The verse itself
which sums up the present complicated mittees for legislation—is sufficiently striking,
no poetical standard.
which sums up the present complicated mittees for legislation—is sufficiently striking,
no poetical standard.
Athenaeum - London - 1912a
but it is as well that we should be clear on
ences is certainly a characteristic of the No lawyer can deny that, whatever these the force of this agreement. The whole
present age. Commerce and invention rights and immunities were on the day subject is difficult; early Ecclesiastical
go their own wild way in language. The that Henry VII. was alive and dead,” to Courts were not courts of record—all we
hostile and often furious abuse and fix a point when the English Church was know of their procedure is derived from
opposition ” of which Mr. Smith speaks by common consent Catholic, they were the documents drawn up by litigants in
is not so much “ hard to withstand
unaltered at the accession of James I. -
a few famous cases, and we
futile and useless. We look to such books that is, that the Ecclesia Anglicana in the likely to learn much more of them than
as this to improve the standard of English, only sense in which it ever had a legal we know now-still, we are thankful to
and to suggest to a public which is some-existence has had
existence has had a continuous one.
Mr. Ogle for a very clear and simple
what dazed, perhaps, by the flattering
Maitland's arguments were directed not criticism of Maitland's brilliant and stimu-
recital of its new powers and opportunities, to this point, but to the denial that there lating excursion into a part of our history
that it has a good deal to learn.
was any considerable body of Canon Law which has remained for centuries almost a
peculiar to English Ecclesiastical Courts. sealed book. Doubtless Mr. Ogle will be
He himself pointed out a number of answered by some of Maitland's followers.
The Canon Law in Mediæval England. By importance, while Mr. Ogle devotes much discussion of a purely historical question
divergences, of which he minimized the In the meantime it may be hoped that the
Arthur Ogle. (John Murray. )
space to emphasizing them. In this we will not
will not be complicated by modern
It is, perhaps, to be regretted that an think he is right. Canon Law has its basis political issues.
historical problem should be raised in the in Christian ethics and principles of Roman
discussion of Disestablishment in Wales jurisprudence, and many of the decretals
which, it is patent, will be settled on quite of the Roman Pontiffs are, on the face of
different considerations; and the publica- them, mere statements of what these FLEET STREET AND THE STRAND.
tion of such a clear and well-written con- involve in the particular case submitted MR. CHANCELLOR may consider himself
tribution to the study of the problem as
to them. When we put on
fortunate in that he is the first in the field
Mr. Ogle has given hardly consoles us for questions of property in its public aspect, in the separate treatment of the history
the spectacle of well-intentioned poli- with which English law did not allow the of two such important streets as Fleet
ticians and others quoting dicta of which Church to interfere, and matters
they understand neither the force nor the public policy, where writs of prohibition Street and the Strand. Much, of course,
this: prevented the Ecclesiastical Courts from thoroughfare stretching from the City .
Stubbs made certain statements as to coming to any decision, we have very walls to Charing Cross, but no distinct
the authority of Canon Law in English little left on which to found a separate volumes have previously been devoted
pre-Reformation Church Courts ; Maitland code. Maitland complains, for example
, to the registration of the varied occur-
thought that these were over-statements that there was no English marriage law :
rences and associations connected with it.
of fact, and quoted Bishop Lyndwood, naturally, one would think, since there
Boswell obtained Johnson's agreement
an English fifteenth-century canonist, to no English, but only Christian
prove that these courts were absolutely marriage. We have now
to his assertion that Fleet Street was more
an English
bound by every part of Canon Law. He marriage law, with the fantastic result delightful than Tempe, although the
then went on to deduce-or his inter- that a man may be legally married to grounds of comparison between the two
preters deduce for him—that,
are not very evident; and Lord Beacons-
three women in as many
as English
different countries.
Church Courts after the Reformation are Mr. Ogle's treatment of Maitland's field declared that the Strand was the
admittedly not absolutely bound by Canon attack on the position of Stubbs as to
finest street in Europe. Charles Lamb's.
