Chapter D: DACRE’S street, New Tothill street (2)

The late Duke of Chandos built near this town one of the most noble
seats in England, which he adorned and furnished at such vast
expence, that it had scarce its equal in the kingdom. The great
saloon or hall was painted by Paolucci, and the plaistering and
gilding of the house was done by the famous Italian Pergotti. The
columns supporting the building were all of marble: the grand
stair-case was extremely fine; the steps were marble, and every step
was one whole piece twenty-two feet in length.

The avenue was spacious and majestic, and as it afforded the view of
two fronts, joined as it were in one, the distance not permitting
you to see the angle that was in the center, so you were agreeably
deceived into the opinion, that the front of the house was twice as
large as it really was. And yet on approaching nearer, you were
again surprized, by perceiving a winding passage opening, as it
were, a new front to the eye of near an hundred and twenty feet
wide, which you imagined not to have seen before.

The gardens were well designed, and the canals large and noble. The
chapel was a singularity both in its building and the beauty of the
workmanship, and the late Duke maintained there at one time a full
choir, and had divine worship performed with the best music, after
the manner of the chapel royal. But all this grandeur was soon at an
end. The furniture and curiosities were brought to public auction;
and this superb edifice quite demolished. _Tour through Great
Britain._

The land whereon this structure was erected was lately purchased by
Mr. Hallet, an eminent cabinet-maker, who acquired a large fortune
in that business, and he has built an elegant small house upon the
ruins of the Duke of Chandos’s large and magnificent seat.

EDLIN’S _gate_, Tooley’s street.

EDMONTON, a village in Middlesex, in the road to Ware, seven miles and
a half from London.

EDMUND’S _court_, Prince’s street, Soho.

_St._ EDMUND THE KING, a church situated on the north side of Lombard
street, in Langborne ward, and thus denominated from its dedication
to St. Edmund King of the East Angles, who was barbarously murdered
by the Pagan Danes in the year 870, for his steadfast adherence to
the Christian religion. The name Grasschurch was once added to this;
but it is now disused: this last name took its rise from an herb
market near the church.

The first sacred edifice in this place, and of this name, was built
under the Saxon heptarchy: but the last old church was destroyed in
the fire of 1666, and the present structure was finished in 1690.
The length of this structure from north to south is 69 feet, and the
breadth from east to west 39. The altar is placed at the north end.
It has a square tower, upon which a short spire rises, with its base
fixed on a broad lanthorn.

This church is a rectory in the patronage of the Archbishop of
Canterbury; but in ecclesiastical affairs it is subject to the
Archdeacon of London; and the parish of St. Nicholas Acons being
united to it, the profits of the Rector are almost doubled; he
receives in lieu of tithes 180_l._ a year.

EDWARDS’S _Almshouse_, in the parish of Christ Church, Surry, was
built and endowed by the trustees of Mr. Edward Edwards, a citizen
and mason of London, for such poor persons of that parish as receive
no alms from that or any other parish. Each person has one room, an
allowance of 40_s._ a year; and once in two years a purple gown of
twenty shillings value.

EDWARD’S _court_, 1. Oxendon street.† 2. Panton street.†

EDWARD’S _rents_, Islington.†

EDWARD’S _street_, 1. Berwick street.† 2. Hare street, Spitalfields.†

EDWARD’S _wharf_, Durham yard in the Strand.†

EEL’S _yard_, in the Minories.†

EGGLIN’S _gateway_, Tooley street.†

EGHAM, a town in Surry, situated on the bank of the Thames almost
opposite to Stanes, and three miles on this side of Windsor. It has
several good inns, a noble charity school, and an almshouse built
and endowed by Baron Denham, Surveyor of the works to King Charles
II. for five poor old women, each of whom have an orchard. The
parsonage house was formerly the seat of Sir John Denham, who
rebuilt it. This Sir John was the father of the poet of that name,
who took great delight in this place.

ELBOW _lane_, 1. Dowgate hill; this lane running west, and suddenly
turning short into Thames street, was from this bending called Elbow
lane. 2. New Gravel lane. For _Great_ and _Little_ ELBOW _lane_, see
GREAT and LITTLE.

ELDER _lane_, Upper Millbank.‡

ELDER _street_, White Lion street, Norton Falgate.‡

ELEPHANT _court_, Whitechapel.*

ELEPHANT _lane_, Rotherhith wall.*

ELEPHANT _stairs_, Rotherhith.*

ELING, GREAT and LITTLE, are situated in Middlesex, between Brentford
and the Oxford road. Great Eling lies to the east of the other, and
has a work house and a charity school, with a pretty church that has
eight musical bells, and is the mother church of that of Old
Brentford.

ELIZABETH _court_, Whitecross street.

ELLIOT’S _court_, Little Old Bailey.†

ELLIOT’S _rents_, Stepney Causeway.†

ELLMAN _street_, Long Acre.†

ELM _court_, 1. Elm street.‡ 2. Middle Temple.‡

ELM _row_, Sun Tavern fields.‡

ELM _street_, Gray’s Inn lane.‡

ELSTREE, a village in Hertfordshire, situated on an eminence, within a
mile of Stanmore, and in the road from Watford to High Barnet. It is
also called Eaglestree, Illstree, and Idlestree.

ELTHAM, a town in Kent, seven miles from London in the road to
Maidstone. Here a palace was built by Anthony Beck, Bishop of
Durham, who bestowed it upon Queen Eleanor, the wife of Edward I.
King Edward II. constantly resided in this place, and his son being
born here, was on that account called John of Eltham. The palace
here was afterwards much enlarged by the succeeding Kings, who when
the court was kept at Greenwich often retired hither; and here were
made the statutes of Eltham by which the King’s house is still
governed. There are however no traces of the palace left. The town
has the honour of giving the title of Earl to the Prince of Wales;
and there are here the houses of several rich citizens, and two
charity schools.

ELY _court_, Holborn; so called from the Bishop of Ely’s house, which
is not far from it.

ELY HOUSE, the city mansion of the Bishop of Ely, was formerly called
Ely’s Inn. It is situated in Holborn, and stands on a large piece of
ground. Before it is a spacious court, and behind it a garden of
considerable extent; but it is so ill kept that it scarcely deserves
the name. The buildings are very old; and consist of a large hall,
several spacious rooms, and a good chapel.

