Chapter M: DCC LXI (2)

GOLDSMITHS, one of the twelve principal companies, is of great
antiquity; for in the reign of Henry II. in the year 1180, it was
among other guilds, fined for being adulterine, that is, setting up
without the King’s special licence. But at length, in 1327, Edward
III. in consideration of the sum of ten marks, incorporated this
company by letters patent, and granted the Goldsmiths the privilege of
purchasing an estate of 20_l._ _per annum_ in mortmain, for the
support of their valetudinary members, which in the year 1394, was
confirmed by Richard II. for the sum of twenty marks. These grants
were afterwards confirmed by Edward IV. in the year 1462, who also
constituted this society a body politic and corporate, to have
perpetual succession, and a common seal. They had now likewise the
privilege of inspecting, trying, and regulating all gold and silver
wares, not only in this city, but in all other parts of the kingdom;
with the power of punishing all offenders concerned in working
adulterated gold and silver, and the power of making by-laws for their
better government.

This fraternity is governed by a Prime, three other Wardens, and
ninety-eight Assistants; with a livery of 198 members, who upon their
admission pay a fine of 20_l._

GOLDSMITHS HALL, a spacious building in Foster lane, Cheapside, was
originally built by Drew Barentin, about the year 1407, but was
destroyed by the fire in 1666, and the present edifice arose in its
place. It is an irregular structure built with brick, and the corners
wrought in rustic of stone. The door is large, arched, and decorated
with Doric columns, which support a pediment of the arched kind, but
open for a shield, in which are the arms of the company. The hall room
is spacious, and both that and the other rooms well enlightened.

In this hall are, among others, the pictures of Sir Martin Bowers, and
Sir Hugh Middleton, both of this company, and great benefactors to it.
They both enjoyed the office of Lord Mayor of London. The latter is
worthy of immortal honour, for bringing the New River water to the
city: out of the rents of which he gave 30_l._ a year to this company,
which is now worth near the annual revenue of 300_l._ They have also a
very great estate, and apply above 1000_l._ a year to charitable uses.

By an act passed in the 12th year of the reign of his present Majesty
George II. it is ordered that no goldsmith, silversmith, or other
person dealing in gold or silver wares, shall make any gold vessel,
plate, or manufacture, of less fineness than 22 carats of fine gold in
every pound troy weight; nor any of silver, of less fineness than 11
ounces, two pennyweights, of fine silver in every pound troy. And that
no goldsmith, silversmith, or other dealer in gold or silver wares,
shall sell, exchange, or expose to sale, any gold or silver plate, or
export the same, without its being marked with the first letters of
the christian and surname of the maker, and, if in London, with the
marks of the Goldsmiths company, namely, the leopard’s head, the lion
passant, and a distinct variable mark, denoting the year in which such
plate was made; or with the mark of the worker, and the marks
appointed to be used by the assayers of York, Exeter, Bristol,
Chester, Norwich, or Newcastle upon Tyne; on the penalty of forfeiting
10_l._ for every omission. The forging of the company’s marks, exposes
the maker to the penalty of 100_l._ or two years imprisonment.
However, such pieces of gold or silver, as are either too small or too
thin to receive the marks, and do not weigh ten pennyweights of gold
or silver each, are not to be stamped. The price of assaying is fixed
by the Wardens of the company.

GOLDSMITH’S _alley_, 1. Jewin street.† 2. Lukener’s lane, Drury lane.†

GOLDSMITH’S _court_, 1. Goldsmith’s alley, Jewin street.† 2. New
street.†

GOLDSMITH’S _rents_, East Smithfield.†

GOLDSMITH’S _street_, 1. Crucifix lane, Barnaby street, Southwark.† 2.
Wood street, Cheapside.

GOLD’S _square_, Golston street, Whitechapel.† See GOULD’S _square_.

GOLD _street_, 1. Near New Gravel lane. 2. Wood street, Cheapside.

GOLSTON’S _court_, Drury lane.†

GONSON’S _rents_, Bluegate fields, Upper Shadwell.†

GOODCHILD’S _alley_, Market street, Westminster.

GOODMAN’S _fields_, a considerable piece of ground lying behind the
houses on the south side of Whitechapel, the east side of the
Minories, and the north side of Rosemary lane. Mr. Stow observes, that
in his time, this was a large field and farm kept by one Goodman,
whose son afterwards let it out, and lived like a gentleman upon the
rent it produced: and it still retains the same name, though it has
now no appearance of a field. It principally consists of four handsome
streets, inhabited by merchants, and other persons in affluent
circumstances: these streets are on the four sides, and in the center
is a tenter ground, which being surrounded by the houses, is excluded
from public view. About fifteen years ago there was a very neat but
small play house in one of these streets, and in this theatre Mr.
Garrick first distinguished himself as an actor.

GOODMAN’S _wharf_, St. Catharine’s.†

GOODMAN’S _yard_, In the Minories, leading into Goodman’s fields.†

GOOD’S _rents_, In the Minories.†

GOODWIN’S _court_, 1. Oxford street.† 2. St. Martin’s lane, Chancery
lane.† 3. Noble street.†

GOODYEAR’S _rents_, Wapping.†

GOOSE _alley_, 1. Bow Church yard, Cheapside.* 2. Fleet Ditch.*

GOOSETREE’S _yard_, Peter street, Westminster.†

GORHAMBURY, a little to the west of St. Alban’s, was formerly the
paternal estate of the great Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, and Viscount
of St. Alban’s, and is now the seat of the Lord Viscount Grimston.

GOSLING’S _rents_, Swordbearer’s alley, Chiswell street.†

GOSSIPS _rents_, Tooley street.‖

GOSSIPS _row_, Glean alley, Tooley street.‖

GOSWELL _street_, extends in a line from the corner of Barbican, where
Aldersgate street ends, to Mount Mill.

GOUGH’S _square_, near Fleet street; a very small oblong square, with a
row on each side of handsome buildings.†

GOUGH’S _yard_, Back street, Lambeth.†

GOULD’S _court_, Woodrofe lane.†

GOULD’S _square_, Woodrofe lane.†

GOULSTON’S _square_, Whitechapel.†

GRACECHURCH _street_, Cornhill, was originally called Grass church
street, from a grass or herb market, near Allhallows Lombard street,
which from that market was called Grass church. _Stow._

GRACE _court_, Fenchurch street.

GRACE’S _alley_, Well street, Wellclose square.

GRAFTON _buildings_, Long lane.

GRAFTON _street_, Soho.