Law, the post - Reformation Church of the authority of Canon Law in English The Annals of Fleet Street ; its Traditions and
England is not the same body as the courts errs, if anything, on the side of
Associations. By E. Beresford Chancellor.
pre-Reformation Ecclesia Anglicana. Now under-statement. The use of, and the
(Chapman & Hall. )
no one will suspect us of disrespect to so unconscious connotations implied by, such The Annals of the Strand, Topographical and
famous a scholar as Maitland when we 'terms as "absolutely binding statute law Historical. (Same author and publishers. )
was
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exclamation, “I often shed tears in the It has now been restored by the London Chancellor Earl of Beaumont), ambassador
County Council as far as possible to its to this country from France. The famous
much life," however, enlists our sym- original state as the office of the Duchy of Rosny, afterwards Duc de Sully, who
pathy more thoroughly, and makes us Cornwall under Henry, Prince of Wales. came to England in 1603 as Ambassador
feel its true influence in spite of its The charming Temple, with its beautiful Extraordinary to James I. , resided in
narrowness and want of grandeur. round church-one of London's greatest this house for a few days until Arundel
Both streets are ancient as roads, but assets—would alone give distinction to House was ready for his reception.
Fleet Street takes priority from being the Fleet Street, but there is much more of Butcher Row and its neighbourhood
natural outgrowth of the City, as one of great historical interest. The two came to be filled with disreputable inhabi-
the suburbs that gradually grew up churches in Fleet Street, St. Dunstan's tants, and was cleared away in 1813, when
outside the walls, and extended from the and St. Bride's, are described in a separate the considerable improvements advocated
various gates into the country beyond chapter.
by Alderman Pickett were carried out;
until they were included within the City The memory of the old Friary of the but Pickett Street was itself destroyed
jurisdiction as “the Liberties. " The Carmelites, or White Friars, has been when the fresh clearance of the site of
Strand was for some centuries merely a almost wiped out of existence, but the the new Law Courts was undertaken.
road for heavy traffic, lined on the south privilege of sanctuary which it possessed Of the early history of this east end of
side with the offices and stables attached
was continued to the inhabitants of the the Strand there is stiil much to be learnt,
to the mansions built on the banks of the precinct after the Dissolution. In conse-
and we may some day be able to explain
Thames. Its name is apparently much quence the place was named Alsatia, as the old tenure of the Forge of the farrier
more ancient than that of Fleet Street, as being one of the most dangerous places of the Strand, by the terms of which the
it was obtained long before any houses in London, where fraudulent debtors, Sheriffs of London still pay the yearly
were built there. Fleet Street takes its name gamblers, and the outcasts of society rent of six horseshoes and nails. The
from the time when the Fleet ditch (now gathered as to a favoured retreat. Mac- history of St. Clement's parish is illus-
a sewer) was really a navigable river.
aulay pictures it with vivid language in trated by a passage in Strype's additions
Mr. Chancellor gives a good account of the third chapter of his History of to Stow's 'Survey (book iv. chap. vii. ),
Fleet Street and its inhabitants, as well England. ' The baneful “privilege was quoted from information given by Re-
as the streets on the north and the south; abolished in 1697, but it was many years corder Fleetwood to Lord Burghley, to
but the varied interests of the locality are
before the neighbourhood returned to the effect that those Danes married to
so considerable that he must have found the ranks of respectability. Whitefriars English women who were left in London
it difficult to compress all he had to say has lately been largely rebuilt, by which after the others were driven out of the
into a single volume. It is pleasing to means more room has been found for kingdom, were constrained to inhabit
read of the changes in the character of its newspaper offices and warehouses more between Westminster and Ludgate," and
inhabitants at different periods of its
or less connected with literature. The built a synagogue called Ecclesia Cle-
existence. At one time it was the head- old Whitefriars Theatre was built on the mentis Danorum. " This throws some
quarters of printers and booksellers, such site of the hall of the Friary, to be suc- light on the known fact that much of
as Wynkyn de Worde, Pynson, Berthelet, ceeded, first by the Salisbury Court Fleet Street belonged to the Abbey of
Robert and William Copland, and others. Theatre, and then by the Duke's Theatre Westminster. The open-air court held
Before 1502, when Pynson removed to
in Dorset Gardens. The old Blackfriars by the justices itinerant at the stone cross
the George, next St. Dunstan's Church, Theatre was also not far from Fleet Street. opposite what afterwards became Somerset
he lived in St. Clement's parish without
The chapter on the taverns and coffee - House proves the great antiquity of this
Temple Bar. In later times many famous
houses contains a full account of the district.