EMANUEL _Hospital_, at Tothill side in Westminster, was founded by the
Lady Dacres, in the year 1601, for twenty old bachelors and maids,
sixteen of whom to be of St. Margaret’s parish Westminster, two of
Hayes, and two of Chelsea parishes; each of whom have an allowance
of 10_l._ _per annum_, with the liberty of bringing up a poor child.
According to certain constitutions formed by the foundress’s
executors, no person of ill fame, or that cannot say the creed and
ten commandments in English; or are under fifty years of age; or
have not lived three years in the said parishes, are to be admitted
upon this foundation.

The city of London is intrusted with the management of this charity,
and is to receive annually 200_l._ for its support, out of an estate
in Yorkshire, till the expiration of a lease of 199 years, when the
produce of the whole manor, which is said to amount to above 600_l._
_per annum_, is to be appropriated to the augmentation of this
foundation.

Some time ago the Court of Lord Mayor and Aldermen caused to be
erected at the upper end of this hospital, a handsome school house
and dormitory, for the reception of twenty poor boys and girls, who
were first admitted in the year 1735. They are supplied with the
necessaries of life; the boys are taught reading, writing, and
accounts; and the girls reading, writing, and plain work.

EMBROIDERERS, incorporated by the name of Broderers. See an account of
this company under the article BRODERERS.

EMM’S _yard_, Broad street, Ratcliff.†

EMPEROR’S HEAD _lane_, Thames street.*

ENFIELD, a town in Middlesex near eleven miles from London. Almost in
the center of Enfield Chace, are the ruins of an old house, said to
have belonged to the Earls of Essex. Here is a fine lodge for the
ranger, and the skirts of the chace abound with handsome country
houses belonging to the citizens of London. When King James I.
resided at Theobalds, this chace was well stocked with deer, and all
sorts of game; but in the civil wars it was stripped both of the
game and timber, and even let out in farms: however, after the
restoration it was again laid open, woods were planted, and the
whole chace afresh stocked with deer.

ENGINE _street_, Hyde Park road.

ENGLEFIELD GREEN, a village in Berkshire, in the parish of Egham,
where are several pleasant seats.

EPPING, a town in Essex, seventeen miles from London. The markets,
which are on Thursday for cattle, and on Friday for provisions, are
kept in Epping street, a hamlet about a mile and a half from the
church. There are several fine seats in Epping Forest, which is a
royal chace, and extends from the town almost to London.

EPSOM, a well-built and handsome town in Surry, sixteen miles from
London, abounds with very genteel houses, which are principally the
retreats of the merchants and citizens of London, and is a
delightful place open to Bansted Downs. Its mineral waters, which
issue from a rising ground nearer Ashted than Epsom, were discovered
in 1618, and soon became extremely famous; but though they are not
impaired in virtue, they are far from being in the same repute as
formerly; however, the salt made of them is valued all over Europe.
The hall, galleries, and other public apartments, are now run to
decay, and there remains only one house on the spot, which is
inhabited by a countryman and his wife, who carry the waters in
bottles to the adjacent places. Horse races are annually held on the
neighbouring downs. The town extends about a mile and a half in a
semicircle from the church to Lord Guilford’s fine seat at Durdans;
and, as Mr. Whatley observes, there are here so many fields,
meadows, orchards and gardens, that a stranger would be at a loss to
know whether this was a town in a wood, or a wood in a town. There
are many fine seats in this neighbourhood, besides Durdans, already
mentioned, as Lord Baltimore’s, the Lady Fielding’s, Earl of
Berkshire’s, &c.

ERITH, a village in Kent, situated on the banks of the Thames below
Woolwich, and about fourteen miles from London. For Mr. Gideon’s
house here, see BELVEDERE.

_Esher Place._
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ESHER, a village in Surry, situated near Walton upon Thames and
Hampton Court, of which last it affords a fine prospect, as well as
of the other parts of Middlesex.

ESHER PLACE, was the seat of the late Henry Pelham, Esq; The house is
a Gothic structure built of a brownish red brick, with stone facings
to the doors, windows, &c. It stands upon almost the lowest ground
belonging to it, and has the river Mole gliding close by it and
through the grounds. This house was originally one of those built by
Cardinal Wolsey; but the late Mr. Pelham rebuilt the whole, except
the two towers in the body of the house, which are the same that
belonged to the old building, and the whole is rebuilt in the same
style of architecture it was before, which uniformity is certainly
better than an unnatural mixture of Gothic and modern too often
practised. There is a fine summer house built upon a hill on the
left hand as you enter, which commands the view of the house, park,
and country round on both sides the Thames for many miles. The park
or ground in which the house is situated appears quite plain and
unadorned; yet perhaps not a little art has been used to give it
this natural and simple appearance, which is certainly very
pleasing. But in one part of it there is a pretty wilderness laid
out in walks, and planted with a variety of ever-green trees and
plants, with a grotto in it, and seats in different places. The wood
in the park is well disposed, and consists of fine oak, elm, and
other trees, and the whole country round appears finely shaded with
wood.

The grand floor of the house is elegantly finished, and consists of
six rooms. The great parlour is carved and gilt in a taste suitable
to the style of the house, with curious marble chimney pieces and
slab. In this room are the portraits of Mr. Pelham, Sir Robert
Walpole, afterwards Earl of Orford, Lord Townshend, Duke of Rutland,
the late Duke of Devonshire, and the late Duke of Grafton; a picture
of Lady Catharine Pelham and her son is over the chimney. In the
drawing room over the chimney there is a picture of King Charles II.
when only eleven years old, by Vandyke. The library is curiously
finished, and there is a good collection of books in it. Some say it
was at this house Cardinal Wolsey was first seized by order of Henry
VIII. on his refusing to annul his marriage with Queen Catharine,
that he might marry Ann Boleyn, and which refusal brought on his
fall.

ESSEX _court_, 1. Middle Temple. 2. Whitechapel. 3. White Friars.

ESSEX _stairs_, Essex street, in the Strand.☐

ESSEX _street_, 1. In Ratcliff Highway. 2. In the Strand; so called
from the Lord Essex’s house formerly there. 3. White Friars.

_Clerk of the_ ESSOINS, or excuses for lawful cause of absence; an
officer belonging to the court of Common Pleas, whose office is in
Searle street, Lincoln’s Inn.

_St._ ETHELBURGA’S Church, on the east side of Bishopsgate street, is
so denominated from the first Christian Princess in Britain, the
daughter of Ethelbert King of Kent. It escaped the fire in 1666. The
body is irregular and in the Gothic style, with very large windows;
and the steeple is a tall spire supported on a square tower.

