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Londina Illustrata. Graphic and Historical Memorials of Monasteries, Churches, Chapels, Schools, Charitable Foundations, Palaces, Halls, Courts, Processions, Places of Early Amusement, and Modern Present Theatres, in the Cities and Suburbs of London and Westminster, Volume 2

Wilkinson, Robert

1819-1825

Checks and Tickets of Admission to the public Theatres and other Places of Amusement.

No. . . This Theatre flourished from about the middle of the reign of Queen Elizabeth until some time after the Restoration, and its history forms part of our present work. copper Checks are known —the , engraved, for the "Upper Gallery," and another, similar, for "The Pit."

No. , , , , . . The Checks engraved as used at this Theatre, are all of copper, and of different dates. No. . Obverse the head of Charles II. No. , has the bust of James II., and Maria D'Este his Queen, both looking the same way. The others are modern, having the reverse blank.

No. , . . The Checks of this Theatre, on opening, had a capital D, and the same character reversed with a Y central, surmounted with a ducal coronet, as acting under the patronage of His Royal Highness the Duke of York. No. , struck after the accession of the Duke to the throne, when the Queen became the patroness. The Checks are of yellow metal, and similar ones known for the " Gallerie," and "Vpper Gallerie."

No. . . This Check is of brass, and having the head of King William in basrelief, supposed to have been struck as a compliment on the license being granted for the opening of this Theatre, under the management of Mr. Betterton.

No. . . The particular value of this Check, which is of copper, is from the obverse supplying a representation of the front of the Theatre when opened by Mr. Gifford in .

No. , , , , . . No. and are of copper; and of brass; and of pewter. No. has the profile in bas-relief of the Duke of Cumberland, from a die engraved by the celebrated artist Pingo, and probably struck immediately after the suppression of the rebellion of . No. remarkable for a fine head of King George II. done by Kirk.

No. . . A copper Check used on Mr. Colman becoming proprietor of that Theatre.

No. . . Plated on copper, and used during the period the Italian Opera was conducted there, under the management of Mr. O'Reilly.

No. . . Taken from a proof impression in copper of the original die, the whole being in bas-relief, and struck for the use of the Theatre, when rebuilt after the fire in .

No. . . A brass Check, supposed to have been used at some place of diversion where bears were exhibited under the proprietorship of N. Philipps.

No. . . A subscription ticket of mixed metal, having the reverse plain, and the obverse in bas-relief, for the admission of to this once popular place of amusement. The price of a ticket, for the season, was guineas.

No. . . The initial letters S. T. it is conjectured, may be applied to the Swan Theatre. The original Check is of base copper cast in sand, or some porous stone, very rude in execution, and of sufficient age to support the present presumption.

No. . . The Grotto Gardens flourished for some years under the proprietorship of Mr. Finch, who appears to have been a free-mason, and obtained considerable support from the brothers of the craft. were situated partly in Winchester Park, or the Clink, and partly in the parish of St. George, [*] . It is supposed the late favourite actor Mr. Richard Suett sung in public here for some time. The Check very coarsely executed in brass.

No. . . A place of tea-table amusement at Brompton.

No. . . A Check of copper, having the reverse plain.

No. . . This Check also of copper.

