification of birds, on which subjects Goldsmith seems to have been deeply interested; the bread-fruit of Otaheite, which Johnson, who had never tasted it, considered surpassed by a slice of the loaf before him; toleration, and the early martyrs.
On this last subject, Dr. Mayo, "the literary anvil," as he was called, because he bore Johnson's hardest blows without flinching, held out boldly for unlimited toleration; Johnson for Baxter's principle of only "tolerating all things that are tolerable," which is no toleration at all. Goldsmith, unable to get a word in, and overpowered by the voice of the great Polyphemus, grew at last vexed, and said petulantly to Johnson, who he thought had interrupted poor Toplady, "Sir, the gentleman has heard you patiently for an hour; pray allow us now to hear him.
Sir, you are impertinent. Johnson, Boswell, and Langton presently adjourned to the club, where they found Burke, Garrick, and Goldsmith, the latter still brooding over his sharp reprimand at Dilly's. Johnson, magnanimous as a lion, at once said aside to Boswell, "I'll make Goldsmith forgive me. Goldsmith, something passed to-day where you and I dined; I ask your pardon.
Goldsmith, touched with this, replied, "It must be much from you, sir, that I take ill"—became himself, "and rattled away as usual. Langton had observed that the poet was not like Addison, who, content with his fame as a writer, did not attempt a share in conversation; to which Boswell added, that Goldsmith had a great deal of gold in his cabinet, but, not content with that, was always pulling out his purse.
In we find Boswell skilfully decoying his great idol to dinner at the Dillys to meet the notorious "Jack Wilkes. A little coaxing, however, soon won him over; Johnson roared out, "Frank, a clean shirt!
On discovering "a certain gentleman in lace," and he Wilkes the demagogue, Johnson was at first somewhat disconcerted, but soon recovered himself, and behaved like a man of the world. Wilkes quickly won the great man. They soon set to work discussing Foote's wit, and Johnson confessed that, though resolved not to be pleased, he had once at a dinner-party been obliged to lay down his knife and fork, throw himself back in his chair, and fairly laugh it out— "The dog was so comical, sir: he was irresistible.
Wilkes placed himself next to Dr. Johnson, and behaved to him with so much attention and politeness, that he gained upon him insensibly. No man ate more heartily than Johnson, or loved better what was nice and delicate. Wilkes was very assiduous in helping him to some fine veal. But the most memorable evening recorded at Dilly's was April 15, , when Johnson and Boswell dined there, and met Miss Seward, the Lichfield poetess, and Mrs. Knowles, a clever Quaker lady, who for once overcame the giant of Bolt Court in argument.
Before dinner Johnson took up a book, and read it ravenously. Knowles to Boswell, "than any one. He gets at the substance of a book directly. He tears out the heart of it. They then fell to talking of a ghost that had appeared at Newcastle, and had recommended some person to apply to an attorney.
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