Chapter VII: A Committee is appointed, to consist of thirty Guardians, who are (2)

BELSYSE, in Middlesex, is situated on the south west side of Hampstead
hill, and was a fine seat belonging to the Lord Wotton, and afterwards
to the late Earl of Chesterfield: but in the year 1720, it was
converted into a place of polite entertainment, particularly for
music, dancing, and play, when it was much frequented on account of
its neighbourhood to London: but since that time it has been suffered
to run to ruin.

BELVEDERE HOUSE, this belongs to Sampson Gideon, Esq; is situated on the
brow of a hill, near Erith in Kent, and commands a vast extent of a
fine country many miles beyond the Thames, which is about a mile and
half distant. This river and navigation add greatly to the beauty of
this scene, which exhibits to the eye of the delighted spectator, as
pleasing a landskip of the kind as imagination can form. The
innumerable ships employed in the immense trade of London, are beheld
continually sailing up and down the river. On the other side are
prospects not less beautiful, tho’ of another kind. This gentleman has
very judiciously laid out his grounds, and made many beautiful vistas.
The house is but small, tho’ an addition has been made of a very noble
room; this and two others are finely furnish’d with pictures, of which
follows a catalogue. The collection, though not numerous, is very
valuable, it containing none but pieces which are originals by the
greatest masters, and some of them very capital.

In the Long Parlour.

│ Height.│ Breadth.│Painted by
│ Feet Inc.│ Feet Inc.│

View of Venice │ │ │

Ditto, with the Doge│ 2.│ 4 6│_Canaletti._
marrying the sea │ │ │

Its companion │ │ │

Time bringing truth │ 2 5│ 3 0│_Rubens._
to light, a sketch│ │ │

The Alchymist │ 3 1│ 4 2│_Teniers._

Portrait of Sir John│ 3 1│ 2 7│_Holbein._
Gage │ │ │

A landskip │ 2 0│ 2 4│_G. Poussin._

Battle of the │ 1 1│ 1 6│_Rottenhammer._
Amazons │ │ │

The unjust Steward │ 2 7│ 4 6│_Quintin Matsys._

In the Lobby.

Noah’s Ark │ 1 9│ 2 10│_Velvet Brughel._

St. Catherine │ 2 6│ 2 0│_Leonardo da Vinci._

Van Trump │ 2 10│ 2 4│_Francis Hals._

Vulcan, or the │ 4 6│ 5 9│_Bassan._
element of Fire │ │ │

A picture of horses,│ 1 8│ 1 4│_Wouverman._
its companion │ │ │

Two insides of │ 0 0│ 0 0│_De Neef._
churches, small │ │ │

A Dutch woman and │ 1 9│ 1 6│_Sir Ant. More._
her three children│ │ │

Rembrant painting an│ 2 10│ 2 0│_by himself._
old woman │ │ │

A courtezan and her │ 2 4│ 2 4│_Giorgione._
gallant │ │ │

The golden age │ 2 0│ 3 2│_Velvet Brughel._

Snyders with his │ 5 4│ 4 0│_Rubens._
wife and child │ │ │

Rebecca bringing │ 4 6│ 3 2│_De la Hyre._
presents to Laban │ │ │

Boors at cards │ 2 0│ 2 0│_Teniers._

The element of Earth│ 4 6│ 5 9│_Jai. Bassan._

Marriage in Cana of │ 4 0│ 5 0│_P. Veronese._
Gallilee │ │ │

Two landskips │ 2 0│ 3 2│_G. Poussin._

The genealogy of │ 3 0│ 2 3│_Albert Durer._
Christ │ │ │

Beggar boys at cards│ 2 0│ 1 4│_Salvator Rosa._

Herod consulting the│ 1 4│ 2 8│_Rembrant._
wisemen │ │ │

Marriage of St. │ 2 8│ 3 2│_Old Palma._
Catherine │ │ │

two fine bas │ │ │_by Soldani_
relievos in brass,│ │ │
one Bacchus and │ │ │
Ariadne, the other│ │ │
Ceres teaching │ │ │
Triptolemus the │ │ │
use of the plough │ │ │

In the Saloon.

The conception, │ 7 8│ 7 8│_Murillo._
painted for an │ │ │
altar piece │ │ │

The flight into │ │ │_Ditto._
Egypt, its │ │ │
companion │ │ │

Vulcan, Venus, │ 5 6│ 8 4│_Tintoret._
Cupid, and sundry │ │ │

figures, an │ │ │
emblematic subject│ │ │

Mars and Venus │ 5 8│ 4 3│_P. Veronese._

Christ among the │ 5 2│ 6 6│_L. Giordano._
Doctors │ │ │

Duke of Buckingham’s│ 5 8│ 5 6│_by himself._
mistress, her │ │ │

three children, and │ │ │
a son of Rubens │ │ │

A landskip │ 4 10│ 6 2│_Claude._

Leopold’s gallery │ │ │_Teniers._

Teniers, own │ 3 2│ 4 2│_Ditto._
gallery, its │ │ │
companion │ │ │

BEMBRIDGE’S _rents_, Moor lane, Moorfields.†

BEMBRIDGE _street_, St Giles’s pound.†

BEN _court_, Grub street.†

BENJAMIN _street_. 1. Cow cross.† 2. Longditch, Westminster.† 3. Red
Lion street, Clerkenwell.† 4. Swallow street.†

_St._ BENNET FINK, was dedicated to St. Benedict, vulgarly called St.
Bennet, an Italian saint, the founder of the order of Benedictine
monks; and received the additional name of _Fink_ from its rebuilder
Robert Fink. It is situated on the south side of Thread-needle-street.
The old church being destroyed in the general conflagration in 1666,
the present edifice was erected in its room. The body is of an
irregular form, enlightened by large arched windows, which reach to
the roof; this is incompassed with a balustrade, and crowned with a
lantern: a dome rises upon the whole extent of the tower, and on its
top rises a turret.

This church is a curacy in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of
Windsor, who generally supply it with one of their own Canons. The
Curate receives 100_l._ a year in lieu of tithes.

_St._ BENNET’S _Gracechurch street_, is situated at the south west
corner of Fenchurch street. The old church being much damaged by the
fire in 1666, was taken down, and the present structure erected in its
place, which is built principally of stone, and is a regular,
convenient, and neat edifice, without the expence of columns and
porticos. It has a handsome balustrade at the top, and a very high
spire of the obelisk kind, the base of which is supported by four
porticos.