This church is a rectory, the advowson of which was in the Prioress
and Nuns of St. Helen’s in Bishopsgate street, till the suppression
of their convent in 1536, when falling to the Crown, it was
afterwards granted to the Bishop of London, who has ever since
collated and inducted to it. The Rector receives about 60_l._ a year
in lieu of tithes.

_Eton College._
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ETON COLLEGE, justly celebrated for the many learned men it has
produced, is situated in Buckinghamshire on the banks of the Thames
opposite to Windsor, and was founded by Henry VI. for the support of
a Provost and seven Fellows, one of whom is Vice-Provost, and for
the education of seventy King’s scholars, as those are called, who
are on the foundation. These when properly qualified, are elected,
on the first Tuesday in August, to King’s College, Cambridge, but
they are not removed, till there are vacancies in the college, and
then they are called according to seniority; and after they have
been three years at Cambridge, they claim a fellowship. Besides
those on the foundation, there are seldom less than three hundred
scholars, at this time there are many more, who board at the masters
houses, or within the bounds of the college. The school is divided
into upper and lower, and each of these into three classes. To each
school there is a master and four assistants or ushers. The revenue
of the college is about 5000_l._ a year. Here is a noble library
enriched by a fine collection of books left by Dr. Waddington,
Bishop of Chester, valued at 2000_l._ and Lord Chief Justice Reeves
presented to this library the collection left him by Richard Topham,
Esq; keeper of the records in the Tower. In the great court is a
fine statue of the founder, erected at the expence of the late
Provost Dr. Godolphin, Dean of St. Paul’s. The chapel is in a good
style of Gothic architecture. The schools and other parts, which are
in the other style of building, are equally well, and seem like the
design of Inigo Jones.

EVANGELISTS _court_, Stonecutters alley, Black Friars.

EVAN’S _court_, Basinghall street.†

EVAN’S _rents_, Grub street.†

EVAN’S _row_, Old Bond street.†

EVANS _yard_, Church street, Rotherhith.†

EVENY FARM, in Middlesex, is situated between the streams of the Coln,
on the north side of Stanes, and belongs to the Dean and Chapter of
Westminster.

EUNUCH _court_, Near Goodman’s yard.‡

EWEL, a town near Epsom in Surry, fourteen miles from London. Here a
plentiful spring breaks out in several different spots, and becomes
the head of a fine stream as clear as crystal, that runs over Epsom
meadows, and falls into the Thames at Kingston.

_St._ EWEN, or OWEN, a parish church which anciently stood near the
north east corner of Warwick lane in Newgate street, the remains of
which are still to be seen in the cellars of Mr. Hinton, a
bookseller, and the next house to the west. This was one of the
churches given by Henry VIII. towards the erecting of Christ Church.

EWER’S _street_, Gravel lane.†

EXCHANGE. See ROYAL EXCHANGE, OLD CHANGE, and EXETER EXCHANGE.

EXCHANGE, or CHANGE _alley_, 1. Cornhill; so called from its being
situated opposite to the Royal Exchange. 2. In the Mint.

EXCHANGE _court_, 1. In the Strand.☐ 2. By Exeter Exchange.☐

EXCHEQUER, one of the four great courts of the kingdom, is held in a
room contiguous to the north west corner of Westminster hall, and is
so named from a chequered cloth, which anciently covered the table
where the Judges, or chief officers sat. This court was first
erected by William the Conqueror, for the trial of all causes
relating to the revenues of the crown; and in the same court there
are now also tried matters of equity between subject and subject.

The Judges of this court are, the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer,
and three other Judges called Barons of the Exchequer; who are all
created by letters patent to hold their offices _quamdiu se bene
gesserint_. There is also the Cursitor Baron of the Exchequer, who
administers the oath to the Sheriffs, Under-Sheriffs, bailiffs,
searchers, surveyors, &c. of the Custom house; but is no Judge. When
at any time the Barons are of different opinions concerning the
decision of any cause, they call to their assistance the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, who decides in favour of one of the parties by his
casting vote. _Dugdale’s Orig. Jurid._

Long after the conquest there sat in the Exchequer both spiritual
and temporal Barons, whence in later times those who sat there, tho’
they were not Peers, were stiled Barons.

EXCHEQUER, or _the Office of the receipt of his Majesty’s_ EXCHEQUER,
a plain old building formed of wood and plaister, at the south end
of New Palace yard, where the King’s revenue is received and
disbursed. This important office is under the direction of the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, who has the custody of the Exchequer
seal; he has also the comptrollment of the rolls of the Lords of the
Treasury, and sits in the court above the Barons of the Exchequer.
He has the gift of the office of Comptroller of the Pipe, and of
that of Clerk of the Nihils.

The Auditor of the receipts of the Exchequer, is another great
officer. He files the bills of the Tellers, and draws all orders to
be signed by the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, for issuing
forth all money, in virtue of privy seals, which are recorded by the
Clerk of the Pells, and entered and lodged in the Auditor’s office.
He also, by warrant from the Lords of the Treasury, makes debentures
to the several persons who have fees, annuities or pensions, by
letters patent from the King, out of the Exchequer, and directs them
for payment to the Tellers. He daily receives the state of each
Teller’s account, and weekly certifies the whole to the Lords
Commissioners, who immediately present the estimate, or balance to
the King. He makes half yearly, at Michaelmas and Lady-day, a book
called _A Declaration_, containing a methodical abstract of all the
accounts and payments made the preceding half year, and delivers one
of them to the Lords of the Treasury, and another to the Chancellor
of the Exchequer; and by him are kept the registers appointed for
paying all persons in course, upon several branches of the King’s
revenue. For the discharge of these offices, he has a chief clerk, a
clerk of the debentures, a clerk of the registers and issues, a
clerk of the cash book, and a clerk for making out Exchequer bills;
and in the offices for annuities under the Auditor are two chief
clerks, and nine clerks under them.

The other great officers are the four Tellers of the Exchequer, each
of whom has his deputy, his first clerk, and four other clerks.
Their office is to receive all moneys due to the King, and thereupon
to throw down a bill through a pipe into the tally court, where it
is received by the Auditor’s clerk, who there attends to write the
words of the bill upon a tally, and then delivers the same to be
entered by the Clerk of the Pells, or his under clerk, who attends
to enter it in his book; then the tally is cloven by the two Deputy
Chamberlains, and while the senior deputy reads one part, the junior
examines the other part with the two clerks.

