Society for the Propogation of the Gospel

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Sir Walter Besant, in The Fascination of London, published in 1903, continues his survey of Pall Mall with a mention of the Society for the Propogation of the Gospel:

Pall Mall early became fashionable.

Nell Gwynne was one of the first residents.

She had a house numbered 79, near the War Office, afterwards, by the irony of fate, occupied by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, and since rebuilt.

Evelyn records an occasion on which he attended King Charles II in the park, when he heard "a familiar discourse between the King and Mrs. Nellie as they call an impudent comedian, she looking out of her garden on a terrace at the top of the wall, and the King standing on the green walk under it."

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