This church is a rectory in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of
St. Paul’s; and the parish of St. Leonard Eastcheap is annexed to it.
The Rector receives 140_l._ a year in lieu of tithes.

_St._ BENNET’S _Paul’s Wharf_, is so called from its being consecrated
to St. Benedict, and its vicinity to that wharf. It is situated at the
south west corner of St. Bennet’s hill, and the old church being
destroyed by the fire of London in 1666, this was erected in its
place, from a design of Sir Christopher Wren. It is a neat structure;
the body is well proportioned: the tower has rustic corners, and its
turret and small spire are raised from the crown of a dome.

This church is a rectory, the collation to which is in the Dean and
Chapter of St. Paul’s. The parish of St. Peter Paul’s Wharf is united
to it, and the Rector receives 100_l._ a year in lieu of tithes.

_St_. BENNET’S _Sherehog_, stood opposite to St. Sythe’s lane, in St.
Pancras lane, and in the ward of Cheap. In the year 1323, it went by
the name of St. Osyth, from its being dedicated to a queen and martyr
of that name; but she was divested of the tutelage of this church, by
Benedict Shorne, a fishmonger of London, who was a rebuilder,
repairer, or benefactor to it; and Shorne his surname, being corrupted
into Shrog, was at last converted into Sherehog. This church sharing
the common fate of the general conflagration in 1666, and not being
rebuilt, the parish was annexed to that of St. Stephen’s Walbrook.
_Newc. Rep. Eccl. Paroch._

BENNET _street_, a short street, westward into Arlington street,
Piccadilly.

BENNET’S BRIDGE _lane_, Upper Ground street, Southwark.†

BENNET’S _court_. 1. Beggars hill, Southwark.† 2. Canon row.† 3. Drury
lane.† 4. Limehouse causeway.† 5. Long lane, Southwark.† 6. The
Strand.† 7. White street.†

BENNET’S _hill_, Thames street, thus named from the church of St.
Bennet’s Paul’s Wharf.

BENNET’S _street_. 1. Longditch.† 2. Near the Upper ground, Southwark.†
3. St. James’s street.†

BENNET’S _yard_, near Tufton street.†

BENSON’S _alley_, Shoreditch.†

BENTINCK _street_, Berwick street.

BERKHAMSTED, an ancient town in Hertfordshire, situated 30 miles to the
N. W. of London. It was anciently a Roman town, and here some of the
Saxon kings kept their court. William the Conqueror here swore to the
nobility to preserve the laws made by his predecessors; and here Henry
II. kept his court, and granted the town all the laws and liberties it
had enjoyed under Edward the Confessor. It was a borough in the reign
of Henry III. and James I. to whose children this place was a nursery,
made it a corporation, by the name of the Bailiff and Burgesses of
Berkhamsted St. Peter; the Burgesses to be twelve, to chuse a
Recorder, and Town Clerk, to have a prison, _&c._ but in the next
reign it was so impoverished by the civil wars, that the government
was dropp’d, and has not been since renewed. Its market is also much
decayed. The town, though situated on the south side of a marsh,
extends itself far in a broad street, and handsome buildings, and is
pleasantly surrounded with high and hard ground, full of pastures,
hedgerows, and arable land. What remains of the castle, which is but
one third of it, was not long ago the seat of the Careys, and is now
the seat of the family of the Ropers. Here is a spacious church
dedicated to St. Peter, which has eleven of the Apostles on its
pillars, with a sentence of the creed on each, and on the twelfth
pillar is St. George killing the dragon. The other public buildings
are, a free school, which is a handsome brick structure, well endowed,
the King being patron, and the Warden of All Souls College in Oxford,
Visitor; and a handsome almshouse, built and endowed by Mr. John Sayer
and his wife, who gave 1300_l._ for that purpose.

BERKLEY SQUARE, near Hyde Park road, contains about three acres, and is
well built on the north, east and west sides.

The following is an account of the choice and valuable collection of
pictures and prints of John Barnard, Esq; at his house in Berkley
square.

A holy family, by Parmegiano, well preserved, and the characters very
fine. It was out of the Count de Platembourg’s collection at
Amsterdam.

A crucifixion, by Paulo Veronese, about three feet high; there is a
fine group of figures at bottom, and the figures on the cross are
remarkably well drawn.

Christ calling to Zaccheus; and the Angel appearing to St. John in the
wilderness; both by Paulo Veronese, in his finest manner and highest
colouring.

A præsepe, or nativity, by Jacomo Bassan; the light comes from the
child, and has a surprizing effect, being in his highest colouring.
These three last are upright narrow pictures, oval at top, and were
originally designed for some elegant little chapel.

Christ led to be crucified, by the same master; the colouring is the
richest; and the expression is much finer than one often sees of
Bassan.

Adam ploughing and Eve spinning, by Domenico Fetti: this picture is
finely coloured, and the character of Eve is prettier than can well be
expressed; it was in the collection of Monsieur Biberon at Paris, and
Monsieur Crozat mentions it in his work, along with two others of the
same subject, one of which belongs to the King of France.

A holy family, with a little St. John presenting a cross, by Guido.
This picture, which is but fifteen inches high, may be truly said to
be in his very finest manner; the characters of the Virgin and St.
Joseph are inexpressibly fine, and it is in the best preservation. It
was in the Duke de Tallard’s collection.

The martyrdom of a female saint, by Correggio. This picture came out
of the same collection as the last, and is much of the same size; it
is in his first manner, but yet visibly of his hand; the colouring and
some of the characters are fine. The Duke of Tallard had it out of the
collection of Monsieur Crozat, where it was always esteemed a true
picture of Correggio.

A holy family, with a little St. John presenting a dish of fruit, by
Simone da Pesaro, commonly called Cantarini, who was the best disciple
of Guido. The figures are half length as big as life. True pictures of
this master are very scarce in England, and this is one of his best,
and in the highest preservation.

The Virgin with the child in her lap, half length, as big as life, by
Vandyck. The character of the Virgin is as sweet, and the colouring as
fine, as any thing of this master’s painting. This was out of the
collection of Monsieur Biberon, and there is an old print of this
picture.

A holy family, by the same master. This is the small picture, but the
characters of the Virgin and child, and the sweetness and mellowness
of the colouring, are at least equal to the large one. There is a
print of this by Bolswert.

A head of St. Peter, with a fish in his hand, by Spagnoletto. The
expression and force in this picture are extremely great. There is a
mezzotinto print engraved after it by Mr. MacArdell.