GRAHAM’S _Almshouse_, in Hog lane, Soho, was founded in the year 1686,
by Mrs. Graham, for four decayed Clergymen’s widows, their maiden
daughters, or other gentlewomen, each of whom has a handsome
apartment, and 10_l._ _per annum_; and for fuel and a servant to
attend them all, the additional sum of 10_l._ a year.

GRANGE, Near the King’s road.

GRANGE _court_, Carey street, Lincoln’s Inn fields.

GRANGE _lane_, Bermondsey.

GRANGE _road_, Bermondsey.

GRANGE _street_, Chapel street, in Red Lion street, Holborn.

GRANGE _walk_, King John’s court, Bermondsey.

GRANGE _yard_, Bermondsey fields.

GRANGER’S _rents_, Near Barbican.†

GRAPE _street_, By Little Moorfields.

GRASSCHURCH _street_, Cornhill; now generally called and spelt
Gracechurch street.

GRASSHOPPER _alley_, 1. Fore street.* 2. Whitecross street.*

GRASSHOPPER _court_, Charterhouse street.*

GRAVEL _court_, Old Gravel lane.*

GRAVEL _lane_, 1. Near the Falcon stairs. 2. Houndsditch.

GRAVEL _street_, Brook street, Holborn.

GRAVEL _walk_, 1. Blue Anchor alley. 2. Collingwood street.

GRAVE’S _dock_, Fore street, Limehouse.†

GRAVE’S _wharf_, near Fishmongers hall, Thames street.†

GRAVESEND, a town in Kent, twenty-two miles from London, situated on the
Thames, opposite to Tilbury Fort, about six miles east from Dartford,
and about the same distance from Rochester. In the reign of Richard
II. the French and Spaniards sailed up the Thames to this town, and
having plundered and burnt it, carried away most of the inhabitants.
To enable the town to recover this loss, the Abbot of St. Mary le
Grace on Tower hill, to whom King Richard II. had granted a manor
belonging to Gravesend, obtained that the inhabitants of Gravesend and
Milton should have the sole privilege of carrying passengers by water
from hence to London, at 2_d._ a head, or 4_s._ the whole fare; but
the fare is now raised to 9_d._ a head in the tilt boat, and 1_s._ in
the wherry. The former must not take in above forty passengers, and
the latter no more than ten. The Watermens company are by act of
parliament obliged to provide officers at Billingsgate and at
Gravesend, who at every time of high water by night and day, are at
their respective places to ring publicly a bell set up for that
purpose, for fifteen minutes, to give notice to the tilt boats and
wherries to put off; and coaches ply at Gravesend at the landing of
people from London to carry them to Rochester. King Henry VIII. raised
a platform here and at Milton, and these towns were incorporated by
Queen Elizabeth, by the name of the Portreve (which has been changed
to that of Mayor) the jurats and inhabitants of Gravesend and Milton.
The whole town being burnt down in 1727 the parliament in the year
1731 granted 5000_l._ for rebuilding its church. Here is a very
handsome charitable foundation, Mr. Henry Pinnock having in 1624,
given twenty-one dwelling houses and a house for a master weaver to
employ the poor: and a good estate is also settled for the repairs.

Within a few years past, great improvements have been made in the
lands near this town, by turning them into kitchen gardens, with the
produce of which Gravesend not only supplies the neighbouring places
for several miles round, but also sends great quantities to the London
markets, particularly of asparagus, that of Gravesend being preferred
to that of Battersea. As all outward bound ships are obliged to anchor
in this road till they have been visited by the custom house officers,
and as they generally stay here to take in provisions, the town is
full of seamen, and in a constant hurry.

GRAY FRIARS. See GREY FRIARS.

GRAY’S _court_, Duke street, Piccadilly.†

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GRAY’S INN, on the north side of Holborn, near the Bars, is so called
from its being formerly the residence of the ancient and noble family
of Gray of Wilton, who in the reign of Edward III. demised it to
several students of the law. It is one of the four Inns of Court, and
is inhabited by Barristers and Students of the law, and also by such
gentlemen of independent fortune, as chuse this place, for the sake of
an agreeable retirement, or the pleasure of the walks.

The members of the house are to be in commons a fortnight every term,
for which they pay 16_s._

The officers and servants belonging to the Inn, are, a Treasurer, a
Steward, a chief and three under butlers, an upper and under cook, a
pannier man, a gardener, the steward, the chief butler’s men, and two
porters.

This Inn has its chief entrance out of Holborn through a large gate,
though it is seated far backwards, and though with its gardens it
takes up almost all the west side of Gray’s Inn lane. It consists of
several well-built courts, particularly Holborn court, Coney court,
and another at the entrance into the garden. The hall where the
gentlemen of the society dine and sup is large and commodious; but the
chapel is too small; it is a Gothic structure, and has marks of much
greater antiquity than any other part of the building.

The chief ornament belonging to this Inn, is its spacious garden, the
benefit of which is enjoyed by the public, every body decently dressed
being allowed the recreation of walking in it every day. This garden
consists of gravel walks, between vistas of very lofty trees, of grass
plats, agreeable slopes, and a long terras with a portico at each end;
this terras is ascended by a handsome flight of steps. Till lately
there was a summer-house erected by the great Sir Francis Bacon, upon
a small mount: it was open on all sides, and the roof supported by
slender pillars. A few years ago the uninterrupted prospect of the
neighbouring fields, as far as the hills of Highgate and Hampstead,
was obstructed by a handsome row of houses on the north; since which
the above summer-house has been levelled, and many of the trees cut
down to lay the garden more open. The part represented in the print is
the lower side of Coney court, containing the chapel, hall, &c. and is
the principal square of this Inn (which is a very considerable one)
belonging to the gentlemen of the long robe.

GRAY’S INN _lane_, Holborn Bars.

GRAY’S INN LIBRARY, which is kept in Coney court, Gray’s Inn, consists
of a considerable number of books in several languages, and on
different branches of learning; but more particularly on law, for the
use of the gentlemen of the Inn.

GRAY’S INN _passage_, 1. Field court, Gray’s Inn. 2. Red Lion street,
Holborn.

GRAYS THURROCK, a town in Essex, nineteen miles from London, so called
from its ancient Lords the Grays of Codnor. It has a very good market
for corn and cattle.

GREAT ALMONRY, Tothill street, Westminster. See ALMONRY.

GREAT ARTHUR _street_, Goswell street.†

GREAT ASHENTREE _court_, White Friars.‡

GREAT BACON _yard_, Goswell street.

