Blackjohn,
You're my hero! I have got to get that book...
Tell me, have you ever heard of this one? "Dr. Johnson's London : Coffee-Houses and Climbing Boys, Medicine, Toothpaste and Gin, Poverty and Press-Gangs, Freakshows and Female Education" by Liza Picard
Or this?
"1700: Scenes from London Life" by Maureen Waller
They intrigue me greatly.