Pharoah and his host drowned in the Red sea, about five feet wide, by
Valerio Castelli. The character of Moses is very great, and the
colouring throughout is remarkably fine.

The conversion of St. Paul, by Luca Jordano, with many figures and
horsemen, about six feet wide. This is one of his best, in the free
and spirited style, for which he was most famous.

A battle, by the same master, not quite so large. The composition in
this picture is better, and the figures seem more alive and in motion,
than in almost any battle pieces to be met with.

Tobit burying the dead, by Benedetto Castiglione, in the style of
Nicola Poussin, which master (in his latter time) he particularly
studied and imitated; and he succeeded therein so well, in this
picture, both in the composition and drawing, that was not his name
upon it, several of the best judges have declared, they should not
only have taken it for a true picture of that master, but also for a
very fine one of him.

A landskip, by Claude Lorrain, near four feet wide; the subject is a
warm evening; it is in the highest preservation, not in the least
turned black, and in his very finest taste and manner of painting: the
keeping, and that harmony and tenderness of tints, for which that
master was so famous, are remarkably conspicuous in this picture, and
the figures, which are but few, are much better than one generally
sees in his works.

A præsepe, by Pietro da Cortona: the composition and the harmony of
colours in this picture are very fine.

The entombing of Christ, by Federico Barocci: the dead body is rather
disagreeable, but some of the characters are very fine. This was out
of the Duke D’Auvergne’s collection at Paris.

The adoration of the Magi, by Rubens: this is only a sketch for a
large picture, yet it is so finished, that at a proper distance the
characters are as expressive, and the colouring as rich as in a
finish’d picture.

St. Thomas, who disbelieves putting his finger in the wound in
Christ’s side, by Michael Angelo Caravaggio. This is also a sketch,
but the dignity in the characters, and the fine large folds of
drapery, shew it to be the work of a great master. Mr. Barnard has a
print of this picture etch’d by the master himself, which is extremely
scarce.

The stoning of St. Stephen, by Filippo Lauri. Though the figures in
this picture are rather larger than those which are in his very best
manner, yet they are finely drawn, and the gaiety and beauty of the
colouring, together with the fine keeping observed in the distant
figures, make it a very pleasing and fine picture.

Christ’s agony in the garden, by the same master. The figures in this
are smaller than in the preceding; and the fine characters, and
correctness of drawing of the figures, joined to the beautiful
colouring, have always made this picture, though a very small one,
esteemed by the greatest judges as one of his best.

The same subject in a round, about a foot diameter, by Carlo Maratti;
the angels heads are fine, and the colouring pleasing. This picture
belonged to Mr. Jarvis the painter, who had a companion to it by the
same hand, the subject a dead Christ; he valued them very highly.

A holy family, by the same master, about one foot seven inches high;
this is painted in his best time and finest colouring.

A Silence, by Nicolo Poussin: the subject a landskip, the evening, in
which a little boy is running away with a Satyr’s musical instrument
as he lies asleep; other figures are lying and leaning in a reposed
manner. Though this picture is only about seventeen inches wide, and
the figures but small, yet they are as genteel, and as correctly
drawn, as in any of his finest pictures.

The woman taken in adultery, by Sebastian Ricci. The greatness of the
design the dignity and propriety of the characters, particularly the
woman, and the harmony of the colours, shew him to be (tho’ a modern
master) equal to most of the greatest that went before him.

Two misers counting and setting down their money; the same subject,
but with some variation as that at Windsor, by Quintin Matsys of
Antwerp, who repeated this picture several times.

An old man’s head with a ruff, painted by Rembrant. It is thought to
be the portrait of Ephraim Bonus the Physician, as it bears a great
resemblance to the print of him engraved by Rembrant himself, but in
the picture he is much older. The light and shade in this picture is
extremely fine. Mr. Houston, an excellent engraver in mezzotinto, has
engraved a very fine print after this picture.

A fine landskip with Tobit and the Angel, near three feet wide, by the
same master; the effect of colours in this picture is surprising.

A Magdalene’s head, by Guido.

An historical subject, a woman and three children, _&c._ by Solimene.
This is better coloured, and more finished, than one generally sees of
this master.

Angels holding a mitre over St. Ambrose, a finished sketch for a large
picture, by the same master. The character of St. Ambrose is very
fine, and the draperies are in a great style of painting.

Susannah and the Elders, by Le Moine. The colouring of the woman, who
is near naked, is very fine, and the composition and the landskip are
very agreeable.

A little boy and girl naked in a landskip of a garden, by Albano, in
his richest colouring.

A battle, by Bourgognone, about two feet wide; this is clearer and
better coloured than most of his pictures usually are.

Two landskips, by Gaspar Poussin, about two feet two inches wide each.
They are in his finest green manner, and extremely well preserved.

Another landskip, by the same master, a little larger but upright, and
also in his richest and best manner.

A landskip with rocks, and a man lying reading, by Salvator Rosa,
about two feet two inches wide. This is one of those pictures that
were engraved and published by direction of Mr. Pond some years ago:
it belonged then to Mr. Kent.

A landskip, its companion, by Bartolomeo, a disciple of the above
master. The figures and water in this picture are remarkably fine.

A landskip, a warm evening, about the same size, by Jean Asselin,
commonly called Crabacci, with cattle in the water by Berchem in his
finest manner. Mr. Major, an engraver of great merit, has made a very
capital print from this picture.

A landskip with cattle and figures, by Cuyp, its companion. The
sun-shine, for which this master is so famous, is particularly fine in
this picture.

Venus and Adonis with Cupids, by Van Baelen, in a landskip about the
same size as the above, by Velvet Brughell, who has introduced dogs,
_&c._ painted with the utmost life and spirit. This is as fine a
coloured picture as can possibly be met with.

A landskip about the same size, with a flock of sheep, _&c._ by
Francesco Mille. The composition is fine, and this is one of his
richest pictures.

A piece of ruins, by Viviano, about the same size.

A piece of ruins, by Ghisolfi, with a man sitting by the side of the
Tiber.

A sea calm with English yachts, by William Vandevelde. The keeping,
the figures, and the water, are uncommonly fine in this picture.

A canal with boats on it, and a bridge at the end, with buildings on
each side, by Canaletti. This picture, for the fineness of the water,
and the justness of the perspective, is allowed to be one of the very
finest of this master.

A landskip with figures, fishing, &c. by Zuccharelli, about 2 feet 9
inches wide. This picture from the fineness of the figures, and the
uncommon richness of the colouring, has been always deemed at least
equal to any thing this great master ever painted.