GREAT BEAR _key_, Thames street. See BEAR KEY.

GREAT BLACK HORSE _court_, Aldersgate street.*

GREAT CARTER _lane_, St. Paul’s church yard.†

GREAT CHAPEL _street_, Oxford street.

GREAT COCK _alley_, 1. Fore street, Cripplegate.* 2. Redcross street.*

GREAT COW _alley_, Whitecross street, Old street.*

GREAT DEAN’S _yard_, Westminster.

GREAT DICE _key_, Thames street.

GREAT DISTAFF _lane_, Old Change.*

GREAT EARL _street_, Seven Dials.†

GREAT EASTCHEAP, Canon street, Fish street hill. See EASTCHEAP.

GREAT ELBOW _lane_, College hill.

GREAT FRIARS GATE, Fleet street: so called from its leading into White
Friars.

GREAT GARDEN, St. Catharine’s lane.

GREAT GEORGE _street_, 1. A fine new built street, that extends from the
end of Bridge street into St. James’s Park. The great uniformity
observed in the buildings, their grandeur, and the length and
straightness of this street, form a noble vista, terminated at the end
next the park by very handsome iron gates supported on stone piers,
and by the tall trees of the park, which at a distance resemble a
thick grove. 2. A very noble street which extends from Hanover square
into Conduit street; this is also broad and well paved, and has
several very fine houses built and inhabited by noblemen and people of
the first rank. See HANOVER SQUARE.

The other streets of this name, are, 3. By Great New George street,
Spitalfields: and 4. by King street, Westminster. These streets were
thus named in honour of his present Majesty and his royal father.

GREAT HART _street_, James’s street, Long Acre.

GREAT HERMITAGE _street_, in the Hermitage.

GREAT JERMAIN _street_, Near Piccadilly.†

GREAT KIRBY _street_, Hatton Garden.†

GREAT KNIGHTRIDER’S _street_, by Addle hill.

GREAT LAMB _alley_, Blackman street.

GREAT MADDOX _street_, Hanover square.

GREAT MARLBOROUGH _street_, Poland street.

GREAT MONTAGUE _court_, Little Britain.

GREAT MONTAGUE _street_, near Brick lane, Spitalfields.

GREAT MOOR _yard_, St. Martin’s lane, Charing Cross.

GREAT NEW _street_, Fetter lane.

GREAT NEWPORT _street_, near Long Acre.

GREAT NOTTINGHAM _street_, Plumtree street.

GREAT OLD BAILEY, Ludgate hill.

GREAT ORMOND _street_, Red Lion street, Holborn.

GREAT ORMOND _yard_, Ormond street.

GREAT PEARL _street_, Grey Eagle street, Spitalfields.

GREAT PETER _street_, by Great Poulteney street.

GREAT POULTENEY _street_, near Brewer’s street, Soho.

GREAT QUEEN _street_, 1. Lincoln’s Inn fields. 2. Westminster.

GREAT RIDER _street_, St. James’s street.

GREAT RUSSEL _street_, 1. Bloomsbury, from the Duke of Bedford’s house
near it. 2. Covent garden, from its being built upon the same Duke’s
estate.

GREAT ST. ANDREW’S _street_, Seven Dials.

GREAT ST. ANN’S _lane_, by Orchard street, Westminster.

GREAT ST. HELEN’S _court_, Bishopsgate street within. See _St._ HELEN’S.

GREAT ST. THOMAS APOSTLE’S _lane_, by Queen street, Cheapside. See _St._
THOMAS APOSTLES.

GREAT STONE _stairs_, Ratcliff.

GREAT SUFFOLK _street_, Cockspur street.

GREAT SWALLOW _street_, Piccadilly.

GREAT SWORDBEARERS _alley_, Chiswell street.

GREAT TOWER _hill_, by Great Tower street.

GREAT TOWER _street_, the broad part on the east end.

GREAT TRINITY _lane_, Bow lane.

GREAT TURNSTILE, Holborn.

GREAT TURNSTILE _alley_, High Holborn.

GREAT WARDOUR _street_, Oxford street.

GREAT WARNER _street_, Cold Bath street.

GREAT WHITE LION _street_, Seven Dials.

GREAT WILD _street_, Great Queen street, Lincoln’s Inn fields.

GREAT WINCHESTER _street_, Broad street, London Wall.

GREAT WINDMILL _street_, Piccadilly.

GREAT _yard_, Parish street, Horselydown.

GREAT YORK _street_, Cock lane, Shoreditch.

GREAVE’S _court_, George yard, Whitechapel.†

GREEN _alley_, 1. Broad Sanctuary. 2. Coleman street, Wapping. 3. St.
Saviour’s Dock. 4. Tooley street.

GREEN ARBOUR _court_, 1. French alley. 2. Lambeth hill, Thames street.
3. Little Moorfields. 4. Little Old Bailey.

GREEN BANK, 1. Horselydown. 2. Coleman street, Wapping. 3. St. Olave
street. 4. Wapping.

_Board of_ GREEN CLOTH, a court of justice continually sitting in the
King’s house. This court is under the Lord Steward of the King’s
houshold, and is composed of the Treasurer of the houshold, the
Comptroller, Cofferer, Master of the houshold, two clerks of the Green
Cloth, and two clerks comptrollers; and receives its name from a green
cloth spread over the table, at which they sit.

In the absence of the Lord Steward, the Treasurer of the King’s house,
in conjunction with the Comptroller, and other officers of the board,
together with the Steward of the Marshalsea, have power to determine
treasons, felonies and other crimes committed within the verge. By the
direction and allowance of this board, the Cofferer pays the wages of
the King’s servants above and below stairs, and the bills for
provisions. Also before this board the Averner to the Master of the
horse lays the accompts of the stables for horse meat, livery wages,
and board wages, in order to be passed and allowed. See the article
LORD STEWARD OF THE KING’S HOUSHOLD.

GREEN COAT HOSPITAL, Tothill fields. Several of the inhabitants of
Westminster having resolved to settle an hospital like that of Christ
Church in the city of London, where poor orphans might not only be
furnished with all the necessaries of life, but instructed in manual
arts, in the year 1633 obtained a charter from King Charles I. by
which they were constituted a body politic and corporate, by the
appellation of _The Governors of the hospital of St. Margaret’s
Westminster, of the foundation of King Charles_; to consist of twenty
Governors, inhabitants of Westminster, with the right of purchasing
lands, tenements, &c. in mortmain, to the value of 500_l._ _per
annum_. But the civil war soon after breaking out, in a manner quashed
this noble design. However, by the charitable benefactions of King
Charles II. and others, the estate amounts to above 300_l._ a year,
and there are at present twenty boys maintained upon this foundation.
_Maitland._

GREEN _court_, 1. Green Bank, Wapping. 2. Knaves Acre. 3. Little
Minories. 4. Marshal street, Shoreditch.