booksellers had shops in Fleet Street. various signs which were plentiful in this
We are glad to be able to recommend
Now the leading newspapers have taken district, but we must protest against the Mr. Chancellor's two volumes, as
the place of the book - producers.
misquotation in Herrick's apostrophe to taining a mass of interesting information
For many years Fleet Street exhibited
Ben Jonson. The author has the grace in a convenient form. Both books are
in a special degree one of the chief features to add, “The Dog' is sometimes printed arranged on a similar plan, and as relating
of a suburb—that of being one of the instead of the ' Cheese ""; but
it is hardly to
one connected thoroughfare, they
show-places of London for monsters, giants, necessary
to say that “Dog” is the only should be read together.
dwarfs, posture-makers, and fire-eaters.
known reading, and that there is no
Mrs. Salmon, the Madame Tussaud of evidence that Jonson knew of the existence
of “The Cheshire Cheese. "
AUTOGRAPH SALE.
her day, opened an exhibition of wax-
works in the reign of Queen Anne at simultaneously from both ends, Ludgate Mr. T. Toovey, the most important lotit breins
Fleet Street seems to have grown On Thursday, April 25th, Messrs. Sotheby sold
a collection of autograph letters, the property of
the Golden Salmon in St. Martin's near being the starting - place on the east, the following : Sir Thomas Boleybol detteur nts,
Aldersgate. The exhibition was removed
later in the eighteenth century to the as Temple Bar was on the west.
letter to James Howie, Dec. 20, 1786, 231. ;
latter formed a sort of special district
north side of Fleet Street, near Chancery
, of 'My ',
Lane, to a house which stood on the site round itself. A large number of houses letter to Dr. C. D. Clarke, June 17, 1813, 271. ;
of Anderton's Hotel. Here Mrs. Salmon grew up to the west of the Bar, which did another to John Hunt, Oct. 31, 1822, 311. Charles
died in 1760, and the waxworks were
not become a portion of the Strand until 1, letter to the Duke of York, Feb. 28,
1679,
251. 108. Oliver Cromwell, letter to Robert
continued under the old name by a surgeon
a comparatively recent period.
Bernard, Jan. 23, 1643, 2251. Dryden, letter to
of Chancery Lane named Clark, who
The frontispiece of ‘Old Temple Bar' his cousin Honor Dryden, probably written in
1655, 1051. Edward IV. , signed letter to the
purchased the collection. Another
(destroyed in the Fire of London) is a
Chancellor of the Duchy of Burgundy, 501.
moval took place in 1788 to No. 189, a
satisfactory addition to the Fleet Street Edward VI. , letter to Henri II. introducing the
house which was pulled down in 1795, and
book, as its appearance is not generally to Henri II1. about the Alençon marriage negotia-
known.
rebuilt for Praed's Bank. The widow of
tions, 2451. ; signed letter to Dr. Dale on the
same subject, March 15, 1573, 761. ; another to
the proprietor removed the exhibition In spite of the great historical interest Lord Willoughby, April 26, 1588, 311. ; letter
to the south side of the street (No. 17, of Fleet Street, the Strand may be con-
from Elizabeth's Privy Council to the Master
over Inner Temple Gate), and here the sidered its equal in this respect. Its 1579, 411. Henry VIII. , signed letter to Madame
and Wardens of the Drapers' Company, July 26,
collection of waxworks continued to be growth followed the same course as did de la Forte, 391. 108. ; sign manual to an order
exhibited by Mrs. Clark until 1816–17. that of the City street. The most fashion letter in French to Louis XIII. , July 18, 1812, 672.