A holy family, with a little St. John sitting on a lamb, by
Scarcellini de Ferrara, after a design of Augustine Caracci; it is a
small picture, but the characters and colouring are remarkably sweet
in it.

A very masterly sketch of the miraculous cross of St. Antonio de
Padua, by Seb. Ricci. This at a little distance, has all the effect of
a finish’d picture.

Christ and the two disciples at Emaus, by Elsheimer. The story is
finely told, and there is great expression in the figures: this
picture is a curiosity, not only from the great scarceness of the
works of this master, but there are in it two different candle lights,
and a moon light, which have an uncommon, and yet pleasing effect.

The Virgin supporting a dead Christ, by Lubin Baugin, called in
France, Le Petit Guide, from his happy manner of imitating the stile
of that great master, of which this little picture, among others, is a
proof: this was out of the Duke de Tallard’s collection.

A sea monster swimming away with a woman, by Albert Durer, who has
engraved a print of the same subject: this is extremely well
preserved, and there is a much better keeping observed in it than is
usual in pictures of that age.

A camelion with a thistle and flies, most exquisitely painted after
the life, by Van Aelst.

A group of various flowers with insects in a glass of water, by a
master who has mark’d the picture with [Albrecht Durer’s mark] This in
point of finishing, is perhaps carried as high as art, colours, and
the finest pointed pencils can possibly arrive.

A man sitting smoaking, and other back figures, by David Teniers. This
is in his finest stile, both for colouring and expression.

Two men with a little dog going to enter a cottage; a smaller picture
by the same master. Mr. Major has engraved a print from this, and
call’d it the Friendly Invitation.

There are other smaller pictures, good in their kind, such as the
Virgin and Child, by Rottenhammer, highly finished and coloured.

The same subject, the school of Caracci, if not of him.

The Virgin and Child with a bird, and a little St. John, by Sebastian
Bourdon, richer coloured than common of this master.

A holy family and St. Catherine, by Schidoni.

An angel drawing an arrow from the side of St. Sebastian, finely
coloured by Gerrard Seghers.

Alpheus and Arethusa, Glaucus and Scylla, by Filippo Lauri, in his
best manner.

A ship on fire, by Vandevelde: the effect surprizingly fine.

A landskip, by Wynants, highly finish’d, &c.

The same Gentleman has also a collection of about twelve thousand
prints, engraved and etched by the most celebrated masters of the
three last centuries, much the greatest part of which are not only in
the highest preservation, but also of the finest impressions; and of
many of the matters, there are either all, or very near the whole
work; they are contained in about 50 large volumes, besides above 60
volumes in sculpture and architecture. The principal part of this
collection of prints are engraved and etched by Andrea Mantegna, Marco
Antonio Raimondi, Ugo da Carpi, Silvestra and Marco de Ravenna, Julio
Bonafoni, Augustino Venetiana, Martinus Rota, Adamo of Mantua, Andrea
del Sarto, Parmegiano, Primaticcio, Schidoni, Sisto Badalocchi,
Baroccio, Carnillo Procaccino, Michael Angelo Caravaggio, Guercino,
Spagnoletto, Paulo Veronese, Palma, Giulio Carpioni, Domenico Canuti,
Odoardo Fialetti, Paulo Farinati, Ventura Salembeni, all the
Caracci’s, Battista Franco, Guido Rheni, Simone Cantarini, Elisabetta
Sirani, Claude Lorrain, Gaspar Poussin, Crescentio, Horizonti,
Francesco Bolognese, Paul Brill, Both of Italy, Salvator Rosa, Pietro
Testa, Castiglione, Bourgognone, Carlo Maratti, Luca Jordano, Rubens,
Vandyck, and others, after him the whole work, Jordaens Rombouts,
Cornelius de Wael, Vosterman, Martinus Secu, Albert Durer, Lucas Van
Leiden, Hisbin, Geo. Pens, the Visschers, Rembrant near the whole
work, Ostade, David Teneirs, Both, Bega, Berchem, Paul Potter, Stoop,
Ad. Vandevelde, Bamboccio, Hondius, Fyt, Jean Miele, Molenaer, Hollar,
Bloemart, Sebastian Bourdon, Le Brun, La Hyre, Mignard, Della Bella,
Callot, Mellan, Spierre, Perelle, Coypel, Pittau, Morin, Edelinck,
Masson, Drevet, Nanteuil, and many other excellent masters: also a
very considerable collection of original drawings by most of the
greatest Italian, and some of the best Flemish and Dutch masters.

BERKLEY _street_, Hyde park road; thus called from its being near the
Lord Berkley of Stratton’s mansion house.

BERMEETER’S ALMSHOUSE, in St. John street Bethnal green, was founded by
Mr. Bermeeter, for six poor women, and by him endowed with 30_l._ _per
annum_.

BERMONDSEY SCHOOL, was founded in the year 1718, by Mr. Josiah Bacon,
who bequeatheth the sum of 700_l._ for purchasing land, and erecting a
school upon it, which he endowed with 150_l._ a year, for educating
sixty poor children of the parish of St. Mary Bermondsey street,
called by corruption Barnaby street. See _St._ MARY MAGDALEN’S
BERMONDSEY.

The district of Bermondsey appears in William the Conqueror’s survey
to have been a royal manor, in which were twenty five husbandmen, and
twenty-three cottagers. _Maitland._

BERNARD’S or BARNARD’S INN, situated on the south side of Holborn, near
Fetter lane, was anciently called Mackworth’s Inn, and is one of the
Inns of Chancery. This Society consists of a Principal and twelve
Antients, besides other members, who are obliged to be in commons a
fortnight in two terms, and ten days in each of the other two, on the
penalty of forfeiting five shillings a week.

BERRY _court_. 1. Liquorpond street.†. 2. Love lane, Wood street,
Cheapside.† 3. St. Mary Ax.

BERRY _street_. 1. Piccadilly.† 2. Near St. Mary Ax, Leadenhall street.†

BERWICK _street_, Old Soho.

BETHLEHEM _court_, Old Bethlehem.†

BETHLEM, or BEDLAM HOSPITAL, originally a priory, was founded in the
year 1247, by Simon Fitzroy, of London, or according to Stow, Simon
Fitz Mary, Sheriff of London, on the east side of the place now called
the quarters of Moorfields, and of the burial ground of Old Bethlem.
This priory consisted of brothers and sisters, who wore a star upon
their copes and mantles, probably in commemoration of the star that
guided the wisemen in their visit to our Saviour at his birth; and
these monks were to receive the Bishop and the Canons of Bethlehem,
whenever they should come to England. But King Henry VIII. giving this
house to the city of London, it was converted into an hospital for the
cure of lunatics; but not without a certain weekly expence, paid
either by their relations or the parish.