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GREEN DRAGON _alley_, 1. Narrow street, Limehouse.* 2. Surry street, in
the Strand.* 3. By Wapping Wall.*

GREEN DRAGON _court_, 1. Broadway, Westminster.* 2. Cow lane.* 3. Foul
lane.* 4. New Crane, Wapping.* 5. Old Change.*

GREEN DRAGON _yard_, 1. Long lane, West Smithfield.* 2. Whitechapel.*

GREEN ELM _court_, in the Savoy.

GREENFORD, in the vale, a village two miles south of Harrow on the Hill.

GREENHILL’S _rents_, Smithfield bars.†

GREENLAND _stairs_. Deptford.

GREEN _lane_, 1. Lambeth. 2. Tottenham Court fields.

GREEN LETTICE _court_, Fore street, Cripplegate.*

GREEN LETTICE _lane_, Canon street.*

GREEN _market_, Leadenhall street.

GREEN _Park_, between St. James’s Park and Hyde Park. This Park adds
greatly to the pleasantness of the houses which are situated so as to
overlook it, among which the most conspicuous by far is that lately
built by Mr. Spencer. Altogether it appears very noble, but
considering it as a front, we are disappointed in not seeing any
entrance, which surely should have been made conspicuous. The pediment
being extended over so many columns is too large and heavy, and the
bow window has no relation at all to the building, and offends every
eye; but the figures and vases on the top have indeed a fine effect.
The irregularity of the other side or principal front (which is in St.
James’s Place) is excusable, as the adjoining houses can’t yet be
purchased, but the flatness of it, having no columns or great
projections, will always make it subordinate to the side that fronts
the Park, which is that we have given a view of in the print.

GREEN’S _court_, Lothbury.†

GREEN’S _rents_, Bride lane, Fleet street.†

GREEN SCHOOL _court_, London Wall.

GREEN _street_, 1. Near Grosvenor square. 2. Leicester fields. 3.
Theobald’s row.

GREEN _walk_, 1. Broad Wall. 2. Gravel lane.

GREENWICH, a very pleasant town in Kent, situated six miles from London,
has been the birth place of several of our Monarchs, particularly
Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth: and here King Edward VI. died. Their
palace was first erected by Humphry Duke of Gloucester, who named it
Placentia. This palace was enlarged by Henry VII. and completed by
Henry VIII. but being afterwards suffered to run to ruin, was pulled
down by King Charles II. who began another, a most magnificent
edifice, and lived to see the first wing finished. See GREENWICH
HOSPITAL.

King Charles II. also enlarged the park, walled it round, planted it,
and caused a royal observatory to be erected on the top of the steep
of the hill. This edifice his Majesty erected for the use of the
celebrated Mr. Flamstead, and it still retains the name of that great
astronomer: his Majesty likewise furnished it with mathematical
instruments for astronomical observations, and a deep dry well for
observing the stars in the day time.

That which is properly the palace here, is an edifice of no great
extent, and it is now converted into apartments for the Governor of
the Royal Hospital, and the Ranger of the park. This park is well
stocked with deer, and affords a noble and delightful view of the fine
hospital, the river Thames, and the city of London.

Greenwich is said to contain 1350 houses. Its parish church, which has
been lately rebuilt by the Commissioners for erecting the fifty new
churches, is a very handsome structure, dedicated to St. Alphage,
Archbishop of Canterbury, who is said to have been slain by the Danes
in the year 1012, on the spot where the church now stands. There is a
college at the end of the town, fronting the Thames, for the
maintenance of 20 decayed old housekeepers, twelve out of Greenwich,
and eight who are to be alternately chosen from Snottisham and
Castle-Rising in Norfolk. This is called the Duke of Norfolk’s
College, though it was founded and endowed, in 1613, by Henry Earl of
Northampton, the Duke of Norfolk’s brother, and by him committed to
the care of the Mercers company. To this college belongs a chapel, in
which the Earl’s body is laid, which, as well as his monument, was
removed hither a few years ago, from the chapel of Dover Castle. The
pensioners, besides meat, drink, and lodging, are allowed 1_s._ 6_d._
a week, with a gown every year, linen once in two years, and hats once
in four years.

In the year 1560 Mr. Lambard, author of the Perambulation of Kent,
also built and founded an hospital called Queen Elizabeth’s College,
said to be the first erected by an English protestant. There are
likewise two charity schools in this parish, one founded by Sir
William Boreman, Knt. for twenty boys, who are cloathed, boarded, and
taught; they wear green coats and caps: and the other by Mr. John
Roan, who left his estate for teaching also twenty boys reading,
writing, and arithmetic, and allowing 2_l._ _per annum_ for each boy’s
cloaths. These wear grey coats.

The river Thames is here very broad, and the channel deep; and at some
very high tides the water is salt, though it is usually sweet and
fresh.

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GREENWICH HOSPITAL, stands on the spot, where stood the palace of
several of our Kings. The first wing of this noble and superb edifice,
erected by K. Charles II. was designed to be applied to the same use.
Indeed from the magnificence of the structure, it can scarcely be
taken for any thing less than the palace of a great monarch. However
King William III. being very desirous of promoting the trade,
navigation, and naval strength of this kingdom, by inviting great
numbers of his subjects to betake themselves to the sea, gave this
noble palace, and several other edifices, with a considerable spot of
ground, for the use of those English seamen and their children, who by
age, wounds, or other accidents, should be disabled from farther
service at sea, and for the widows and children of such as were slain
in fighting at sea, against the enemies of their country. King William
also by his letters patent, in 1694, appointed commissioners for the
better carrying on his pious intentions, and therein desired the
assistance of his good subjects, as the necessity of his affairs did
not permit him to advance so considerable a sum towards this work, as
he desired. In conformity to this request, many benefactions were made
both in that and the succeeding reigns, to this noble charity, which,
according to the tables hung up at the entrance of the hall, amount to
58,209_l._ and afterwards the estate of the Earl of Derwentwater, who
bore a principal part in the rebellion in 1715, amounting to 6000_l._
_per annum_, was given by parliament to this hospital. The first range
had cost King Charles II. 36,000_l._ and another was ordered to be
built on the same model: this has been completed with equal
magnificence, and the whole structure entirely finished.