Another great officer is the Clerk of the Pells, who enters the
Tellers bills on a parchment skin, in latin _Pellis_, and likewise
all receipts and payment for the King; this officer is in the nature
of a comptroller; he has a deputy, a clerk for the _introitus_, and
another for the _exitus_. There are also a clerk of the
declarations, and a clerk of the patents. In this office there are
likewise three vouchers of the Tellers.

_Tally Court in the_ EXCHEQUER. In order to give a more perfect idea
of this office, it will be proper to say something of the nature of
tallies. The word tally is derived from the French word _tailler_,
to cut, a tally being a piece of wood wrote upon on both sides,
containing an acquittance for money received, which being cloven
asunder by the Deputy Chamberlains, one part, called the stock, is
delivered to the person who pays or lends any money to the
government; and the other part, called the counter-stock or
counter-foil, remains in the office, to be kept till called for, and
joined with the stock. This method of striking tallies is very
ancient, and has been found by long experience to be the best way of
preventing frauds that ever was invented; for it is morrally
impossible so to counterfeit a tally, but upon rejoining it with the
counter-foil, the intended fraud will be obvious to every eye,
either in the notches or the cleaving, in the length or in the
breadth, in the natural growth, or in the shape of the counter-foil.

To the tally court belong the two Chamberlains of the Exchequer, in
whose custody are many ancient records, leagues, and treaties with
foreign princes, the standards of money, weights, and measures,
those ancient books called the Black Book of the Exchequer, and
Doomsday Book, which last contains an account of all the cities,
towns, villages and families in the reign of William the Conqueror.
This book is kept under three locks and keys, and cannot be examined
for less than 6_s._ 8_d_. and for every line transcribed is paid
4_d_.

Under these officers are four Deputy Chamberlains, in whose office
are preserved all the counter-foils of the above tallies, so exactly
ranked by months or years, that they may be easily found out, in
order to be joined with their respective tallies, which being done
and proved true, they deliver it attested for a lawful tally to the
Clerk of the Pipe, to be allowed in the great roll.

The other officers of this court, are the Usher of the Exchequer,
his deputy and clerk; three Paymasters of Exchequer bills, their
deputy, and a Comptroller of Exchequer bills; a tally writer for the
Auditor, who has two assistant clerks, and a tally cutter.
_Chamberlain’s Present State._

There are several other offices belonging to the Exchequer, as the
pipe office in Gray’s Inn; Foreign Apposer’s office, and King’s
Remembrancer’s office, in the Temple; Clerk of the pleas office, in
Lincoln’s Inn, &c. See the articles PIPE OFFICE, FOREIGN APPOSER’S
OFFICE, &c. See also the article TREASURER.

EXECUTION _dock_, Wapping; thus named from its being the place where
pirates and others who have committed capital crimes at sea, are
executed on a gallows which leans over the water.

EXCISE OFFICE, in the Old Jewry, is a large brick building near the
paved court on the south side of the church, formerly the dwelling
house of Sir John Frederick. This office was, till lately, managed
by seven Commissioners; but the many new excisable commodities
brought under their care, have occasioned their number to be
increased to nine. These receive the produce of the excise of beer,
ale, and other liquors, of coffee, tea, and chocolate, of malt,
hops, soap, starch, candles, paper, calicoes, gold and silver wire,
vellum, parchment, hides and skins, collected all over England, and
pay it into the Exchequer. They have each a salary of 1000_l._ a
year, and are obliged by oath to take no fee or reward, but from the
King only.

Before the Commissioners of Excise are tried all frauds committed in
the several branches of the revenue under their direction; and if
any person thinks himself injured by their sentence, he may appeal
to the Commissioners of Appeal for a rehearing.

At the desire of the Commissioners of this office, a very laudable
practice is lately set on foot, for the support of the valetudenary
and aged clerks and officers belonging to the same; for which
purpose the several clerks and officers contribute 3_d._ per pound
out of their respective salaries, which is said to amount to about
3000_l._ _per annum_. _Chamberlain’s Present State._ _Maitland’s
Survey._

EXETER ’CHANGE, an edifice in the Strand, erected for the sake of
trade, consisting of a long room with a row of shops on each side,
and a large room above, now used for auctions. This edifice received
its name from the mansion of the Earls of Exeter, which stood near
it. _Maitland._

EXETER ’CHANGE _court_, Exeter street.

EXETER _street_, Catharine street, so called from its being situated
near Exeter ’Change.

F.

_Court of_ FACULTIES _and_ DISPENSATIONS, in Doctors Commons, under
the Archbishop of Canterbury. When the papal power was abolished in
England by King Henry VIII. this court was established by act of
parliament, that the Archbishop in the Pope’s stead, might grant
dispensations and indulgences for eating flesh upon prohibited days;
for marrying without banns or on holydays; for a son to succeed his
father in his benefice; for a plurality of livings, non-residence,
and other cases of the like nature. To this court belongs an officer
called _Magister ad Facultates_, and a register.

FAGER’S _alley_, Turnmill street†

FAIR _street_, Horselydown.

_St._ FAITH’S, a parish church once under the east end or choir of St.
Paul’s cathedral. It owes its name to its being dedicated to St.
Faith, or _Sancta Fides_, a French virgin of the city of Agen, in
the province of Aquitain, who is said to have suffered martyrdom in
the reign of the Emperor Dioclesian, for refusing to sacrifice to
idols. No records however remain of the antiquity of this church, in
which several persons of note were formerly interred, nor is it
known at what time divine service was performed in it, other than by
chauntry priests for the souls of their departed benefactors. This
church however having suffered with St. Paul’s cathedral, it was
thought proper entirely to demolish it, and to unite the parish to
that of St. Austin’s.

FALCON _alley_, 1. Barnaby street.* 2. King street, Westminster.* 3.
Redcross street.*

FALCON _court_, 1. In the Borough.* 2. Fleet street.* 3. Lothbury.* 4.
Near Rag street, Clerkenwell.* 5. Shoe lane.* 6. Shoemaker row,
Aldgate.*

FALCON _Inn yard_, St. Margaret’s hill.*

FALCON _lane_, 1. Falcon stairs.* 2. Maiden lane, Southwark.*

FALCON _row_, 1. Codpiece row.* 2. Fleet street.* 3. Long lane,
Southwark.* 4. Lothbury.* 5. St. Margaret’s hill.* 6. Shoe lane.* 7.
White street.*

FALCON _stairs_, Gravel lane.*

FALCON _yard_, 1. Kent street.* 2. Shoemaker row, Aldgate.* 3. Tooley
street.*

FALCONBRIDGE _court_, Hog lane, St. Giles’s.†

FALCONER’S _alley_, 1. Cow Cross, West Smithfield.† 2. Cross street,
by Lukener’s lane.† 3. Turnmill street.†

FAN _court_, St. Michael’s lane.