This hospital being, however, in an incommodious situation, and
becoming both ruinous, and unable to receive and entertain the great
number of distracted persons, whose friends sued for their admission,
the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, granted the Governors a
piece of ground along the south side of the lower quarters of
Moorfields, upon which the foundation of the present hospital was laid
in April 1675, and notwithstanding its being the most magnificent
edifice of its kind in Europe, was only fifteen months in erecting, as
appears by an inscription on its front.

This noble edifice is 540 feet in length, and 40 feet in breadth, and
is finely situated. The middle and ends, which project a little, are
adorned with pilasters, entablatures, foliages, and other ornaments,
and rising above the rest of the building, have each a flat roof with
a handsome balustrade of stone, in the center of which is an elegant
turret. That in the middle is adorned with a clock, and three dials, a
gilt ball, and a vane on the top.

This building upon the whole shews more the good intentions, than the
good taste of the founders of this charity, the style of architecture
being very improper for an hospital for madmen. Simplicity and
regularity was all that should have been aimed at, and if there was a
necessity for pilasters, those of the Tuscan order would have suited
the design much better than Corinthian; but without regarding the
application, the middle pavilion, which is elegant, should have
certainly been larger and more principal. The entrance is grand, and
the figures on the piers, one representing raving, and the other
melancholy madness, are finely expressed, and do honour to their
author Mr. Cibber, father of the late Poet Laureat. Since the first
erecting of this edifice, two wings have been added, in order to
contain a number of incurables. And before this fabric is a handsome
wall 680 feet in length, which, like the structure itself, is built
with brick and stone. It incloses a range of gardens neatly adorned
with walks of broad stone, grass plats and trees, wherein those of the
lunatics who are well enough to be suffered to go about, are allowed
to walk there and enjoy the benefit of the fresh air. In the middle of
this wall is a large pair of fine iron gates, and by them a small
entrance for the admission of those who come out of curiosity to visit
this hospital; on each side towards the top of these gates are placed
the two statues, in the manner represented in the print.

The expence of erecting this edifice, besides that of building the
wings, amounted to near 17,000_l._

The inside chiefly consists of two galleries one over the other, which
cross the wings, and are 193 yards long, thirteen feet high, and
sixteen feet broad; without including the cells for the patients,
which are twelve feet deep. These galleries are divided in the middle
by two iron grates, by which means all the men are placed at one end
of the house, and all the women at the other, and in each gallery
servants lie, to be ready at hand on all occasions. In the middle of
the upper gallery is a large spacious room, where the Governors, and,
in the lower, where the weekly Committee meet, and the Physician
prescribes for the patients; besides, above there are convenient
apartments for the steward of the house, the porter, matron, nurse and
servants; and below stairs all necessary offices for keeping and
dressing the provisions; for washing, and other necessary offices
belonging to so large a family; and also a bathing place for the
patients, so contrived, as to be an hot or cold bath, as occasion
requires.

There are generally above 200 lunatics maintained in this hospital,
each of whom has a small room or cell to himself, where he is locked
up on nights, and in this room is a place for a bed; but where the
patients are so senseless as not to be fit to make use of one, they
are every day provided with fresh clean straw. Those are judged the
fittest objects that are raving and furious, and yet capable of cure.

As to the method of admitting them, they are brought on Saturday, when
the Committee meets, to be viewed by them and the Physician; and if a
person be judged a fit object, a warrant is drawn up for his admission
by the clerk of the hospital, to be signed by the President, or, in
his absence, by the Treasurer. Those who put in the patient are
obliged to give a bond, signed by two persons, to take him away when
discharged, or if he dies, to be at the expence of burying him. Their
friends, who put them in, are obliged to provide them with cloaths;
but there is a wardrobe from whence they are supplied, when neglected
by those friends: for though, when raving and furious, they suffer but
little from the weather; yet in their intervals, they frequently
contract other distempers, care of which is also taken, as well as of
their lunacy, whether those distempers be external or internal; and
though formerly every patient paid 5_s._ a week, they now not only pay
nothing, but after their recovery and leaving the hospital, are
furnished with medicines to prevent a relapse. When a patient is
cured, he is called before a Committee of the Governors and
Physicians, who examine him, and being found fit to be discharged, the
Physician gives a certificate to that purpose, and then the steward of
the house takes care to have him delivered to his friends.

The hospitals of Bethlem and Bridewell being made one corporation,
they have the same President, Treasurer, Governors, Clerk, Physician,
Surgeon, and Apothecary; yet each hospital has its proper steward and
inferior officers, and a particular committee is chosen out of the
Governors for each. Out of that appointed for Bethlem, there are six
who meet every Saturday, to examine the steward’s account of expences
for the preceding week, and to sign it after it is approved; they also
view the provisions, examine the patients that are to be received or
discharged, and have the direction of other affairs belonging to this
hospital.

BETHNAL GREEN, a village near Mile End, and lately one of the hamlets of
Stepney, from which parish it was separated by an act of parliament in
the 13th year of his present Majesty’s reign. The old Roman way from
London led thro’ this hamlet, and joining the military way from the
west, passed with it to Lea Ferry at Old Ford. Within this hamlet,
Bonner, Bishop of London, had a palace, and the Trinity House have a
hospital for twenty-eight decayed seamen, who have been masters of
ships or pilots, or their widows. See TRINITY HOSPITAL.

The church built pursuant to the above act, is placed at the north
east corner of Hare street, Spitalfields, and is a neat, commodious
edifice, built with brick coped and coined with freestone; and the
tower, which is not high, is of the same materials. It is remarkable,
that though the village of itself is small, yet as part of
Spitalfields anciently belonged to that hamlet, this parish contains
1800 houses, and the parishioners are computed to amount to above
15000.

BETT’S _alley_, Anchor street.†

BETT’S _street_. 1. By Knockfergus.† 2. Ratcliff Highway.†

BEVIS _lane_, Duke’s place.