The front to the Thames consists of these two ranges of stone
buildings, with the Governor’s house at the back part in the center,
behind which the park, well planted with trees, rises with a noble
ascent. These buildings, between which is a large area, perfectly
correspond with each other, and each range is terminated by a very
noble dome.

In each front to the Thames, two ranges of coupled Corinthian columns
finely wrought, support their pediments, and the same order is
continued in pilasters along the building. The projection of the
entablatures gives an agreeable diversity of light and shade. In the
center of each part, between these ranges of Corinthian columns, is
the door, which is of the Doric order, and adorned above with a tablet
and pediment. Within the height of these lofty columns are two series
of windows, enlightening two floors. The undermost, which are the
smallest, have rustic cases crowned with pediments; while the upper
series, which are larger, and more lofty, are adorned with the orders,
and with upright pointed pediments. Over these is an Attic story; the
entablature of the Corinthian columns and pilasters supports a regular
Attic course: the pilasters of this order rising over every column,
and pilaster of the Corinthian below, between which the windows are
regularly disposed, and the top is crowned with a handsome balustrade.

The buildings, which are continued from these, and face the area,
correspond with them, though in a finer, and more elegant manner. In
the center of both is a range of columns supporting a pediment, and at
each corner a range of Corinthian pilasters. The front is rusticated,
and there are two series of windows. The domes at the end, which are
120 feet high, are supported on coupled columns, as are the porticos
below; and under one of these is the chapel, which is adorned on the
inside with the greatest elegance and beauty.

On the sides of the gate which opens to these buildings from the park,
are placed a large celestial and terrestrial globe, in which the stars
are gilt; and in the center of the area, is fixed on a pedestal, a
statue of his Majesty King George II.

The hall of this hospital is finely painted by Sir James Thornhill,
particularly the ceiling and upper end; on the latter are represented
in an alcove, the late Princess Sophia, King George I. King George II.
Queen Caroline, the Queen Dowager of Prussia, Frederic Prince of
Wales, the Duke of Cumberland, and the five Princesses, the daughters
of his present Majesty. On the ceiling over the alcove are her late
Majesty Queen Anne and Prince George of Denmark: and on the ceiling of
the hall are King William and Queen Mary, with several fine
emblematical figures. All strangers who see this hall pay two pence
each, and this income is applied to the support of the mathematical
school, for the sons of sailors.

For the better support of this hospital every seaman in the royal navy
and in the service of the merchants pays 6_d._ a month. This is
stopped out of the pay of all sailors, and delivered in at the Six
penny Receiver’s office on Tower hill. And therefore a seaman who can
produce an authentic certificate of his being disabled, and rendered
unfit for the sea service, by defending any ship belonging to his
Majesty’s British subjects, or in taking any ship from the enemy, may
be admitted into this hospital, and receive the same benefit from it,
as if he had been in his Majesty’s immediate service.

There are at present near 2000 old or disabled seamen, and an hundred
boys, the sons of seamen, instructed in navigation, and bred up for
the service of the royal navy: but there are no out-pensioners, as at
Chelsea. Each of the mariners has a weekly allowance of seven loaves,
weighing sixteen ounces each; three pounds of beef; two of mutton; a
pint of pease; a pound and a quarter of cheese; two ounces of butter;
fourteen quarts of beer, and 1_s._ a week tobacco money: the tobacco
money of the boatswains is 2_s._ 6_d._ a week each; that of their
mates 1_s._ 6_d._ and that of the other officers in proportion to
their rank. Besides which, each common pensioner receives once in two
years, a suit of blue cloaths, a hat, three pair of stockings, two
pair of shoes, five neck cloths, three shirts, and two night caps.

This hospital has about 100 Governors, composed of the nobility, great
officers of state, and persons in high posts under the King. The
principal officers of the house, with their annual salaries, are:

The Governor £1000

Lieutenant Governor 300

Treasurer 200

Three Captains, each 200

Six Lieutenants, each 100

Two Chaplains, each 100

A Physician and Surgeon, 200
each

A Clerk of the cheque 100

Auditor 100

GREENWICH _alley_, Brickhill lane.

GREENWICH _street_, Dowgate wharf.

GREENWOOD’S _court_, Nightingale lane.†

GREEN _yard_, 1. Basinghall Postern. 2. East Smithfield. 3. Fore street,
Cripplegate. 4. Goswell street. 5. Green Bank, Wapping. 6.
Horselydown. 7. Milk yard, New Gravel lane. 8. Pepper alley. 9. Tooley
street. 10. Upper Ground street. 11. White’s yard, Rosemary lane.

GREGORY’S _court_, High Holborn.

_St._ GREGORY’S, so called from its being dedicated to Pope Gregory the
Great, who sent Austin the Monk to convert the English, stood at the
south west corner of St. Paul’s cathedral; but being burnt by the fire
of London in 1666, and not rebuilt, the parish was by act of
parliament annexed to the church of St. Mary Magdalen in Old Fish
street.

GREG’S _court_, Goodman’s yard.†

GRENADIER’S _mews_, Portland street.†

GRESHAM’S _Almshouse_ in Broad street, on the west side of Gresham
College, was founded by Sir Thomas Gresham in the year 1575, for eight
poor men; the trust of which he committed to the Lord Mayor and
Commonalty of London, who annually pay these Almsmen 6_l._ 13_s._
4_d._ each, and a gown every other year.

_S. Wale delin._ _J. Taylor sc._
_Gresham College._
]

GRESHAM COLLEGE, situated within the walls between Bishopsgate street
and Broad street, and was formerly the dwelling of the founder Sir
Thomas Gresham, Knt. a merchant of London, and one of the company of
Mercers, who after he had built the Royal Exchange, bequeathed half
the revenue thereof to the Mayor and Commonalty of London, and their
successors, and the other moiety to the company of Mercers, in trust
that the Mayor and Commonalty should find in all times to come four
able persons to read in his dwelling house in Bishopsgate street,
lectures on divinity, astronomy, geometry, and Music, and allow each
of them besides handsome lodgings in that house, the sum of 50_l._ a
year: and that the company of Mercers should find three other able men
to read lectures in the civil law, rhetoric, and physic, pay them the
same salary, and allow them the same accommodations. These salaries
and other bequests of Sir Thomas Gresham, amounting in the whole to
603_l._ are payable out of the rents of the Royal Exchange, and there
is a grand committee for the management of the affairs of this college
and the Exchange, which consists of four Aldermen, whereof the Lord
Mayor is always one; twelve of the company of Mercers, and eight of
the Common Council, for the city. These lectures were first read in
Trinity term, 1597, and with some interruptions have been continued to
the present time.

