Frontispiece

Originally published in Volume 1 (1995)

View of St James’s Park, near Duck Island Cottage, in c.1910

(Greater London Record Office)

…Unto this all-sin-sheltring Grove
Whores of the Bulk, and the Alcove,
Great Ladies, Chamber Mayds, and Drudges,
The Ragg picker, and Heiress Trudges;
Carrmen, Divines, Great Lords, and Taylors,
Prentices, Poets, Pimps and Gaolers,
Footmen, Fine Fopps, doe here arrive …
‘A Ramble in Saint James’s Parke’

John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, c.1763