FANMAKERS, a company incorporated by letters patent granted by Queen
Anne, in the year 1709. This fraternity is governed by a Master, two
Wardens, and twenty Assistants; but they have neither hall nor
livery. _Maitland._

FANN’S _alley_, 1. Goswell street.† 2. Webb’s square.†

FARINGDON WARD _Within_, received its name from William Farendon and
Nicolas his son, who had the government of all this ward for the
space of eighty-two years; and it received the addition of _within_,
on account of this part of Faringdon ward lying within the walls. It
is bounded on the north by Aldersgate ward, Cripplegate ward, and
the liberty of St. Martin’s le Grand; on the west by Faringdon
without, on the south by Castle Baynard ward, and the river Thames;
and on the east by Castle Baynard ward, and Cheap ward.

The principal streets and lanes in this ward are, Newgate street,
the west side of Warwick lane, Ave Mary lane, Paternoster row, Ivy
lane, St. Paul’s church yard, Ludgate street, and Black Friars.

The most remarkable buildings are, St. Paul’s cathedral, St. Vedast
in Foster lane, Christ Church in Newgate street, St. Martin’s
Ludgate, and St. Matthew’s Friday street; the college of Physicians,
Stationers hall, Apothecaries hall, Sadlers hall, Embroiderers hall,
and Scots hall; St. Paul’s school, Christ Church hospital, and
Ludgate.

This ward is governed by an Alderman, his Deputy, twelve Common
Council men, eighteen wardmote inquest men, eighteen scavengers,
seventeen constables and a beadle; and the jury returned by the
inquest for this ward serve in the courts of Guildhall in the month
of September.

FARINGDON WARD _Without_, is the farthest ward to the west of the
city, and is bounded on the north by the Charterhouse, the parish of
St. James Clerkenwell, and part of St. Andrew’s parish without the
freedom; on the west, by High Holborn and St. Clement’s parish in
the Strand; on the south, by the Thames; and on the east, by the
ward of Faringdon within, the precinct of St. Bartholomew near
Smithfield, and the ward of Aldersgate.

The principal places in this ward are, Smithfield, Cloth Fair,
Bartholomew Close, Snow hill, and all Holborn up to the Bars, Hatton
Garden, Leather lane, and Brook street; the Old Bailey, Ludgate
hill, Fleet ditch and market, Shoe lane, Fetter lane, Fleet street,
White Friars, and Salisbury court.

The most remarkable buildings are, the Temple, Serjeants Inn,
Clifford’s, Barnard’s and Thavie’s Inns, Temple Bar, Bridewell
hospital, St. Bartholomew’s hospital, Fleet prison, Surgeon’s hall;
and the parish churches of St. Bartholomew the Great, St.
Bartholomew the Less, St. Sepulchre’s, St. Andrew’s Holborn, St.
Dunstan’s in the west, and St. Bride’s.

This ward being so very extensive is parted into three divisions,
and is governed by an Alderman, and three Deputies, sixteen Common
Council men, forty-four inquest men, fifteen scavengers, and fifteen
constables. The jury returned by the inquest in this ward serve in
the several courts of Guildhall in the month of June.

FARMER’S _alley_, 1. Gardiner’s lane.† 2. Hog lane, St. Giles’s.†

FARMER’S _court_, Ivy street.†

FARMER’S _street_, Shadwell.†

FARR’S _alley_, St. Giles’s.†

FARR’S _rents_, Rotherhith wall.†

FARR’S _yard_, Whitecross street.†

FARRANT’S _yard_, Rotherhith wall.†

FARRIERS, a company incorporated by letters patent granted by King
Charles II. in the year 1673, and governed by a Master, three
Wardens, twenty-four Assistants, and seventy-six Liverymen, each of
whom, upon their admission, pay a fine of 5_l._ but they have no
hall. _Maitland._

FARRIER’S _yard_, 1. In the Minories. 2. Stoney lane.

FARTHING _alley_, 1. East Smithfield. 2. Jacob street, Rotherhith. 3.
In the Maze.

FARTHING _fields_, 1. New Gravel lane.║ 2. Old Gravel lane.║

FARTHING _street_, Phenix street, Spitalfields.║

FASHION _street_, Artillery lane, Spitalfields.

FAUSTIN’S _court_, Bowl alley, St. Giles’s.† 2. Vinegar lane, Drury
lane.†

FEATHERS _alley_, 1. Bedfordbury.* 2. Holborn.* 3. Long Acre.* 4. St.
Martin’s lane, Charing Cross.* 5. In the Strand.*

FEATHERS _court_, 1. Bury court, Piccadilly.* 2. Drury lane.* 3. Fox
court, Gray’s Inn lane.* 4. High Holborn.* 5. Milk street,
Cheapside.*

FEATHERSTONE’S _buildings_, High Holborn.†

FEATHERSTONE’S _court_, Featherstone street.†

FEATHERSTONE _street_, Bunhill row.†

FELL _court_, Fell street.†

FELL _street_, Little Wood street.†

FELL’S _Almshouse_, at Blackwall, was erected by Capt. Fell for the
accommodation of four poor families, but without any allowance for
their support.

FELLOWSHIP _Porters_. See PORTERS.

FELTMAKERS. The Felt hat-makers being anciently a branch of the
company of Haberdashers of hats, they applied in the year 1576 for
an exclusive charter; but being opposed by the Haberdashers, their
endeavours proved abortive; but at last all disputes being adjusted,
they were separately incorporated by letters patent granted by King
James I. in the year 1604. They are governed by a Master, four
Wardens, and twenty-five Assistants, with a livery of sixty members,
who at their admission pay a fine of 5_l._ each, but they have no
hall. _Maitland._

FEN _court_, 1. Fenchurch street. 2. St Michael’s lane.†

FENCHURCH _buildings_, Fenchurch street.

FENCHURCH _street_, Gracechurch street. It took its name from the
Lang-bourn, a rivulet or bourn, that arose near the place which is
now Magpye alley, and spreading near the spring head, rendered the
contiguous street so moorish or fenny, especially about the church,
which stood in the broad way between Mincing lane and Rood lane,
that it from thence obtained the name of Fenchurch street.
_Maitland._

FENWICK’S _court_, High Holborn.

