C.W. Heckethorn, in London Souvenirs, intones a litany of other London clubs: a Surly Club at a tavern near Billingsgate, filled with the tradesman of that quarter who met to sharpen "the practice of contradiction and of foul language"; a Spit-farthing Club, which met weekly at the Queen's Head in Bishopsgate, and was "composed chiefly of misers and skinflints; and the Club of Broken Shopkeepers, which met at Tumble Down Dick in Southwark and comprised bankrupts and others unfortunate in trade. The Mock Heroes Club met in an alehouse in Baldwin's Gardens, where each member would assume the name of a 'defunct hero', while the Lying Club congregated at the Bell Tavern in Westminster where 'no true word' was to be uttered during its proceedings. A Man-Killing Club which met at a tavern in a back-alley adjoining St Clement Danes admitted to membership no one 'who had not killed his man'; but there was also a Humdrum Club 'composed of gentlemen of peacable dispositions, who where satisfied to meet at a tavern, smoke their pipes and say nothing till midnight' when they went homeward. An Everlasting Club was so called 'because its hundred members divided the twenty four hours of day and night among themselves in such a manner that a club was always sitting, no person presuming to rise until he was relieved by his appointed successor'.

Peter Ackroyd: London. The Biography (2000)