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Ancient Crypt, called the Cellar of Guy Fawkes, plate 133	2	50
Ancient Crypt in Leadenhall Street, plate 132 ..........	2	48
Ancient Structure in Ship Yard, Temple Bar, plate 11...	1	23
Astley's Amphitheatre, plate 198 ..........................	2	184
Bear Gardens, plates 166 & 167.
Bedford House, Bloomsbury Square, plate 103 ............	1	169
Bermondsey, its Manor, Priory, and Abbey, plates 49 to 57 .......................................................	1	107
Blackwell Hall, plate 128 .....................................	2	38
Bridewell Chapel and Court Room, plates 148 & 149 ...	2	95
British Museum, plate 101 ....................................	1	165
Bull and Bear Baiting at Bank-side, plates 165 to 167	2	133
Bullen's (Anna) Autograph, during her Imprisonment in the Tower, plate 159 ..........................................	2	115
Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace, plate 65.
Chapel at Great Ilford, Essex, plate 66.
Charing Cross, plate 123.
Cheapside and Cornhill Conduits, plates 5 to 7 ............	1	9
Checks and Tickets of Admission to the Public Theatres and other places of Amusement, plate 206 ............	2	197
City of London Wall, plate 4 ..................................	1	7
Clarendon House, called also Albemarle House, plate 94	1	155
Clerkenwell, plate 163 ..........................................	2	131
Cobourg Theatre, plate 200 .....................................	2	187
Cold Harbour, plate 125 ........................................	2	31
Conduits in Cheapside and Cornhill, plates 5 to 7 .........	1	9
Copped Hall, or Vauxhall, Surrey, plate 90 & 91 .........	1	149
Court and Prison of the Marshalsea, plate 118 ............	2	19
Covent Garden Theatre, plates 182 to 184 ..................	2	155
Craven House, Drury Lane, plate 105 ........................	1	173
Crosby Hall, plates 74 to 82 ....................................	1	45
Cross at West Cheape, plates 119 to 122 ..................	2	21
Cuper's Gardens, plates 155 to 158 ...........................	2	105
Custom House, plate 117 ........................................	2	17
D'Avenant's Schools, Whitechapel Road, plate 142 ......	2	73
D'Avenant's, or Duke's Theatre, plate 177 ..................	2	145
Dorset Gardens Theatre, plates 176 & 177 ..................	2	147
Drury Lane Theatre, plates 178 to 181 .....................	2	151
Durham, Salisbury, and Worcester Houses, plate 98 ......	1	159
Elizabeth's (Queen) Free Grammar School, plate 140 & 141 ........................................................	2	67
Elsinge Spital, Sion College, and the Church of St. Alphage, London Wall, plates 15 to 18 ...............	1	33
Falcon Tavern, Bankside, plate 174.
Fawkeshall, Vauxhall, or Copped Hall, Surrey, plates 90 & 91 .....................................................	1	149
Finch's Grotto Gardens, plate 158 ...........................	2	111
Fire in Bishopsgate Street, Cornhill, and Leadenhall Street, plate 8 ................................................	1	13
Fire of London, 1666, plate 3 ..............................	1	3
Fortune Theatre, plate 173 ....................................	2	141
Frost Fair on the River Thames, plate 9 ..................	1	19
Furnival's Inn, plates 113 to 118 ...........................	2	15
Gerrard's Hall, plate 130 ....................................	2	41
Globe Theatre, plates 168 to 170
Guildhall Chapel, plates 63 & 64 ...........................	1	119
Guy Fawkes' Cellar, plate 133 ..............................	2	47
Haymarket Theatre, Old and New, plates 185 to 187, vol. 2	159, 161
Holland's League. Bankside, plates 153 & 154 .........	2	106
Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, plate 48 ...............	1	105
Hungerford Market, Old and New, plate 139 ............	2 59, 65
Inn of the Priors of Lewes in Sussex—Oratory, under the, plates 83 to 85 ....................................	1	150
Inns of Court .............................................	2	15
Inscriptions on the Coffin Plates of the Earl of Kilmar nock, Lord Balmerino, and Lord Lovat, plate 160 ...	2	117
Judde's (St. Andrew) Almshouses, plate 151 ............	2	99
King John's Palace, plate 93 .................................	1	153
King's Theatre, or Italian Opera House, Haymarket, plate 189 ..............................................	2	163
Knightsbridge Chapel, plate 69 ..............................	1	125
Lambe's Chapel and Alms-Houses, plate 70 ...............	1	127
Lazar Houses in and near London, Short Account of, plates 67 to 70 ........................................	1	121
Leadenhall, Manor, Chapel, and Skin Market of, plates 134 to 139 ...........................................	2	49
Leadenhall Street, ancient Crypt in ........................	2	45
Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre, plate 177 .....................	2	143
Liverpool Theatre, plate 205.
London, Howell's View of, plate 2 ........................	1	1
London House, Plan of, plate 102.
London Workhouse, &c. Bishopsgate Street, plate 146 & 147 ..............................................	2	93
Lumley (Viscountess) Almshouses, plate 152 .........	2	101
Lyceum Theatre, or English Opera, Strand, plate 203 .................................................	2	193
Marshalsea, Court and Prison of the, plate 118 ............	2	19