BEVIS MARKS, St. Mary Ax. Here was once a very large house with several
courts and gardens, which belonging to the Abbot of Bury in Suffolk,
was called Bury’s Marks, corruptly Bevis Marks. This house being
demolished, the ground has many houses built upon it, and among the
rest a synagogue of Jews. _Stow._

BEVIS MARKS SCHOOL, was founded in the in the year 1731, by Isaac de
Costa Villa Real, a Portuguese Jew, who also endowed it with the
annual sum of 80_l._ for cloathing and educating twenty Jew girls of
his nation.

BEWLEY’S _rents_, Holiwell court.†

BIGG’S _alley_, Thrall street, Spitalfields.†

BIGG’S or BETT’S _rents_, Rosemary lane, Tower hill.

BILL _alley_, Billiter lane.

BILLET _yard_, Billiter lane.

BILLINGSGATE, a great fish market in Thames street; which is only a
large water-gate, port, or harbour, for small vessels, laden with
fish, oranges, lemons, Spanish onions, and in summer, with Kentish
cherries; here the Gravesend boats wait to take in their fare; and
here the woodmongers and coalmen meet at about eight or nine o’clock
every morning, this being a kind of exchange for those concerned in
the coal trade.

Billingsgate is however most famous for being the greatest fish market
in England, and the only port for fish in London, which has occasioned
several acts of parliament, to prevent the fishmongers monopolizing
that considerable article of food. By these acts it is made lawful for
any person to buy fish in that market, and to sell it again in any
other market or place in the city of London, or elsewhere, by retail;
but no fishmonger, or other person, is to engross or buy more than
shall be for his own sale or use, on pain of forfeiting 20_l._ for
every such offence, and no fishmonger, or other person, is to expose
to sale any fish at Billingsgate by retail that was before bought in
the same market.

BILLINGSGATE _dock_, Thames street.

BILLINGSGATE _ward_, is situated on the side of the Thames, and is
therefore bounded by that river on the south; as it is on the east by
Tower street ward, on the west by Bridge ward, and on the north by
Langbourn ward. It contains a part of Thames street, and Little
Eastcheap, which lie in the same direction, and those leading from one
of those streets to the other, as St. Mary at hill, Love lane,
Botolph’s lane, Pudding lane, and on the other side of Little
Eastcheap, a considerable part of Rood lane, and Philpot lane. The
most remarkable buildings are the churches of St. Mary at hill, St.
Margaret Pattens, and St. George, Botolph lane; Butchers hall, and the
King’s weigh-house.

This ward is governed by an Alderman, and ten Common Council men, one
of whom is Deputy, eleven constables, six scavengers, fourteen
wardmote inquestmen, and a beadle.

The jurymen returned by the wardmote inquest, serve as jurors in the
courts of Guildhall in the month of May.

BILLITER _lane_, Leadenhall street. It was anciently called Belzeter’s
lane, from its first builder and owner, which was at length corrupted
to Billiter lane. _Maitland._

BILLITER _square_, Billiter lane.

BILTON’S _alley_, Freeman’s lane, Horselydown.†

BINGLE’S _lane_, Poplar.†

BINHAM’S _yard_, near St. James’s square.†

BIRCHIN _lane_, Cornhill. Stow observes that it was anciently called
Birchover’s lane, from Birchover, the first builder and owner, and
that this name was corrupted to Birchin lane.

BIRD’S _alley_, Fashion street.†

BIRD’S _court_, Philip lane.†

BIRD’S _street_, 1. Brook’s street.† 2. Green Bank, Wapping.† 3. Orchard
street.†

BIRD’S _wharf_, White Friars stairs.†

BIRD’S _yard_, Chick lane, Smithfield.†

BIRD CAGE _alley_. 1. Anchor street.* 2. In the Borough.* 3. St.
Margaret’s Hill, Southwark.*

BIRDCATCHERS _alley_, Whitechapel.

BIRD IN HAND _alley_, Cheapside.*

BISHOP’S _court_. 1. Ailsbury street. 2. Brook’s street. 3. Chancery
lane, from the Bishop of Chichester’s house near that place. 4.
Coleman street. 5. Durham yard in the Strand. 6. Fore street. 7.
Gray’s Inn lane. 8. Little Old Bailey. 9. Lothbury. 10. Old Soho. 11.
Old street.

BISHOP’S _yard_, Charles street, Grosvenor square.

BISHOPSGATE, is situated 1440 feet north west of Aldgate. Mr. Strype
imagines that it was erected by Erkenwald Bishop of London about the
year 675, a conjecture founded only on the effigies of two Bishops
wherewith this gate was formerly adorned, and from which it might take
its name: but it is probable that it was not erected so early, since
Mr. Stow could not find it mentioned before the year 1210.

In the reign of King Henry III. the Anseatic company residing in this
city, in consideration of several privileges granted them, obliged
themselves and their successors, not only to keep this gate in repair,
but to defend it, whenever it should be attacked by an enemy: and by
this company it was rebuilt in a beautiful manner in the year 1479. On
the south side over the gateway, was placed a stone image of a Bishop
with a mitre on his head; he had a long beard, eyes sunk, and an old
mortified face, and was supposed to present St. Erkenwald. On the
north side was another Bishop with a smooth face, reaching out his
right hand to bestow his benedictions, and holding a crosier in his
left, who is thought to have been the courtly Bishop William the
Norman: this last was accompanied by two other figures in stone,
supposed to be King Alfred, and his son Eldred Earl of Mercia. The
present structure is a plain neat edifice erected in 1735. On the top
over the gateway, which is very lofty, is the city arms supported by
dragons; and on each side of the gate is a postern for the convenience
of foot passengers.

BISHOPSGATE _street_ extends from Cornhill, thro’ the gate, to Norton
Falgate, that part between the gate and Cornhill being called
Bishopsgate street within, and all without the gate, Bishopsgate
street without.

BISHOPSGATE _ward_, which takes its name from the gate, that stands
almost in its center, is bounded on the south by Langbourn ward; on
the west by Broad street ward; and Moorfields on the east by Aldgate
ward, Portsoken ward, and part of the Tower liberty; and on the north
by Shoreditch: thus this ward extends from the bars near Spital
square, on both sides of the way, (including near half of Houndsditch)
as far as the pump at the corner of St. Martin’s Outwich; and winds by
the west corner of Leadenhall, down Gracechurch street, to the south
west corner of Fenchurch street. The principal places in this ward
are, the parish churches of St. Botolph without Bishopsgate, St.
Ethelburga’s, and Great St. Helen’s; Leatherfellers hall, Gresham
college, and the London Workhouse.