FETCHAM, a village near Leatherhead, where is the seat of Thomas
Revel, Esq; on which no cost has been spared to render a most
beautiful situation by nature, more delightful by art.

FETTER _lane_, Fleet street, in old writings called Feuter lane; it
was then what Drury lane is now.

FETTER LANE _court_, Bernard’s Inn.

FIELD _court_, Gray’s Inn.

FIELD _lane_, Holborn hill.

FIGTREE _court_, 1. Barbican.‡ 2. Inner Temple.‡

FIGTREE _yard_, Maudlin’s rents.‡

FINCH _lane_, Cornhill.†

FINCHLEY, a village in Middlesex between Hendon and Coneyhatch, is
seven miles north of London.

FINSBURY, Moorfields, formerly called Fensbury, from a neighbouring
fen or moor. _Maitland._

FINSBURY COURTS, in this place the steward of the manor holds a court
leet and court baron, in which are transacted the business peculiar
to each court.

FINSBURY _yard_, Chiswell street.

FIRE OFFICE. See the particular names by which they are distinguished,
as HAND IN HAND, SUN FIRE OFFICE, UNION, &c.

FIREBALL _alley_, Houndsditch.

FIREBALL _court_, 1. Houndsditch. 2. First Postern, London Wall.

FIRST FRUITS OFFICE, in the Middle Temple, is under the Remembrancer
of the first fruits, under whom is a Deputy and senior clerk, a
Receiver, and a Deputy Receiver of the first fruits; a Receiver of
the tenths, and his clerk, and a Comptroller of the first fruits and
tenths.

FISH MARKET _court_, Bloomsbury.

FISH STREET _hill_, Gracechurch street.

FISH _yard_, 1. St. Margaret’s lane. 2. Pudding lane.

FISHERMEN, a company incorporated by letters patent granted by King
James II. in the year 1687, by the name of _The_ _free Fishermen of
London_; but it does not appear that they have either livery or
arms: They have however a hall in Thames street.

FISHER’S _alley_, 1. Hide street, Bloomsbury.† 2. Rosemary lane.† 3.
Water lane, Fleet street.†

FISHER’S _Almshouse_, in the Dog row, near Mile end, was erected by
Capt. Fisher, in the year 1711, for the widows of six masters of
ships, for whose support he settled upon it an estate of 40_l._ a
year; and committed the trust of it to the fraternity of the Trinity
House.

To this edifice are since added two additional rooms, the ground for
which was purchased by Sir Charles Wager, and these rooms built by
Sir William Ogborne in the year 1728. The two widows who live in
these, have each an allowance of 16_s._ a month, and 20_s._ _per
annum_ for coals.

FISHER’S _court_, Eagle street, Holborn.†

FISHER’S _rents_, Broad street, Old Gravel lane.†

FISHER’S _street_, Red Lion square.†

FISHMONGERS. These as well as the other persons concerned in
furnishing the city with provisions, were anciently under the
immediate direction of the court of Lord Mayor and Aldermen, and
these magistrates had this power confirmed by an act of parliament
in the seventh of Richard II. in the year 1384. At that time the
dealers in fish consisted of two communities, viz. the salt-fish,
and stock-fishmongers, though they were not incorporated till
afterwards, the former in 1433, and the latter in 1509. But this
division proving prejudicial to the profession in general, they
united, and were incorporated by letters patent, granted by Henry
VIII. in the year 1536.

This is one of the twelve principal companies, and is governed by a
Prime and five other Wardens, twenty-eight Assistants, and 140
Liverymen, who upon their admission pay a fine of 13_l._ 6_s._ 8_d_.
This corporation pays to charitable uses about 800_l._ _per annum_.

FISHMONGERS HALL, situated in Thames street, a little above the
Bridge, and has a view of the river. The entrance from Thames street
is by a handsome passage which leads into a large square court,
paved with flat stones, and encompassed by the great hall, the court
room for the Assistants, and other grand apartments, with galleries;
these are of an handsome construction, and are supported by Ionic
columns, with an arcade. The front next the Thames has been lately
repaired and ornamented at a very great expence. The ascent to the
first apartments is by a double flight of steps from the wharf; the
door is adorned with Ionic columns, and these support an open
pediment, in which is a shield with the arms of the company; the
windows are ornamented with stone cases, and the quoins of the
building are wrought with a handsome rustic, and in the whole of
this front there is a great deal of solid beauty.

FISHMONGERS _alley_, 1. St. Margaret’s hill. 2. Fenchurch street.

FISHMONGERS _Almshouses_, handsome buildings at Newington Butts,
founded and erected at different times. The most ancient is St.
Peter’s hospital, a Gothic structure, built with brick and stone,
with a brick wall before it, within which are two rows of tall
trees, and behind the buildings a garden.

The entrance is by a pair of iron gates opening to the center of the
building, which is lofty but very irregular. On the inside are two
courts behind each other, in which is a hall with painted windows
and a chapel. Inscriptions on the sides of these courts shew that
they were built at different times.

To the south of this hospital is another founded by Mr. James
Hulbert, a liveryman of the Fishmonger’s company, in the year 1719,
whose statue is erected upon a pedestal; and in the wall which
extends before both, are iron rails, to afford a view of this
statue, the more modern hospital, erected by that gentleman, and the
pleasant walks before it.

The Fishmongers company erected St. Peter’s hospital by virtue of
letters patent granted by King James I. in the year 1618, for the
reception of several of their poor members who had pensions
bequeathed them by the wills of several members of the company:
thirteen of whom were beadsmen and women of the company’s great
benefactor Sir Thomas Knesworth, who in 1513 left them 8_d_. _per_
week each. Sir Thomas Hunt also in 1615 left 20_l._ 10_s._ _per
annum_ towards the support of six ancient poor men and women.
Richard Edmunds in 1620 bequeathed an annual sum of 6_l._ towards
the maintenance of two poor persons; which number of twenty-one
pensioners, with one added by the company, were put into this
hospital; and soon after Sir John Leman, Sir John Gayer, Mr. Harper,
Arthur Mouse and Mrs. Anne Bromsgrove, by their respective wills
demised several sums to the amount of 28_l._ _per annum_.

Each of the twenty-two almspeople have two rooms, and an allowance
of 3_s._ per week, 15_s._ at Christmas, a chaldron of coals and a
gown yearly. And one of the pensioners, who reads prayers twice a
day in the chapel has an additional allowance of 2_l._ _per annum_.