Meggs' Almshouses, Whitechapel Road, plate 144 ......	2	91
Merchant Taylors' Hall, plate 145.
Montague House, plate 101 ..................................	1	163
Monteagle House, plate 106 ..................................	1	175
Monument of London, plate 161 & 162.
Monument of Sir Andrew Judde, Knight, and Crypt of the Nunnery of St. Helen's, plates 27 to 30 .........	1	53
Northumberland House, as seen from the River (See Suffolk House), plate 96 ..............................	1	159
Office of the Sheriff of London, plate 110 ..................	2	5
Oldbourne Hall, Shoe Lane, plates 107 & 108 ............	1	179
Old Town Hall, St. Margaret's Hill, Southwark, plate 120 .........................................................	2	39
Olympic Theatre, plate 194.
Oratory under the Antient Mansion, or Inn, of the Priors of Lewes in Sussex, plate 83 ...........................	1	139
Pantheon Theatre, Oxford Street, plate 196 ...............	2	177
Paul's Cross, and preaching there, plate 14 ...............	1	31
Peterborough House, afterward Grosvenor House, plate 104 .........................................................	1	171
Pie-Powder, otherwise Pied-Poudre Court, plate 109 ...	2	1
Pindar's, (Sir Paul), House, Bishopsgate Street Without, plates 99 & 100 ..........................................	1	161
Priory of the Holy Trinity in the Ward of Aldgate, plates 58 to 60 .............................................	1	111
Queen Elizabeth's Free Grammar School, plates 140 & 141 .........................................................	2	67
Queen's Treasury, Scotland Yard, plates 124...............	2	29
Red Bull Playhouse, Clerkenwell, plate 172 ...............	2	137
Regency Theatre, Tottenham Street, Tottenham Court Road, plate 199 ..........................................	2	185
Royal Circus, or Surrey Theatre, plate 202 ...............	2	191
Royal Exchange, plates 111 & 112 ........................	2	13
Royalty Theatre, Wellclose Square, plate 192 ............	2	169
Ruins discovered in 1821, at the corner of Whitcomb Street, formerly called Hedge Lane, plate 138 ......	2	57
Sadler's Wells Theatre, plate 195 ..........................	2	176
St. Alphage, London Wall—Church of. Plates 15 to 18	1	33
St. Bartholomew the Great, Church of, plates 19 to 22	1	39
St. Bartholomew the Less, Church of, plate 23 .........	1	43
St. Helens, Crypt of the Nunnery of, plates 27 to 30.
St. Helens, Priory and Church of, plates 24 to 26 ......	1	47
St. James's Palace, plate 89 ...............................	1	147
St. James's Palace, Chapel Royal, plate 65.
St. John's House, Hoxton, plate 150 ..........................	2	197
St. Martin's-le-Grand College, and St. Vedast, Foster Lane, plates 61 & 62 .................................	1	117
St. Michael's, Aldgate, Church of, plate 131 ...............	2	43
St. Michael's Church, Cornhill, plate 31 ..................	1	57
St. Paul's Cathedral and Cross, plates 12 & 13 ............	1	25, 27
St. Paul's School, St. Paul's Church Yard, plate 143 ...	2	75
St. Paul's, Shadwell, Church of, plates 32 to 36 .........	1	61
St. Peter's upon Cornhill, Church of, plates 37 to 40 ...	1	69
St. Saviour's Church, Southwark, Chapels at the Eastern end of, plates 41 to 47 ........................... vol. 1	95 to 101
St. Saviour's Free Grammar School, Southwark, plate 141 .........................................................	2	69
Salter's Hall Meeting House, plates 126 & 127 ............	2	34
Sans Pareil Theatre, plate 197 ..............................	2	182
Sheriff of London's Office, plate 110 ........................	2	5
Ship-Yard, Temple Bar, Antient Structure in, plate 11	1	23
Sion College ..................................................	1	37
Skelton's Meeting-House, plate 71 ............................	1	135
Somerset House, plate 95 .................................	1	157
Strand, Part of the, and St. Clement's Danes, plate 10	1	21
Strand Theatre, the Sans Pareil, plate 197 ...............	2	181
Suffolk (Northumberland House), as seen from the River Thames, plate 96 ........................................	1	15
Swan Theatre, plate 171.
Temple Bar, Antient Structure in Ship Yard, plate 11 ...	1	23
Tennis Court Theatre, Bear Yard, plate 193 ...............	2	171
Theatre of London, Engraved Title, vol. 2.
Theatres Ancient, Remarks on, ..................... vol. 2	129 to 194
Astley's, plate 198—Coburg, 200—Covent Garden, 182 to 184—D'Avenant's, 177—Dorset Gardens, 176, 177—Drury Lane, 178 to 181—Fortune, 173 —Haymarket, 185 to 187—King's, or Italian Opera House, 188, 189—Lincoln's Inn Fields, 175— Liverpool, 205—Lyceum, or English Opera House, 203—Pantheon, 196—Red Bull, 172—Regency, 199—Royal Circus, or Surrey, 202—Royalty, 192— Sadler's Wells, 195—Strand, or Sans Pareil, 197 —Tennis Court, 193—Theatre in Goodman's Fields, 190 & 191—Theatre in Tankard Street, Ipswich, 204.
Toten-ham Manor-House, Tottenham Court Road, plates 92 & 93 ..................................................	1	151
Vauxhall, or Copped Hall, Surrey, plate 90 & 91 ......	1	150
Whitehall, plates 86 to 88, vol. 1 .....................	143, 145
Winchester Palace, Southwark, plate 47 ...............	1	69
York House, Villiers, or Buckingham Street, Strand, plate 97 ..................................................	1	159
Zoar Street, Gravel Lane, Meeting House and School, plates 72 & 73 ........................................	1	131