Mrs. Salmon's name was omitted in these able portion during the seventeenth century James 1. , letter in French to Henri IV. , June 10,
later years. The house was long occupied was the district known as Temple Bar 1606; 621. Mary, Queen of Scots; signed letter to
as “ Carter's Hairdressing Saloons," with Without, and not then styled the Strand.
III. , sign manual on a warrant to W. Catesby, 491.
this remarkable statement inscribed on Under the shadow of the Bar was a hand- Earl of Strafford, letter to his sister, Sept. 11,
the front : Formerly the Palace of some building inhabited by Christopher
1836, 571. Cardinal Wolsey, signed letter of credit
to the ambassadors at Calais, probably written in
King Henry VIII. and Cardinal Wolsey. " 'Harley, Comte Beaumont (called by Mr. 1520, 441. The total of the sale was 2,4741. 58.
con-
re-
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of the prosperous and Evangelical Clapham who are undergoing a thorough course of Roman Senators, also on three Leges, which
families. Mr. P. M. Thornton's reminis- training ; on the other hand, it may be give him occasion to reply to our criticism
cences will chiefly appeal to Harrovians and seized upon as a cram-book by the many of his last book. Of the various textual
lovers of sport at Cambridge in the sixties, who seek not knowledge, but a short cut to notes and interpretations, the most striking
though he gives also some social and literary a diploma.
is Prof. Cook Wilson's connexion of öyalja.
reminiscences of the eighties, and later
with eyalde bal as a thing to be proud of.
experiences in the House of Commons. Dunlop (0. Jocelyn) and Denman (R.
ences is certainly a characteristic of the No lawyer can deny that, whatever these the force of this agreement. The whole
present age. Commerce and invention rights and immunities were on the day subject is difficult; early Ecclesiastical
go their own wild way in language. The that Henry VII. was alive and dead,” to Courts were not courts of record—all we
hostile and often furious abuse and fix a point when the English Church was know of their procedure is derived from
opposition ” of which Mr. Smith speaks by common consent Catholic, they were the documents drawn up by litigants in
is not so much “ hard to withstand
unaltered at the accession of James I. -
a few famous cases, and we
futile and useless. We look to such books that is, that the Ecclesia Anglicana in the likely to learn much more of them than
as this to improve the standard of English, only sense in which it ever had a legal we know now-still, we are thankful to
and to suggest to a public which is some-existence has had
existence has had a continuous one.
Mr. Ogle for a very clear and simple
what dazed, perhaps, by the flattering
Maitland's arguments were directed not criticism of Maitland's brilliant and stimu-
recital of its new powers and opportunities, to this point, but to the denial that there lating excursion into a part of our history
that it has a good deal to learn.
was any considerable body of Canon Law which has remained for centuries almost a
peculiar to English Ecclesiastical Courts. sealed book. Doubtless Mr. Ogle will be
He himself pointed out a number of answered by some of Maitland's followers.
The Canon Law in Mediæval England. By importance, while Mr. Ogle devotes much discussion of a purely historical question
divergences, of which he minimized the In the meantime it may be hoped that the
Arthur Ogle. (John Murray. )
space to emphasizing them. In this we will not
will not be complicated by modern
It is, perhaps, to be regretted that an think he is right. Canon Law has its basis political issues.
historical problem should be raised in the in Christian ethics and principles of Roman
discussion of Disestablishment in Wales jurisprudence, and many of the decretals
which, it is patent, will be settled on quite of the Roman Pontiffs are, on the face of
different considerations; and the publica- them, mere statements of what these FLEET STREET AND THE STRAND.
tion of such a clear and well-written con- involve in the particular case submitted MR. CHANCELLOR may consider himself
tribution to the study of the problem as
to them. When we put on
fortunate in that he is the first in the field
Mr. Ogle has given hardly consoles us for questions of property in its public aspect, in the separate treatment of the history
the spectacle of well-intentioned poli- with which English law did not allow the of two such important streets as Fleet
ticians and others quoting dicta of which Church to interfere, and matters
they understand neither the force nor the public policy, where writs of prohibition Street and the Strand. Much, of course,
this: prevented the Ecclesiastical Courts from thoroughfare stretching from the City .
