COVENT GARDEN

AN EARLY VIEW OF COVENT GARDEN, SHOWING PORTION OF THE LITTLE PIAZZAS (THE SITE OF HUMMUM'S HOTEL) ON THE LEFT

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COVENT GARDEN

ITS ROMANCE AND HISTORY

BY

REGINALD JACOBS

"Where holy friars told their beads,
And nuns confess'd their evil deeds.
But, oh! sad change! Oh! shame to tell
How soon a prey to vice it fell.
How since its justest appellation
Is Grand Seraglio to the nation."

(Satire, 1756.)

LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL

HAMILTON, KENT & CO. LD.