This ward is under the government of an Alderman and two Deputies, one
within, and the other without the gate, six Common Council men,
thirteen wardmote inquest men, seven constables, seven scavengers, and
a beadle. The jurymen returned by the inquest men are to serve in the
several courts of Guildhall in the month of December

BISSEL’S _court_, Wapping.†

BIST’S _gardens_, in the Mint, Southwark.†

BITT _alley_, Turnmill street.

BLACK _alley_, Turnmill street.

BLACK AND WHITE _alley_. 1. Old Bailey. 2. Tower hill.

BLACK AND WHITE _court_, Old Bailey.

BLACK BELL _alley_. Petticoat lane.*

BLACK BIRD _alley_. 1. St. John’s street, Spitalfields.* 2. Spicer
street.*

BLACK BOY _alley_. 1. Chick lane.* 2. Barnaby street.* 3. Blackman
street, Southwark.* 4. Fore street, Lambeth.* 5. In the Minories.* 6.
Near Peter’s Hill, Thames street.* 7. Rosemary lane.* 8. Saltpetre
Bank.*

BLACK BOY _court_, Long Acre.*

BLACK BOY _yard_. 1. In the Minories.* 2. Saltpetre Bank.*

BLACK BULL _alley_, Petticoat lane, Whitechapel.*

BLACK BULL _yard_, Whitechapel.*

BLACKBURN’S _alley_, Rotherhith wall.†

BLACKBURN’S _court_, Portpool lane.†

BLACKBURN’S _mews_, Grosvenor street.†

BLACK DOG _alley_. 1. Bowling alley, Dean’s yard, Westminster.* 2. East
Smithfield.*

BLACK DOG _yard_. 1. Near Vauxhall.* 2. Shoreditch.*

BLACK EAGLE _court_, Whitechapel.*

BLACK EAGLE _street_, Brick lane, Spitalfields.*

BLACK EAGLE _yard_, Black Eagle street.*

BLACK FIELDS, Horselydown.

BLACK FRIARS, near Fleet ditch, was a monastery of that order, otherwise
called Preaching Friars. This monastery was erected by Robert Kilwarby
Archbishop of Canterbury, about the year 1276, who also built the
church of Black Friars, to which King Edward I. and Queen Eleanor were
great benefactors, and even the reputed founders. This church was
large and richly furnished with ornaments. In the monastery several
parliaments were held, and the Emperor Charles V. who was also King of
Spain, lodged there in the year 1522. There the ancient Kings had
their records and charters kept, as well as at the Tower: and, tho’
this monastery was dissolved with the rest by King Henry VIII. yet in
the reign of Queen Elizabeth, Black Friars was inhabited by many
noblemen and gentlemen; parliaments still continued to be often held
there, and being a place of refuge, malefactors frequently took
shelter in its liberties, and the inhabitants were free from arrests:
but these pernicious privileges have been many years lost; and as it
has been lately made part of the ward of Faringdon within, the
shopkeepers and tradesmen are obliged to be free of the city; two
Common Council men are annually elected out of it, and added to the
number that used to serve this ward.

BLACK FRIARS _bridge_. The Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of
this city, have been empowered by a late act, to build a bridge cross
the Thames from Black Friars to the opposite side in the county of
Surrey; to fill up the channel of Bridewell dock, or Fleet ditch, and
to purchase and pull down such buildings as shall be thought proper
for forming and widening streets and avenues. This bridge is to have a
free and open passage thro’ the arches of 750 feet at least within the
banks of the river. A sufficient number of glass lamps are to be fixed
on proper parts of it, to burn from sun setting to sun rising; and a
number of watchmen placed for the security of passengers.

For the erecting and support of this work, when finished, they are to
receive as toll, any sum they shall direct, not exceeding the
following rates:

For every coach, chariot, berlin, chaise, chair or calash, drawn by
six horses, 2_s._

Drawn by four horses, 1_s._ 6_d._

Drawn by less than four, 1_s._

For every waggon, wain, cart or car, drawn by four or more horses, or
other beasts, 1_s._

For either of the same carriages drawn by less than four horses, &c.
6_d._

For every horse, mule or ass, laden or unladen, and not drawing, 1_d._

For every foot passenger on Sunday, 1_d._

And every other day ½d.

Upon the credit of these tolls, the Lord Mayor and Common Council are impowered to raise any sums of money not exceeding 30,000_l._ in one year, till they have raised 160,000_l._ in the whole, which they are not to exceed.

BLACK FRIARS _school_, was founded by Peter Joy, Esq; in the year 1716,
who also endowed it with 160_l._ 17_s._ 3_d._ _per annum_, for
cloathing and instructing forty boys and thirty girls, in reading,
writing and accounts. This school he left in trust with the Governors
of Sion College, who allow the master 40_l._ and the mistress 30_l._ a
year.

BLACK FRIARS _stairs_, near Fleet ditch.

BLACKHEATH, a large plain on the south of Greenwich, on which Watt
Tyler, the Kentish rebel, mustered 100,000 men. In this place, which
is admired for the fineness of its situation, and its excellent air,
is a noble house built by Sir Gregory Page, Bart. a view of which we
have here given.

This is a very magnificent edifice, built in the modern taste,
consisting of a basement state and attick story. The wings contain the
offices and stables, which are joined to the body of the house by a
colonade. It stands in the midst of a park with a large piece of water
before it. The back front has an Ionic portico of four columns, but
having no pediment does not make so agreeable a figure as could be
wished.

This is one of the finest seats in England belonging to a private
gentleman; it is adorned with many capital pictures, a list whereof is
here given; and the gardens, park, and country around, render it a
most delightful seat: yet this fine edifice was begun, raised, and
covered, in the space of eleven months. At a small distance is the
College erected by Sir John Morden, Bart. for a particular account of
which see MORDEN COLLEGE.

A Catalogue of the Pictures of Sir GREGORY PAGE, Baronet, at his
House at _Blackheath_.