Stubbs made certain statements as to coming to any decision, we have very walls to Charing Cross, but no distinct
the authority of Canon Law in English little left on which to found a separate volumes have previously been devoted
pre-Reformation Church Courts ; Maitland code. Maitland complains, for example
, to the registration of the varied occur-
thought that these were over-statements that there was no English marriage law :
rences and associations connected with it.
of fact, and quoted Bishop Lyndwood, naturally, one would think, since there
Boswell obtained Johnson's agreement
an English fifteenth-century canonist, to no English, but only Christian
prove that these courts were absolutely marriage. We have now
to his assertion that Fleet Street was more
an English
bound by every part of Canon Law. He marriage law, with the fantastic result delightful than Tempe, although the
then went on to deduce-or his inter- that a man may be legally married to grounds of comparison between the two
preters deduce for him—that,
are not very evident; and Lord Beacons-
three women in as many
as English
different countries.
Church Courts after the Reformation are Mr. Ogle's treatment of Maitland's field declared that the Strand was the
admittedly not absolutely bound by Canon attack on the position of Stubbs as to
finest street in Europe. Charles Lamb's.
Law, the post - Reformation Church of the authority of Canon Law in English The Annals of Fleet Street ; its Traditions and
England is not the same body as the courts errs, if anything, on the side of
Associations. By E. Beresford Chancellor.
pre-Reformation Ecclesia Anglicana. Now under-statement. The use of, and the
(Chapman & Hall. )
no one will suspect us of disrespect to so unconscious connotations implied by, such The Annals of the Strand, Topographical and
famous a scholar as Maitland when we 'terms as "absolutely binding statute law Historical. (Same author and publishers. )
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exclamation, “I often shed tears in the It has now been restored by the London Chancellor Earl of Beaumont), ambassador
County Council as far as possible to its to this country from France. The famous
much life," however, enlists our sym- original state as the office of the Duchy of Rosny, afterwards Duc de Sully, who
pathy more thoroughly, and makes us Cornwall under Henry, Prince of Wales. came to England in 1603 as Ambassador
feel its true influence in spite of its The charming Temple, with its beautiful Extraordinary to James I. , resided in
narrowness and want of grandeur. round church-one of London's greatest this house for a few days until Arundel
Both streets are ancient as roads, but assets—would alone give distinction to House was ready for his reception.
Fleet Street takes priority from being the Fleet Street, but there is much more of Butcher Row and its neighbourhood
natural outgrowth of the City, as one of great historical interest. The two came to be filled with disreputable inhabi-
the suburbs that gradually grew up churches in Fleet Street, St. Dunstan's tants, and was cleared away in 1813, when
outside the walls, and extended from the and St. Bride's, are described in a separate the considerable improvements advocated
various gates into the country beyond chapter.
by Alderman Pickett were carried out;
until they were included within the City The memory of the old Friary of the but Pickett Street was itself destroyed
jurisdiction as “the Liberties. " The Carmelites, or White Friars, has been when the fresh clearance of the site of
Strand was for some centuries merely a almost wiped out of existence, but the the new Law Courts was undertaken.
road for heavy traffic, lined on the south privilege of sanctuary which it possessed Of the early history of this east end of
side with the offices and stables attached
was continued to the inhabitants of the the Strand there is stiil much to be learnt,
to the mansions built on the banks of the precinct after the Dissolution. In conse-
and we may some day be able to explain
Thames. Its name is apparently much quence the place was named Alsatia, as the old tenure of the Forge of the farrier
more ancient than that of Fleet Street, as being one of the most dangerous places of the Strand, by the terms of which the
it was obtained long before any houses in London, where fraudulent debtors, Sheriffs of London still pay the yearly
were built there. Fleet Street takes its name gamblers, and the outcasts of society rent of six horseshoes and nails. The
from the time when the Fleet ditch (now gathered as to a favoured retreat. Mac- history of St. Clement's parish is illus-
a sewer) was really a navigable river.
