The Early History of Piccadilly, Leicester Square, Soho and their Neighbourhood

Preface; Part I. The Land before the Houses: 1. Introductory; 2. The Abingdon lands; 3. The Burton Lazar lands; 4. The Mercers lands; 5. St Martin's field; 6. The lands in the possession of the Crown; 7. The lawsuit about Gelding's Close; 8. The parties and witnesses to the suit; 9. The heirs of Golightly and Robert Baker; 10. The description of the plan of 1585; Part II. The Building of the Streets: 1. St Giles's church and town; 2. Marhsland Close and Seven Dials; 3. Long Acre; 4. Covent Garden; 5. St Martin's church and town; 6. St Martin's Lane; 7. The Mews and its precincts; 8. Leicester Square and Castle Street; 9. The Military Garden and Newport House; 10. St Giles's Field and Soho; 11. The original Piccadilly; 12. Shaver's Hall: the original seventeenth century gaming-house; 13. Suffolk Buildings and James Street; 14. The Haymarket; 15. St James's Square and its neighbourhood; 16. The later Piccadilly; 17. Colonel Panton's buildings in Windmill Field; 18. The neighbourhood of Golden Square; 19. Wardour Street to Regent Street; 20. The origin of Regent Street; 21. The district west of Regent Street; 22. The Oxford Road; 23. Street-planning and the plan of 1585; Appendix 1. The documents relating to the lawsuit about Gelding's Close; Appendix 2. Survey of the houses at 'Pickadilley' in 1651; Appendix 3. The early maps of London; Index.