The order of reading every term time is, Monday, divinity; Tuesday,
civil law; Wednesday, astronomy; Thursday, geometry; Friday, rhetoric;
Saturday, anatomy in the morning, and music in the afternoon. _Stow_,
_last edit._ But since the institution of the Royal Society, these
lectures are in a manner deserted, the professors having seldom above
three or four auditors, and those of the most ordinary people. The
print represents the inside of the quadrangle in its present state.

GRESHAM COLLEGE _court_, Bishopsgate street.†

GREVIL _street_, Leather lane.†

GREY-COAT HOSPITAL, Tothill fields, Westminster. In the year 1698 this
charity school was erected in St. Margaret’s parish, for the education
of poor children, and named _The Grey-coat School_, from the colour of
the children’s cloaths; but the trustees being at length greatly
encouraged by charitable contributions, in the year 1701, not only
increased the number of children, but supplied them with all the
necessaries of life, in a large and commodious building near Tothill
fields: and for the encouragement of so laudable an undertaking Queen
Anne, in 1706, by her letters patent, constituted the trustees of this
school a body politic and corporate, by the name of _The Governors of
the Grey-coat hospital in Tothill fields, of the royal foundation of
Queen Anne_, with the power of purchasing lands, tenements, &c. in
mortmain, to the yearly amount of 2000_l._ These children, besides
being taught the usual learning, are employed in spinning, knitting,
sewing, &c. to inure them early to industry; and having attained the
necessary qualifications at school, they are put out apprentices.

This hospital, in the year 1727, was in so flourishing a condition
that it contained eighty boys, and fifty girls, in which year the
charge of all its disbursements amounted to 1457_l._ 7_s._ 6_d._ At
Michaelmas 1739, a mathematical school was erected, and a proper
master employed to instruct the boys in the art of navigation, to fit
them for the service of their country, several of whom since the
erection of this school have been put apprentice to captains in the
King’s service.

The expence of each child is about 8_l._ a year, besides the salaries
of the masters and mistresses, the wages of servants, and other
charges attending the hospital.

GREY EAGLE _street_, Brick lane, Spitalfields.*

GREY FRIARS, a court in Newgate street, near the gate, adjoining on one
side to Christ’s hospital. Here, in the reign of King Henry III. was
erected a convent of Franciscans or Grey Friars, and some time after a
spacious church, which was not compleatly finished till the year 1380,
tho’ it was consecrated in 1325. This church, which was 300 feet in
length, eighty-nine in breadth, and sixty-four feet two inches in
height from the ground to the roof, was built at different times, at
the expence of different persons, and among its benefactors were
several Queens of England. In the year 1429, Richard Whittington here
founded a library, 129 feet in length and thirty-one in breadth, which
was finished the following year, and within three years after
furnished with books. However, at the general suppression of
monasteries, the friery, with all the edifices belonging to it, was
surrendered to Henry VIII. and the ornaments and utensils taken away,
and applied to the King’s use: after which the church was shut up for
some time, and used as a storehouse for goods taken as prizes from the
French; but in January 1546, this church, with the friery, library,
chapter house, cloisters and gardens, were given by King Henry to the
Mayor and Commonalty of London, with the hospital of St. Bartholomew
in West Smithfield, the parishes of St. Nicholas and St. Ewin, and so
much of St. Sepulchre’s parish as is within Newgate, to be made one
parish belonging to the church in the Grey Friars, which was from
thenceforward to be called Christ Church. In short, in the year 1552,
the house of the Grey Friars began to be repaired for the reception of
poor fatherless children, and in November following near four hundred
were taken in. _Stow._ See CHRIST’S HOSPITAL.

GREYHOUND _alley_, 1. St. Mary Ax.* 2. Newgate street.*

GREYHOUND _court_, 1. Aldersgate street.* 2. St. Catharine’s lane.* 3.
Chick lane.* 4. Lamb street.* 5. Milford lane.* 6. Moor’s street,
Soho.*

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

GREYHOUND _lane_, Three Colts street.*

GREYHOUND _street_, Whitechapel.*

GREYHOUND _yard_, 1. Portpool lane.* 2. Upper Ground street.*

GREY PEA _alley_, Red Maid lane.

GREY’S _yard_, Duke street, Piccadilly.†

GRIDIRON _alley_, Whitechapel.*

GRIDIRON _court_, High Holborn.*

GRIFFIN _alley_, Blackman street.*

GRIFFIN _street_, Shadwell Dock.*

GRIFFIN _yard_, Long lane, West Smithfield.*

GRIFFIS’S _rents_, Barnaby street.†

GRIGG’S _court_, Goodman’s yard.†

GRIPEY _alley_, Artichoke lane.

GROCERS, the second of the twelve principal companies, was anciently
denominated Pepperers; but having changed their name to that of
Grocers, were under that denomination incorporated by letters patent
granted by King Edward III. in the year 1345, which were confirmed by
Henry VI. in 1429. These grants were afterwards confirmed by a new
charter of Charles I. in the year 1640, with an additional power of
searching and inspecting the goods and weights of all Grocers within
the city and suburbs of London, and three miles round. They had
anciently the management of the King’s beam in this city, with the
right of appointing a master-weigher, and four porters to attend it.

This corporation consists of a Prime and three other Wardens,
fifty-two Assistants, and one hundred and twenty-seven Liverymen,
whose fine upon admission is 20_l._ They have a great estate, out of
which they annually pay to the poor about 700_l._ _Maitland._

GROCERS _alley_, 1. In the Poultry.☐ 2. Shoreditch.

GROCERS HALL, on the north side of the Poultry, and at the farther end
of Grocers alley, is situated on a spot of ground purchased by the
Grocers company in the year 1411, of Robert Lord Fitzwalter, for three
hundred and twenty marks. The building is well designed for the
purpose of a common hall; and is not only a stately edifice, but is so
capacious, that for many years it served for the uses of the Bank of
England, which was kept in this hall, till the edifice in
Thread-needle street was erected for that purpose. The ancient stone
and brick building at the north west corner of the garden, inhabited
by the beadle of the company, is probably part of the ancient city
mansion of the noble family of Fitzwalter, and consequently the oldest
building within the city walls. _Maitland._

GROCERS HALL _yard_, Grocers alley.