aulay pictures it with vivid language in trated by a passage in Strype's additions
Mr. Chancellor gives a good account of the third chapter of his History of to Stow's 'Survey (book iv. chap. vii. ),
Fleet Street and its inhabitants, as well England. ' The baneful “privilege was quoted from information given by Re-
as the streets on the north and the south; abolished in 1697, but it was many years corder Fleetwood to Lord Burghley, to
but the varied interests of the locality are
before the neighbourhood returned to the effect that those Danes married to
so considerable that he must have found the ranks of respectability. Whitefriars English women who were left in London
it difficult to compress all he had to say has lately been largely rebuilt, by which after the others were driven out of the
into a single volume. It is pleasing to means more room has been found for kingdom, were constrained to inhabit
read of the changes in the character of its newspaper offices and warehouses more between Westminster and Ludgate," and
inhabitants at different periods of its
or less connected with literature. The built a synagogue called Ecclesia Cle-
existence. At one time it was the head- old Whitefriars Theatre was built on the mentis Danorum. " This throws some
quarters of printers and booksellers, such site of the hall of the Friary, to be suc- light on the known fact that much of
as Wynkyn de Worde, Pynson, Berthelet, ceeded, first by the Salisbury Court Fleet Street belonged to the Abbey of
Robert and William Copland, and others. Theatre, and then by the Duke's Theatre Westminster. The open-air court held
Before 1502, when Pynson removed to
in Dorset Gardens. The old Blackfriars by the justices itinerant at the stone cross
the George, next St. Dunstan's Church, Theatre was also not far from Fleet Street. opposite what afterwards became Somerset
he lived in St. Clement's parish without
The chapter on the taverns and coffee - House proves the great antiquity of this
Temple Bar. In later times many famous
houses contains a full account of the district.
booksellers had shops in Fleet Street. various signs which were plentiful in this
We are glad to be able to recommend
Now the leading newspapers have taken district, but we must protest against the Mr. Chancellor's two volumes, as
the place of the book - producers.
misquotation in Herrick's apostrophe to taining a mass of interesting information
For many years Fleet Street exhibited
Ben Jonson. The author has the grace in a convenient form. Both books are
in a special degree one of the chief features to add, “The Dog' is sometimes printed arranged on a similar plan, and as relating
of a suburb—that of being one of the instead of the ' Cheese ""; but
it is hardly to
one connected thoroughfare, they
show-places of London for monsters, giants, necessary
to say that “Dog” is the only should be read together.
dwarfs, posture-makers, and fire-eaters.
known reading, and that there is no
Mrs. Salmon, the Madame Tussaud of evidence that Jonson knew of the existence
of “The Cheshire Cheese. "
AUTOGRAPH SALE.
her day, opened an exhibition of wax-
works in the reign of Queen Anne at simultaneously from both ends, Ludgate Mr. T. Toovey, the most important lotit breins
Fleet Street seems to have grown On Thursday, April 25th, Messrs. Sotheby sold
a collection of autograph letters, the property of
the Golden Salmon in St. Martin's near being the starting - place on the east, the following : Sir Thomas Boleybol detteur nts,
Aldersgate. The exhibition was removed
later in the eighteenth century to the as Temple Bar was on the west.
letter to James Howie, Dec. 20, 1786, 231. ;
latter formed a sort of special district
north side of Fleet Street, near Chancery
, of 'My ',
Lane, to a house which stood on the site round itself. A large number of houses letter to Dr. C. D. Clarke, June 17, 1813, 271. ;
of Anderton's Hotel. Here Mrs. Salmon grew up to the west of the Bar, which did another to John Hunt, Oct. 31, 1822, 311. Charles
died in 1760, and the waxworks were
not become a portion of the Strand until 1, letter to the Duke of York, Feb. 28,
1679,
251. 108. Oliver Cromwell, letter to Robert
continued under the old name by a surgeon
a comparatively recent period.