The more modern structure was, as we have already said, founded by
Mr. James Hulbert, citizen and fishmonger, for the accommodation of
twenty poor men and women; who besides two neat rooms to live in,
have each an allowance of 3_s._ a week, one chaldron of coals, a
gown every year, and 10_s._ at Christmas.

FITCHE’S _court_, Noble street, Foster lane.†

FITZER’S _wharf_, Shadwell.†

FIVE BELL _alley_, Little Moorfields.*

FIVE BELL _court_, Leadenhall street.*

FIVE FEET _lane_, 1. Barnaby street. 2. Broad street. 3. Thames
street; so called because the west end was but five feet broad.
_Stow._

FIVE FIELDS, Chelsea.

FIVE FIELDS _row_, Chelsea.

FIVE FOOT _alley_, 1. Old Gravel lane. 2. Petty France, Westminster.

FIVE FOOT _court_, Old Fish street hill.

FIVE INKHORN _alley_, Whitechapel.*

FIVE INKHORN _court_, 1. Petticoat lane.* 2. Whitechapel.*

FIVE PIPE _alley_, Pickleherring street.*

FLAMPTON _court_, Fore street.†

FLEECE _court_, Rose and Crown court, Moorfields.*

FLEECE _yard_, 1. Cornhill.* 2. Tothill street.*

FLEET BRIDGE, at the end of Fleet Ditch next the market. Since the
filling up of Fleet Ditch, this can scarcely be termed a bridge; but
as one of the walls of the bridge is still left, for the security of
passengers, by preventing their falling into the ditch on that side,
it still retains its ancient name.

FLEET DITCH, a part of the town ditch by which Turnmill brook, and the
little river Fleet, fell into the Thames. In this ditch flood gates
were erected in the year 1606; and after the fire of London, it was
by order of the Mayor and court of Aldermen, cleansed, enlarged, and
made navigable, for barges to come up by the benefit of the tides,
as far as Holborn Bridge, where Turnmill brook fell into this
channel. The sides were built of stone and brick, with warehouses on
each side, which ran under the street, and were designed to be used
for laying in of coals, and other commodities. It had five feet
water at the lowest tide at Holborn Bridge: the wharfs on each side
of the channel were thirty-five feet broad; and were rendered secure
from danger in the night by rails of oak being placed along the
sides of the ditch. Over this canal were four bridges of Portland
stone, viz. at Bridewell, Fleet street, Fleet lane, and Holborn. The
whole expence of sinking, clearing, wharfing, planking and piling,
with that of paving, posting and railing, amounted in the whole to
27,777_l._ besides what was paid to the several proprietors, whose
grounds were taken for the enlargement of the wharfs and keys, on
either side of the channel. _Camden._ _Stow._

In digging this canal between Fleet prison and Holborn Bridge,
several Roman utensils were discovered at the depth of fifteen feet;
and, a little deeper, a great quantity of Roman coins in silver,
copper, brass, and all other metals except gold. Those of silver
were ring-money of several sizes, the largest about the bigness of a
crown, but gradually decreasing; the smallest were about the size of
a silver two-pence, each having a snip in the edge: and at Holborn
Bridge were dug up two brazen Lares, or Houshold gods, about four
inches in length, which were almost incrusted with a petrific
matter: one of these was Bacchus, and the other Ceres: but the coins
lying at the bottom of the current, their lustre was in a great
measure preserved by the water incessantly washing off the corroding
salt.

Probably the great quantity of coin found in this ditch, was thrown
in by the Roman inhabitants of this city, for its preservation, at
the approach of Boadicea, at the head of her army; but all the Roman
citizens, without distinction of age or sex, being barbarously
massacred by the justly enraged Britons, it was not discovered till
this time. Besides the above mentioned antiquities, several things
of a more modern date were discovered, as arrow heads, scales,
seals, with the proprietors names upon them in Saxon characters;
spur-rowels of an hand’s breadth, keys and daggers coated over with
a livid petrific rust; together with a considerable number of
medals, with crosses, crucifixes, and Ave Maries engraven thereupon.
_Conyer’s MSS. in Sir Hans Sloane’s library in the Museum._

Fleet Ditch now extends no higher than Fleet Bridge, all above being
arched, covered over, and converted into a market; and the building
the fine bridge at Black Friars, will soon occasion all that is left
of this ditch to be filled up.

FLEET _lane_, Old Bailey, extends to Fleet market.

FLEET MARKET, situated upon the canal called Fleet Ditch, was opened
on the 30th of September 1737. Instead of stalls there are two rows
of shops of a great length from north to south, with a handsome walk
between, into which light is thrown by windows placed along the top;
and in the center is a neat lanthorn with a clock; the whole of this
part is paved with rag stones. On the south end, the fruiterers
stands are made in the form of piazzas erected on each side, and
these have proper conveniences to deposit their remaining stock.

FLEET PRISON, is situated on the east side of Fleet market, and a
little to the south of Fleet lane, and was originally so called from
the river Fleet running by it. It is very large, and reckoned the
best prison in the city for good rooms, and other conveniences. It
has the benefit of an open yard, which is enclosed with a very high
wall.

The keeper is called the Warden of the Fleet; and besides his fees
from the prisoners for turning the key, for chamber rent, &c. which
amount to a considerable sum, he has the rents of the shops in
Westminster Hall.

This prison belongs to the court of Common Pleas, and hither persons
are committed for contempt of orders, &c. in the high court of
Chancery; or upon debt, when by a writ of Habeas Corpus they remove
themselves thither from any other prison.

The _rules_ or _liberties_ of the _Fleet_, are all the north side of
Ludgate hill, and the Old Bailey up to Fleet lane; down that lane
into the market, and then turning the corner on the left, all the
east side along by the Fleet prison to the bottom of Ludgate hill.

FLEET _street_, 1. From Fleet ditch to Temple Bar.☐ 2. Little George
street, Spitalfields.

FLEET STREET _court_, 1. Fleet street.☐ 2. Little George street,
Spitalfields.

FLEMISH _court yard_, Tower ditch.

FLEMISH _grounds_, Tooley street.

FLEMISH _hop gardens_, Bedfordbury.

FLETCHERS, or Arrowmakers, from the French word _flèche_, an arrow;
though arrows have been near three centuries out of use in England,
and though this is a company only by prescription and not by
charter, they have nevertheless obtained a coat of arms and a
livery; are become the thirty-ninth company in the city, and seem in
all respects as firmly established, as those incorporated by letters
patent.

