woollen in articles of dress. In the "Spectator" there is more than one notice of D'Oyley's warehouse. "If D'Oyley," says one of the papers, "had not by his ingenious inventions enabled us to dress our wives and daughters in cheap stuffs, we should not have had the means to have carried on the war." Again (No. 319) we find, in a letter signed Will. Sprightly: "A few months after, I brought up the modish jacket, or the coat with close sleeves. I struck this at first in a plain D'Oyley; but that failing, I struck it a second time in blue camlet, and repeated the stroke in several kinds of cloth, until at last it took effect: there are always two or three young fellows at the other end of the town, who have always their eye upon me, and answer me stroke for stroke." In Vanburgh's play, "The Provoked Wife," Lady Fanciful, pointing to Lady Brute and Belinda, observes, "I fear those D'Oyley stuffs are not worn for the want of better clothes." In the middle of the last century, it was the fashion for smart gentlemen, belonging to the Inns of Court, to breakfast at the neighbouring coffeehouse, in caps and loose morning-dresses procured at D'Oyley's warehouse. The name has been preserved in our own time by the napkins used at dessert, which were doubtless originally sold at D'Oyley's warehouse.

Passing by Somerset House, which we shall reserve for a separate notice, we find ourselves at the corner of Arundel Street, the site of the princely mansion and beautiful garden of the Earls

of Arundel and Dukes of Norfolk. Gay writes in his "Trivia:"

Come, Fortescue, sincere, experienced friend,

Thy briefs, thy deeds, and even thy fees suspend;
Come, let us leave the Temple's silent walls,
Me business to my distant lodging calls;
Through the long Strand together let us stray;
With thee conversing, I forget the way.
Behold that narrow street which steep descends,
Whose building to the slimy shore extends;
Here Arundel's famed structure reared its frame;
The street alone retains the empty name.
Where Titian's glowing paint the canvas warmed,
And Raphael's fair design with judgment charmed,
Now hangs the Bellman's song, and pasted here
The coloured prints of Overton appear;

Where statues breathed,-the works of Phidias' hands,—
A wooden pump, or lonely watch-house stands.

Arundel House was originally known as Bath's Inn, from having been the London residence of the Bishops of Bath and Wells. In the reign of Edward the Sixth, his uncle, the celebrated Lord Seymour of Sudeley, contrived to obtain possession of it; and, as Stow informs us, he "new builded the house." It was at this period known as Seymour Place. Here was the scene where Lord Seymour hatched his ambitious and treasonable intrigues, and also where he carried on his strange and indecent dalliance with the young Princess, afterwards Queen Elizabeth, whom he had contrived to place under his own guardianship at Seymour Place, and whose hand it was his object to obtain.

After the execution of Lord Seymour, his palace

in the Strand reverted to the Crown, from which it was purchased by Henry Fitz-Alan, Earl of Arundel, and henceforward obtained the name of Arundel House. Here it was that Thomas, the twentieth Earl, deposited his famous collection of antiquities which he had brought from Italy, now so well known as the Arundel Marbles. This nobleman is commonly described as a learned, reserved, and dignified personage, the Mæcenas of sculptors and painters, and devotedly attached to literature and the fine arts. If we are to place credit, however, in the testimony of his contemporary, the great Lord Clarendon, he was a mere impostor. "He was a man," says the noble historian, "supercilious and proud, who lived always within himself, and to himself. He resorted sometimes to the Court, because there only was a greater man than himself; and went thither the seldomer, because there was a greater man than himself. It cannot be denied," adds Lord Clarendon, "that he had in his person, in his aspect, and countenance the appearance of a great man, which he preserved in his gait and motion. He wore and affected a habit very different from that of the time, such as men had only beheld in the pictures of the most considerable men; all which drew the eyes of most, and the reverence of many, towards him, as the image and representative of the primitive nobility, and native gravity of the nobles, when they had been most venerable but this was only his outside, his nature

and true humour being so much disposed to vulgar delights, which, indeed, were very despicable and childish." Hay, Earl of Carlisle, observed of him: "Here comes the Earl of Arundel, in his plain stuff and trunk-hose, and his beard in his teeth, that looks more like a nobleman than any of us." It was a saying of Lord Arundel, that unless a person had some taste for the arts he would never make an honest man. The famous Arundel collection of marbles was sold and dispersed shortly before the demolition of Arundel House, in 1678: a portion of them, however, is still preserved at Oxford.

It was in Arundel House that the Countess of Nottingham-whose name is so unenviably associated with the tragical fate of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex-breathed her last on the 25th of February 1603. Here the Duc de Sully was for some time lodged, on the occasion of his embassy to England in the reign of James the First; and here, too, the Royal Society at one time held their meetings.

Between Essex Street and Temple Bar stood Essex House, the residence of the ill-fated Earl of Essex. It was originally called Exeter House, from having been the mansion of the Bishops of Exeter; but having been deserted by them in the reign of Henry the Sixth, became subsequently the residence of William Lord Paget, from whose successors it passed into the hands of Thomas Duke of Norfolk, and was styled Norfolk House. The next possessor was Elizabeth's unprincipled favourite,

Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, who bequeathed it to his illegitimate son, Sir Robert Dudley, from whom it was purchased by the Earl of Essex. Stow informs us that it was successively styled Exeter House, Paget House, Leicester House, and Essex House.

Spenser, the poet, appears to have been an honoured guest at Essex House during the life-time of Leicester, and, in his "Prothalamion," published in 1596, celebrates it as having been successively the residence of the two princely favourites of Elizabeth,-Leicester and Essex :

Next whereunto there stands a stately place,
Where oft I gayned gifts and goodly grace
Of that good lord, which therein wont to dwell;
Whose want too well now feels my friendless case.

But, ah! here fits not well

Old woes, but joys, to tell

Against the bridal day, which is not long:

Sweet Thames! run softly till I end my song.

Yet therein now doth lodge a noble peer,

Great England's glory, and the world's wide wonder,
Whose dreadful name late through all Spain did thunder,
And Hercules' two Pillars, standing near,

Did make to quake and fear;

Fair branch of honour, flower of chivalry!

That fillest England with thy triumph's fame,
Joy have thou of thy noble victory.

Essex House is intimately associated with the treasonable designs and untimely fate of the headstrong Essex. Having been thwarted on every side during his government in Ireland; surrounded, moreover, by spies; and having had the misfortune of