Bernard, Jan. 23, 1643, 2251. Dryden, letter to
of Chancery Lane named Clark, who
The frontispiece of ‘Old Temple Bar' his cousin Honor Dryden, probably written in
1655, 1051. Edward IV. , signed letter to the
purchased the collection. Another
(destroyed in the Fire of London) is a
Chancellor of the Duchy of Burgundy, 501.
moval took place in 1788 to No. 189, a
satisfactory addition to the Fleet Street Edward VI. , letter to Henri II. introducing the
house which was pulled down in 1795, and
book, as its appearance is not generally to Henri II1. about the Alençon marriage negotia-
known.
rebuilt for Praed's Bank. The widow of
tions, 2451. ; signed letter to Dr. Dale on the
same subject, March 15, 1573, 761. ; another to
the proprietor removed the exhibition In spite of the great historical interest Lord Willoughby, April 26, 1588, 311. ; letter
to the south side of the street (No. 17, of Fleet Street, the Strand may be con-
from Elizabeth's Privy Council to the Master
over Inner Temple Gate), and here the sidered its equal in this respect. Its 1579, 411. Henry VIII. , signed letter to Madame
and Wardens of the Drapers' Company, July 26,
collection of waxworks continued to be growth followed the same course as did de la Forte, 391. 108. ; sign manual to an order
exhibited by Mrs. Clark until 1816–17. that of the City street. The most fashion letter in French to Louis XIII. , July 18, 1812, 672.
Mrs. Salmon's name was omitted in these able portion during the seventeenth century James 1. , letter in French to Henri IV. , June 10,
later years. The house was long occupied was the district known as Temple Bar 1606; 621. Mary, Queen of Scots; signed letter to
as “ Carter's Hairdressing Saloons," with Without, and not then styled the Strand.
III. , sign manual on a warrant to W. Catesby, 491.
this remarkable statement inscribed on Under the shadow of the Bar was a hand- Earl of Strafford, letter to his sister, Sept. 11,
the front : Formerly the Palace of some building inhabited by Christopher
1836, 571. Cardinal Wolsey, signed letter of credit
to the ambassadors at Calais, probably written in
King Henry VIII. and Cardinal Wolsey. " 'Harley, Comte Beaumont (called by Mr. 1520, 441. The total of the sale was 2,4741. 58.
con-
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sequence & prejudice may be raised, which admirably thorough survey, with full par- HAVE REMEMBERED: SAMUEL THORN-
the reader of the book will discover to be ticulars of a large number of houses, the TON,
ADMIRAL, 1797-1859; PERCY
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Longmans
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author's point of view explained in a preface. dition of Repair, Historical Notes' (con- offers a host of details concerning the
Some of the chief influences that have made taining lists of inhabitants), ' Bibliographical Thornton family and its connexions, which
the history of London are discussed in the References,' 'Old Prints, Views, &c.
include many notable stocks and persons.
various chapters shortly and effectively. Such a rigid examination of any London To Admiral Thornton's record is added that
The first two chapters deal with London mansions would be of great value, but in of some of his companions at sea.
His
before the Conquest, and under the Norman view of the importance of some of the houses, father was a Governor of the Bank of
kings; then come notices of the Granting such as Sir John Soane's Museum, the Royal England, M. P. for several years, like the
of the Commune, the Rise of the Crafts, ' College of Surgeons, Lindsey House, and author of this book, and a good specimen
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of the prosperous and Evangelical Clapham who are undergoing a thorough course of Roman Senators, also on three Leges, which
families. Mr. P. M. Thornton's reminis- training ; on the other hand, it may be give him occasion to reply to our criticism
cences will chiefly appeal to Harrovians and seized upon as a cram-book by the many of his last book. Of the various textual
lovers of sport at Cambridge in the sixties, who seek not knowledge, but a short cut to notes and interpretations, the most striking
though he gives also some social and literary a diploma.
is Prof. Cook Wilson's connexion of öyalja.
reminiscences of the eighties, and later
with eyalde bal as a thing to be proud of.
experiences in the House of Commons. Dunlop (0. Jocelyn) and Denman (R.