This fraternity, which entirely consists of people of other trades,
consists of two Wardens, ten Assistants, and twenty-five Liverymen,
who, upon their admission, pay a fine of 10_l._ each. They have a
small but convenient hall in St. Mary Ax.

FLETCHER’S _court_, Bembridge street.†

FLOWER AND DEAN _street_, Spitalfields.††

FLOWER DE LUCE _alley_, 1. Black Friars.* 2. Wheeler street.*

FLOWER DE LUCE _court_, 1. Black Friars.* 2. Cow Cross.* 3. Fleet
street.* 4. Gray’s Inn lane.* 5. Grub street.* 6. Houndsditch.* 7.
Ludgate hill.* 8. St. Michael’s lane.* 9. Parish Garden lane.* 10.
Tooley street.* 11. Turnmill street.*

FLOWER DE LUCE _street_, 1. Elder street.* 2. Wheeler street.*

FLOWER DE LUCE _yard_, 1. Gray’s Inn lane.* 2. Parish Garden lane.* 3.
Tooley street.* 4. Turnmill street.*

FLYING HORSE _court_, 1. Fleet street.* 2. Grub street.* 3. Long
alley.* 4. Maiden lane, Wood street.*

FLYING HORSE _yard_, 1. Bartholomew Close.* 2. Bishopsgate street. 3.
Blackman street.* 4. Broad street.* 5. Dolphin alley.* 6. Fleet
street.* 7. Half-moon alley, Moorfields.* 8. Houndsditch.* 9. Mare
street, Hackney.

FOGWELL _court_, Charterhouse lane.†

FOLE _alley_, Swan alley, East Smithfield.*

FOLLY, near St. Saviour’s Dock.║

FOLLY _lane_, Neckinger lane, Rotherhith.║

FOOT _alley_, King street, Spitalfields.║

_Foots Cray Place._
_S. Wale delin._ _B. Green sc. Oxon._
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FOOTS CRAY PLACE, in Kent, about twelve miles from London, is the seat
of Bouchier Cleeve, Esq; and was built by himself, after a design of
Palladio, of the Ionic order, and is very elegant. The original
design had four porticoes, three of which are filled up to get more
room. The hall is octagonal, and has a gallery round which conveys
you to the bed chambers. It is enlightened from the top, and is very
beautiful. The edifice is built of stone, but the offices, which are
on each side at some distance, are brick. The house stands on a
rising ground, with a gradual descent from it till you come to the
water, which from the house appears to be a small river gliding
along through the whole length of the ground: and in that part of
the water which is opposite to the house, there is a fine cascade
constantly flowing out of it. But this water which appears to be
such a pretty natural stream, is in reality artificial, and is
brought from the river Cray which runs just by. When the canal or
cut which is made through the ground to receive the water from the
river is full, it forms the cascade before the house, by flowing
over in that place, and the surplus water being instantly buried in
the ground, is again conveyed away under this cut or canal to the
main stream. The chief beauty of the ground about the house consists
in its simplicity, it being entirely without ornament, and the whole
of it a kind of lawn, having little besides the plain turf. The
situation is pleasant, and the prospect from the house very good.
The disposition of the rooms within the house appear to be very
convenient, and the several apartments are elegantly finished and
suitably furnished. The Chinese bed and other furniture of this kind
in the principal bed chamber, is perfectly beautiful. The gallery,
which extends the whole length of the north front of the house, is a
very grand room, and is filled with pictures by the most eminent
masters; and there are several other good pieces of this kind in the
dining room and parlour, of all which the following is an exact
list.

Pictures at Foots Cray Place.
Common Parlour.

Seven sea pieces, Vandeveldt.

A small Dutch kitchen, Calf.

Landscape, Wynantz.

Mocking Christ, Bassano.

View of the Rialto, Marieschi.

View of St. Mark’s place and Bull feast at Venice, Canaletti and
Chimeroli.

Moon light, Vandeneer.

Emblematical picture, Gulio Carpioni.

Landscape under it, by Glauber; figures by Laress.

Doge’s palace, Carlovarin.

A sea port and market in Holland, Wenix.

Landscape by Glauber; figures by Laress. A smith’s shop, Old Wyke.

Oval landscape, Lambert.

Gallery West End.

Landscape morning, Claude Lorrain.

Ditto evening, ditto.

Venus and Cupid, Vandyke.

Landscape, Both.

North Front.

Adoration of the shepherds, Old Coloni.

Temple of the Muses, Romanelli.

Susanna and the Elders, Guercino.

Wolf and dogs, by Snyders; the landscape by Rubens.

Flower piece, Van Hysum.

Landscape, Wynantz.

Ditto, Swanevelt.

Flower piece, Van Hysum.

Abraham and Hagar, Rembrant.

Landscape, Paul Potter.

Jacob with his flocks, Rosa Tivoli.

Landscape, Gaspar Pousin.

Fruit piece, De Heem.

French King on horseback, by Vandermeulen.

Three horses mounted, Van Dyke.

East End.

Judgment of Paris, Giuseppe Chiari.

Landscape, Hobima.

Paradise, Tempesta.

Landscape, by Paul Brill; figures Annibale Carracci.

South Side.

Lapithæ and Centaurs, L. Giordano.

Landscape, Wouwerman.

Country wake, Teniers.

Landscape, Wouwerman.

View of Venice, Canaletti.

Holy family, Rubens.

Madona, Carlo Dolci.

Christ blessing St. Francis, Annibale Carracci.

Dead Christ, ditto.

Smith’s forge, Brouwer.

Cat and boys, Old Meris.

Dead game and figures, Snyders and Rubens.

Heraclitus and Democritus, Rembrant.

Sea piece, Vandeveldt.

Boy and goat, Vanderborch.

A view of the Rhone, Teniers.

Cattle, Adrian Vandeveldt.

Circumcision, Paul Veronese.

View in Venice, Canaletti.

Venus and Adonis, Rubens.

A Dutch lover, Jan Stein.

A view near Harlem, Ruysdale.

Presentation of Christ, Rembrant.

Miraculous draught of fishes, Teniers.

John Steen playing on a violin, himself.

Head, Hans Holbein.

Toilette, Metzu.

Drawing Room.

Temple of Delphos, Pietro de Cortona.

A retreat, Bourgognone.

Woman taken in adultery, Pordenoni.

Dead game, Fyt.

Field of battle, Bourgognone.

Diogenes, Salvator Rosa.

Landscape, Gaspar Pousin.

Dutchmen, Le Duck.

Boors drinking, Ostade.

Landscape, Gaspar Pousin.

Boys at cards, Morellio.