GROCERS _rents_, East Smithfield.

GROOM PORTER, an officer of the King’s palace under the Lord
Chamberlain. It is his duty to see that his Majesty’s lodgings are
furnished with tables, chairs, stools and firing; to provide cards,
dice, &c. _Chamberlain’s Present State._

GROOM OF THE STOLE, the first Lord of the Bedchamber, who is groom of
the long robe or vestment worn by the King on solemn occasions, and
called the stole. It is his office to present or put on his Majesty’s
shirt every morning, and to order the things of the bedchamber. His
salary is 2000_l._ a year.

GROSVENOR’S _gate_, Grosvenor street.†

GROSVENOR’S _mews_, a street of stables near Grosvenor square.†

GROSVENOR’S _passage_, Grosvenor street.†

GROSVENOR _square_, is bounded on the north by Oxford road; on the east
by Hanover buildings; on the south by Mayfair; and on the west by Hyde
Park, It is however entirely surrounded with buildings, which are very
magnificent, though the fronts are far from being uniform, some of
them being entirely of stone, others of brick and stone, and others of
rubbed brick, with only their quoins, facios, windows and door cases
of stone. Some of them are adorned with stone columns of the several
orders, while others have only plain fronts. Indeed here is the
greatest variety of fine buildings that are any where to be met with
in so small a compass, and they are so far uniform, as to be all
sashed and to be pretty near of an equal height. The area of this
square contains about five acres, and in the middle is a large garden
surrounded with palisado pales placed upon a circular dwarf wall. This
garden is laid out into walks, and adorned with an equestrian statue
of King George I. gilt, which stands upon a pedestal in the center.

This square and the adjacent places are thus named from Sir Thomas
Grosvenor.

GROSVENOR _street_, 1. Horse ferry, Westminster.† 2. New Bond street.†

A list of Pictures that are at present hung up in the two first floors
of the house of Paul Methuen, Esq; in Grosvenor street.

N. B. In this list, after the description of the pictures, the names
of those by whom they are thought to be painted are added, for the
information of such as may be great admirers of the art of painting,
and lovers of pictures, and yet may not have knowledge or experience
enough in that art to distinguish the several hands by which they are
done.

But as it is very possible, and even probable, that the owner of them
may, for want of sufficient skill, have been mistaken in the naming of
the authors of some of them; tho’ at the same time he begs it may be
believed, that he has done nothing of that kind, without such reasons
for it, as appeared very good to him; nor has been guided in it by
partiality to the pictures, or any other consideration, but regard to
truth, which he always thought should take place of every thing: so
those who are better judges, are at liberty to name the pictures as
they please, and restore them to the authors to which they may think
they really belong.

On the FIRST FLOOR.
In the hall and stair case.
Over the chimney.

A naked boy blowing bubbles and treading on a death’s head, representing
Vanity, by Elizabetha Sirani.

Near the street door.

A large picture of dogs and foxes, by Peter Sneyders.

Over the door that goes into the first parlour.

A man’s head, by Giuseppe de Ribera, commonly call’d Il Spagnoletto.

On the landing place.

A large picture of David and Abigail, by Sir Peter Paul Rubens.

Over the door.

The adventure of Don Quixote and the barber, by a Spanish painter.

Fronting the landing place at the top.

The portrait of the Duchess of Mantua, grand daughter to the Emperor
Charles the Fifth, with her son in her lap, who was the last Duke of
Mantua, with some allegorical figures, armour, &c. by Giovanni
Benedetto Castiglione.

Under it.

A landscape, and a musical conversation, painted by Sir Peter Lely;
being the portraits of himself and his whole family, drawn by the
life.

Fronting the windows.

The judgment of Paris, by Gerard Lairest.

Under it.

The judgment of Midas, by the same hand.

Over the looking glass.

A young lad blowing bubbles, said to be painted by Hannibal Caracci.

In the first parlour.
Over the chimney.

A Dutch kermis or country fair, painted by Old Pieter Bruegel.

On each side of the chimney.

Next the window, the portrait of a Turk, by Rembrandt van Rijn.

David with the head of Goliath and his sling, by Leonello Spada.

Between the windows.

A man’s head, said to be that of Massaniello the fisherman who caused
the great revolution of Naples, by Salvator Rosa.

The portrait of Francisco de Taxis, the first inventor of the posts in
Europe, for which reason the direction of them has always remained in
one of his family in all the dominions that belongs to the house of
Austria, by a hand not certainly known.

Over the doors out of the hall,

The folly of spending our lives in the pursuit of love, wine, music and
play, an emblematical picture, by Johannes Schorel.

The Virgin, our Saviour, St. Mary Magdalen, St. Peter, St. John the
Baptist, and St. Jerome; by Jacobo Palma, senior, commonly called Old
Palma.

Over the marble table.

The birth of our Saviour, and the adoration of the shepherds, by Giac.
Bassan.

Under it, in the middle.

St. John the Baptist asleep in the desert, by Andrea del Sarto.

On both sides of it.

Two small sea pieces, a port in the Mediterranean, and a fight with the
Turks, by William Vanderveld, junior.

Under them, in the middle.

An emblematical picture, representing a guardian angel pointing out the
way to heaven to a soul, under the figure of a young girl, by Carlino
Dolce.

On both sides of it.

Two very highly finished landscapes on copper, by Salvator Rosa.

Between the two doors.

The portrait of the Duke of Richmond and Lenox, of the Stuart family, at
whole length, with a dog, by Sir Anthony Vandyck.

Over the door to the back parlour.

Vulcan at his forge, with the Cyclops, by Jacob Jordaans of Antwerp.

Over against the windows.
In the middle.

The head of our Saviour crown’d with thorns, by Ludovico Caracci.

On both sides of that.

Two fruit pieces, by Michael Angelo Pase, called Michael Angelo del
Campidoglio.

Under them, in the middle.

A Bacchanal in two colours, by Rubens.

On both sides of it.

A landscape with a robbery, and a battle, both painted by Giacomo
Cortese, commonly called Il Bourgognone.

Under them, in the middle.

A pretty large landscape and figures of Dutch boors, by Adrian Van
Ostade.

On both sides of it.

A stag hunting, and another of hern hawking, by Philip Woverman.

Under them.

Two conversations of boors within doors, by Adrian Van Ostade.

In the second parlour.
Over the chimney.

Lot and his two daughters, with the city of Sodom on fire, by Lorenzo
Lotti, a great imitator of Giorgione and Titian.