Footnotes:

[*] The public house now known as the "Goldsmiths' Arms," had formerly the sign of "The Groto."

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Title page of Vol. 2 reads: Theatrum illustrata. Graphic and historic memorials of ancient playhouses, modern theatres and other places of public amusement in the cities and suburbs of London & Westminster with scenic and incidental illustrations from the time of Shakspear to the present period.

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	Courts, Halls, and Public Buildings Pie-Powder, otherwise Pied-Poudre Court Furnival's Inn, Holborn. Taken down in 1818 The Custom House The Court and Prison of the Marshalsea: In High Street in the Borough of Southwark The Cross at West Chepe The Queen's Treasury, Scotland Yard The late Hall of the worshipful Company of Salters Interior of Salters' Hall Meeting House Blackwell Hall, King Street, Cheapside, in Bassishaw Ward The Old town Hall, St. Margaret's Hill, Southwark: In the Ward of Bridge Without, In the County of Surrey Gerrard's Hall St. Michael's Church, Aldgate Remains of an Ancient Crypt in Leadenhall Street Ancient Crypt, called the Cellar of Guy Fawkes, in the Old Palace Yard, Westminster Leaden-Hall and Chapel, Taken down in 1812: The Manor, Chapel, and Market, of Leadenhall, Lime Street Ward An Account of the Ruins Discovered, in 1821, at the Corner of Whitcomb Street, Formerly Called Hedge Lane Old Hungerford Market: Near York Buildings, Strand The New Hungerford Market
	Schools Queen Elizabeth's Free Grammar School Situated in Tooley Street in the Parish of St. Olave, in the Borough of Southwark St. Saviour's Free Grammar-School Southwark Davenant's Schools, Whitechapel Road St. Paul's School, St. Paul's Church Yard: In the Ward of Farringdon Within
	Alms-Houses, Hospitals, &c. Meggs' Almshouses, Whitechapel Road The London Workhouse Bishopsgate Street Bridewell Chapel and Court Room St. John's House Hoxton Sir Andrew Judde's Alms-Houses, Great St. Helen's, Bishopsgate Street Within 28
	Places of Amusement Holland's Leaguer Bankside Cuper's Gardens: In the Marsh and Wall Liberty of the Parish of St. Mary,Lambeth Finch's Grotto Gardens: St. George's Fields Southwark
	Miscellaneous Objects of Antiquity Autograph of Anna Boullen Inscriptions on the Coffin-plates of the Earl of Kilmarnock, Lord Balmerino, and Lord Lovat, who were executed on Tower Hill in the Years of 1746 and 1747 The Monument of London: On Fish Street Hill, in the Ward of Bridge-Within
	Ancient and Modern Theatres Remarks upon the ancient Theatres of London: Introductory of Particular Descriptions. The Clerken-Will: in Ray Street , in the Parish of St. James, Clerkenwell.
	Theatres The Bull and the Bear Baiting, The Red Bull Playhouse, Clerkenwell. Fortune Theatre Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre D'Avenant's Theatre Otherwise the Duke's Theatre, Little Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre Royal, Drury Lane Destruction of Drury Lane Theatre by Fire Opening of Drury Lane New Theatre Theatre Royal, Covent Garden The New Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. Theatre Royal, Haymarket New Theatre Royal, Haymarket The King's Theatre, or the Italian Opera, Haymarket Theatre in Goodman's Fields. The whole of Goodman's Fields was formerly a farm belonging to the Abbey of Nuns, of the Order of St. Clare, called the Minories or Minoresses, from certain poor ladies of that order; and so late as the time of Stow, when he wrote his Survey in 1598, was let out in gardens, and for grazing horses. One Trolop, and afterwards Goodman, were the farmers there. But Goodman's son being heir by his father's purchase, let the grounds in parcels, and lived like a gentleman on its produce. He lies buried in St. Botolph's church, Aldgate. The Royalty Theatre, Wellclose Square The Tennis Court Theatre, Bear Yard, Little Lincoln's Inn Fields Olympic Theatre, Newcastle Street, Strand Sadler's Wells. The Pantheon Theatre, Oxford Street Strand Theatre, the Sans Pareil Astley's Amphitheatre, Westminster Road The Regency Theatre. Tottenham Street Tottenham Court Road The Cobourg Theatre Royal Circus or Surrey Theatre Lyceum Theatre, or English Opera, Strand. Theatre in Tankard Street, Ipswich Checks and Tickets of Admission to the public Theatres and other Places of Amusement.