CHAPTER XI

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FLEET STREET TRIBUTARIES--SHOE LANE.

The First Lucifers--Perkins' Steam Gun--A Link between Shakespeare and Shoe Lane--Florio and his Labours--"Cogers' Hall"--Famous "Cogers"--A Saturday Night's Debate--Gunpowder Alley--Richard Lovelace, the Cavalier Poet--"To Althea, from Prison"--Lilly the Astrologer and his Knaveries--A Search for Treasure with Davy Ramsay--Hogarth in Harp Alley--The "Society of Sign Painters"--Hudson, the Song Writer--"Jack Robinson"--The Bishop's Residence--Bangor House--A Strange Story of Unstamped Newspapers--Chatterton's Death--Curious Legend of his Burial--A well-timed Joke 123

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