Over the closet doors.
Next the window.

The great amphitheatre at Rome, and other buildings, by Viviano
Cadahorra.

A sea port with buildings and ruins, by Salviouch, and the figures by
John Miele.

Over the door to the first parlour.

Omphale the mistress of Hercules, with the lion’s skin and his club by
her, by Augustin Caracci.

Over the two other doors.

Two battles in the stile of Bourgognone, but the hands not certainly
known.

In the passage room.
Over the doors.

A philosopher with a book in his hand, by Pier Francesco Mola.

Mary Magdalen, by Giacinto Brandi.

Our Saviour meditating on the sins of the world, by Giovanni Antonio
Regillio, a competitor of Titian’s, and commonly called Il Pordenone.

In the great room.
Over the door at which you go in.

The portrait of a young man on wood, by Andrea del Sarto.

Between that door and the window.

The head of St. James the apostle.

The head of St. John the evangelist.

N. B. These two last pictures are by
a hand that is not certainly known.

Under them.

A Bacchanal painted on copper, by Cornelius Polembergh.

Between the door and the wall.
In the middle.

A pretty large picture of our Saviour and the Samaritan woman, by
Giovanni Francesco Barbiori da Cento, commonly called Il Guercino.

On the side towards the door.

The Virgin and Child, by Il Cavalier Giovanni Lanfranchio.

On the side towards the wall.

Venus dressing, and Cupid holding her looking-glass, by Paolo Veronese.

Under them, in the middle.

The Virgin and Child, by Raphael de Urbino.

On the side towards the door.

The Virgin and Child in the clouds, and several angels, by Bartolomeo
Murillo.

On the side towards the wall.

The Virgin and our Saviour, by Carlo Cignani.

Next to the door.

The annunciation of the Virgin Mary, by Paolo Veronese.

Next to the wall.

The birth of our Saviour, &c. by Jacapo Robusti, commonly called
Tintoretto.

Over the chimney.

Tobit and the angel, by Michael Angelo Amerighi, commonly called Michael
Angelo Caravaggio.

Between the wall and the chimney.
In the middle.

The portrait of a man, by Antonio Allegri, commonly called Il Correggio.

Towards the wall.

The head of some Spanish general, by Giovanni Giachinette, commonly
called Il Bourgognone delle Teste.

Towards the chimney.

The portrait of the famous Hernando Cortes, conqueror of Mexico, by
Titiano Vecelli, called Il Titiano.

Under them.

A large battle in an oval, painted by Luca Jordano.

Between the chimney and farthest wall.
In the middle.

St. Sebastian, by Guido Reni.

Next the chimney.

The portrait of Sir Anthony Vandyck, painted by himself.

Next to the wall.

The portrait of a young girl, with a little dog asleep in her hands, by
Rembrandt van Rijn.

Under them.

A large oval battle, painted by Luca Jordano.

Over the closet door.

The portrait of a man with a book in his hand, said to be the famous
satirist Berni, by Giorgio Barbarelli, called Il Giorgione.

Between the door and the wall.

A she saint, with angels, by Pietro Berettini, called Pietro Cortona.

Under it, in the middle.

A small battle, by Bourgognone.

On both sides of it.

Two small pictures, done from the gallery of Archduke Leopold, the one
from Paris Bourdon, and the other from young Palma, by David Teniers.

Between the door and the window.

A large picture, representing our Saviour at the Pharisee’s house, and
Mary Magdalen anointing his feet, with the portrait of the person for
whom it was painted, as a servant waiting at table, by Carlo Dolce.

N.B. This picture is out of the stile of Carlo Dolce’s paintings, who
never before attempted so great a subject and composition; and was
done by him, after the drawing of Ludovico Cigoli.

Under it, in the middle.

The portraits of three of Henry the Seventh’s children, viz. Prince
Arthur, Henry the VIII. and Princess Mary, who was afterwards Queen of
France, and Duchess of Brandon, by a hand not certainly known.

On both sides of it.

Two pieces of the history of Judith, the one where she is presented to
Holofernes, and the other where she is entertained by him at a feast,
by Paolo Veronese.

On the SECOND FLOOR.
In the dining room.
Over the door as you go into it.

A fortune teller, with several figures consulting him, by Giorgio
Barbarelli, called Il Giorgione.

Over the door.

The history of Tancred and Erminia, out of Tasso, by Pietro Berettini,
called Pietro de Cortona.

Between the doors.

A large picture, representing the baptism of our Saviour by St. John in
the river Jordan, with angels, by Guido Reni.

Between the wall and middle door.

A Bacchanal, with Silenus and satyrs, by Jacob Jordaans of Antwerp.

Under it.

A large landscape, by Claude Gille, commonly called Claude de Lorraine.

Between that door and the wall.

The Virgin and our Saviour, St. John the Baptist and his lamb, St.
Peter, and the three cardinal virtues, Faith, Charity, and Hope, by
Titiano Vecelli, called Il Titiano.

N.B. This is an emblematical picture, by which the painter meant to
represent the several virtues that are necessary to form the
character of a good Christian.

Under it, in the middle.

The holy family, by Paolo Veronese; the saint which is represented in
armour, being the portrait of Paolo himself.

Next to the door.

A landscape and naked figures, by Cornelius Polembergh.

Next to the wall.

The flight into Egypt, by Filippo Lauri.

Between the wall and chimney.

Scipio and the fair captive at Carthagena, by Pietro de Cortona.

Under that.

A battle, by Giacomo Cortese, called Il Bourgognone.

Between the chimney and the window.

The dead body of our Saviour, with the Virgin Mary, and St. John, by
Hannibal Caracci.

Under it.

A landscape, representing a temple of Bacchus, and the sun setting, by
Claude Gille, commonly called Claude de Lorraine.

Dressing room.
Over the chimney.

The ordination of St. Dennis, patron of France, by Eustache le Sueur.

Between the chimney and the window.

Women at work by candle light, by Giacomo Bassan.

Under it, in the middle.

The annunciation of the blessed Virgin, with God the Father, and several
angels in the clouds, by Francesco Albani.

N.B. This picture belonged to Pope Innocent X. as may be seen by his
arms on the back side of it; and the frame, which is of silver, was
made by the famous statuary Alessandro Algardi.

Under that.

St. Augustine in an ecstasy, contemplating the mystery of the holy
Trinity, and the incarnation of our Saviour; a very high finished
sketch by Vandyck, of the finest picture he ever painted, which is in
the church of St. Augustine at Antwerp.