│ Height.│ Breadth.│Painted by
│ Feet Inc.│ Feet Inc.│

Sampson and Dalilah │ 5 6│ 8 3│_Vandyke._

St. Cyprian a ¾ │ 4 3│ 3 1½│_Ditto._
length │ │ │

The three royal │ 2 0│ 3 8│_Ditto._
children ½ │ │ │
lengths │ │ │

Juno and Ixion │ 6 0│ 8 0│_Rubens._

Rubens and his │ 6 8│ 6 3│_Ditto._
mistress │ │ │

Rubens, two figures,│ 5 3│ 8 0│_Ditto and Snyders._
fowls and fruit │ │ │

Figures by Rubens, a│ 2 3│ 3 1│_Ditto and Brughel._
landskip │ │ │

David and Abigail │ 6 2│ 6 9½│_Ditto._

A maid milking a │ 4 10│ 6 7│_Jordans of Antwp._
goat │ │ │

The good Samaritan │ 7 0│ 7 8│_Systi Baldelochi._

The return of the │ 7 0│ 9 0│_Chev. Calabreze._
prodigal son │ │ │

Moses striking the │ 7 0│ 9 0│_Valerio Castello._
rock │ │ │

The woman taken in │ 3 8│ 5 2│_Paul Veronese._
adultery │ │ │

Moses and Pharaoh’s │ 4 4│ 6 0│_Paul Veronese._
daughter │ │ │

A counsellor, his │ 3 10½│ 4 9½│_Titian._
wife and daughter │ │ │

Peter’s denial of │ 4 2│ 4 10│_M. A. daCaravagio._
our Saviour │ │ │

A holy family │ 2 2│ 1 0│_Parmegiano._

Moses striking the │ 3 1│ 4 10½│_Giacomo Bassan._
rock │ │ │

A landskip with │ 2 4│ 3 10½│_Ditto._
cattle │ │ │

The angels appearing│ 4 2│ 5 5│_Bassan._
to the shepherds │ │ │

History of Cupid and│ 1 10│ 2 2½│_Luca Giordano._
Psyche, twelve │ │ │
pieces │ │ │

Venus, Cupid and │ 1 1½│ 1 4½│_Philippo Lauro._
Satyrs │ │ │

Venus, Cupid and │ 1 1½│ 1 4½│_Ditto._
Satyrs │ │ │

A landskip with │ 2 0│ 1 6│_Salvator Rosa._
figures │ │ │

A landskip with │ 2 0│ 1 6│_Francisco Mola._
figures │ │ │

Judith and │ 4 4½│ 3 11│_Manfredo._
Holofernes │ │ │

│ 3 10½│ 3 2½│_Lewis Carrachi._

A sacrifice │ 3 2│ 4 3│_Nich. Poussin._

A Venus, Cupid and │ 2 2│ 1 8│_Ditto._
Satyrs │ │ │

Daphne changed into │ 2 2½│ 1 10│_Nich. Poussin._
a laurel │ │ │

A landskip with │ 3 0│ 4 3│_Gaspar Poussin._
figures │ │ │

Architecture and │ 3 9│ 5 3│_Viviano._
figures │ │ │

Architecture and │ 3 2│ 4 4½│_Ditto._
figures │ │ │

Joseph and his │ 3 0│ 4 2│_Paraccini._
brethren │ │ │

Jacob embracing │ 3 0│ 4 2│_Ditto._
Benjamin │ │ │

A landskip with │ 2 0│ 2 9│_Claude Lorrain._
figures │ │ │

A landskip with │ 2 6│ 3 11½│_Francisco Mille._
figures │ │ │

A landskip with │ 1 5│ 1 10│_Ditto._
figures │ │ │

Three figures ½ │ 3 10│ 3 1│_after Car.
lengths │ │ │Maratti._

A quarter length │ 2 9│ 2 0│_Albert Durer._

A battle piece │ 2 3│ 3 2│_Bourgognone._

A battle piece │ 2 3│ 3 2│_Ditto._

An holy family │ 3 0│ 3 9│_Solomini._

Paris and Helena │ 2 0│ 3 2½│_L’Araise._

The judgment of │ 3 9│ 4 1½│_Pompeio._
Solomon, gallery │ │ │
chimney piece │ │ │

Hector and │ 3 4│ 3 6│_Imperialis._
Andromache, │ │ │
drawing room │ │ │
chimney piece │ │ │

Coriolanus, saloon │ 3 9│ 3 9│_Imperialis and
chimney piece │ │ │Masucci._

Architecture and │ 4 8│ 4 0½│_Paulo Panini._
figures, dressing │ │ │
room chimney piece│ │ │

Architecture with │ 2 5│ 2 4½│_Ditto._
figures, │ │ │
bedchamber chimney│ │ │
piece │ │ │

Ditto, yellow │ 3 4½│ 3 3│_Ditto._
bedchamber chimney│ │ │
piece │ │ │

Ditto, library │ 4 7½│ 4 0½│_after Panini._
chimney piece │ │ │

Ditto, yellow │ 2 10│ 3 7½│_Harding aft.
dressing room, │ │ │Panini._
ditto │ │ │

Ditto, red dressing │ 3 6│ 3 4½│_Ditto._
over the chimney │ │ │
piece, ditto │ │ │

Ditto, store room │ 2 9½│ 2 8½│_Ditto._
chimney piece, │ │ │
ditto │ │ │

Ditto, over the │ 1 9│ 3 3│_after P. Panini._
doors of the red │ │ │
drawing room │ │ │

Ditto, over the │ 1 9│ 3 3│_Harding aft.
doors of the red │ │ │Panini_
drawing room │ │ │

Ditto, with figures │ 2 4│ 3 8│_Ditto._
over the door in │ │ │
the saloon │ │ │

Ditto, ditto │ 2 4│ 3 8│_Ditto._

A landskip with │ 3 8½│ 3 8½│_Lambert._
figures, dining │ │ │
room chimney piece│ │ │

A landskip with │ 2 10½│ 3 2½│_Ditto._
figures, green │ │ │
dressing room │ │ │
chimney piece │ │ │

A landskip with │ 2 4½│ 2 4½│_By_
figures, green │ │ │
bedchamber chimney│ │ │
piece │ │ │

Fruit and flowers, │ 2 5│ 2 5│_By_
breakfast chimney │ │ │
piece │ │ │

Pharaoh’s daughter │ 2 3½│ 1 10½│_Chev. Vanderwerff._
and Moses │ │ │

Message by the │ 2 2│ 1 7½│_Ditto._
angels to the │ │ │
shepherds │ │ │

King Zeleucus giving│ 2 4│ 1 8│_Ditto._
his kingdom to his│ │ │
son │ │ │

Shepherds and │ 1 10│ 1 5½│_Chev. Vanderwerff._
shepherdesses │ │ │
dancing │ │ │

Hercules between │ 1 11│ 1 5│_Ditto._
Virtue and Vice │ │ │

Roman Charity │ 1 11½│ 1 5│_Ditto._

Joseph and │ 1 11│ 1 5½│_Ditto._
Potipher’s wife │ │ │