possessors, and seized by the emperor. Thus James's daughter's family was ruined, and a Protestant kingdom, added to Roman Catholic power, by the unaccountable neglect of the English monarch. The princess Sophia, youngest daughter of Frederick and Elizabeth, and widow of prince Ernest, duke of Brunswick Lunenburg, and elector of Hanover, was declared by act of parliament, in the reign of William III. in failure of the issue of princess (afterwards queen) Anne, the next successor in the Protestant line, to the crown of England. His majesty George III. is her heir in the fourth generation. DEVEREUX COURT, has a passage to ESSEX COURT, Temple; the family name, and title of queen Elizabeth's unfortunate favourite *. Farther • Devereux Court is also worthy of notice for being the residence of a very eminent artist. On the 4th of June, 1764, the king's birth-day, Mr. ARNOLD, a watchmaker, waited on the king with a curious repeating watch, which he had constructed by his sovereign's command. He had also the honour of being introduced to the princess dowager of Wales, his majesty's mother, and the queen's. brother, the prince of Mecklenburg Strelitz, who were all pleased to evince their approbation of such an extraordinary piece of mechanical excellence. The particulars of this curious repeating watch:-The movement complete, two pennyweights two grains, and an eighth of a grain.Great wheel and fuzee, two grains and three-fourths.-Second wheel and pinion, three-fourths of a grain.-Barrel and main spring, three grains and a half.—Third wheel and pinion, a ninth part of a grain.— -Fourth wheel and pinion, a tenth part of a grain.-Cylinder wheel and pinion, a sixteenth part of a grain.-Balance, pendulum, cylinder, spring, and collet, two-thirds of a grain.-The pendulum spring, three hundredth part of a grain. -The chain, one-half of a grain.- Barrel and main spring, one grain and three quarters.-Great wheel and ` rotchet, one grain.-Second wheel and pinion, seventh part of a grain. -Third wheel and pinion, eighth part of a grain.-Fourth wheel and pinion, ninth part of a grain.-Fly wheel and pinion, seventeenth part of a grain.-Fly pinion, twentieth part of a grain.-Hour hammer, onehalf of a grain.—Quarter hammer, one-half of a grain.—Rack, chain, and pully, one grain, and one-third of a grain.-Quarter and half quarter rack, two-thirds of a grain.-The quarter and half quarter snail and cannon pinion, two-thirds of a grain.-The all or nothing piece, one-half of a grain.-Two motion wheels, one grain.-Steel Farther eastward stands ESSEX STREET, formed on the site of an antient mansion, built on the site of the outer Temple, by Walter Stapleton, bishop of Exeter, a favourite with his sovereign, but unfortunately hated by the factious populace. He was seized by the mob, beheaded in Cheapside, and buried beneath a heap of sand before this house, which he had intended for the residence of the prelates belonging to the sce of Exeter. The mansion was said to have been very magnificent. Bishop Lacy added the great hall in the reign of Henry VI. and it was called EXETER HOUSE. But in the times of ecclesiastical depredation, the pious Catholic, lord Paget, made no conscience of laying violent hands upon the premises, which he considered as lawful plunder. By him the house was greatly improved, and it obtained the name of PAGET HOUSE. It was here that the protector Somerset, formed the plan of assassinating such of the counoil as were averse to his mea-sures. The horrid suggestion, however, turned to the ruin of the projector. In the reign of Elizabeth, the estate was in the possession of Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, who changed the name to LEICESTER HOUSE. Having left it by will to Robert Devereux, earl of Essex, who had married his daughter, it assumed the name of the latter nobleman, and is called ESSEX HOUSE to the present day. "The valiant and accomplished earl of Essex, who was the object of the queen's, as well as the people's affection, was very ill qualified for a court; as he was as honest and open in his enmity, as he was sincere in his friendship. He was above the little arts of dissimulation, and seemed to think it a prostitution of his dignity to put up with an affront even from the queen herself. His adversaries, who were cool and deliberate in their malice, knew how to avail themselves of the warmth and openness of his temper, and se dial plate, with gold figures, three grains and an half.-The Hour snail and star, one-half of a grain, and the sixteenth part of a grain.— The size of the watch was something less than a silver two-pence; containing one hundred and twenty different parts, and all together weighed no more than five pennyweights, seven grains, and three-fourths. cretly eretly drove him to those fatal extremities, to which the violence of his nature seemed to have hurried him; the consequence was his decapitation on the 23d of February, 1600-1,' Essex House was inhabited by the Palsgrave during his residence in London, and afterwards by the son of the earl of Essex, who was the parliament general. In process of time it became neglected, and was appropriated to various uses. After having been an auction room, it has of late years been converted into a chapel, for the use of those who profess Unitarian doctrines, as it still continues. The Unitarians, though they constitute a branch of Socinianism, do not admit all its doctrines. A copious account of this religious sect is given in Lindsey's Historical View of Unitarianism. Mr. Lindsey is the resident chaplain. This gentleman gave up the valuable living of Catterick, in Yorkshire, to unite himself to those opinions x fee b of faith. X On the opposite side of the Strand, among the new. buildings forming Picket Street, is an entrance into SHIP YARD, where there is a stately house of the mode of architecture which prevailed during the reign of queen Elizabeth. Mr. Moser seems to think that it was afterwards the Ship tavern. CROWN COURT took its name from the CROWN TAVERN, situated on its site. Here was formerly a palace belonging to the bishops of Bath and Wells. CROWN PLACE, and Mr. William Stratford's Printing Office, now stand upon the plot of the house and garden †. • Granger. A handsome "I have been informed," says Mr. Moser, "that the large old house, which was formerly at the back of the Swan public house, and upon the site of which, and its garden, Crown Place is built, was once ccupied by the bishop of Bath and Wells; perhaps after admiral lord Thomas Seymour had obtained from Edward VI. Hampton Place, wherein the bishops of that see formerly resided, and on the site of which Arundel Street, &c. was erected. This palace was within these thirty years in existence, it was let out in tenements; a leather-dresser VOL. IV. No. 2. T occupied X A handsome arched way, in the new buildings, leads to St. CLEMENT'S INN. This is an inn of Chancery. Here students of the law had their inns or lodging about the year 1478; it is said to have descended to the earls of Clare from Sir William Holles, lord mayor of London, anno 1539, to whom it passed about the year 1528 from William and John Elyot, having before been demised to them by Sir John Cantlowe, in the year 1486, in consideration of forty marks fine, and yearly rent of 4. 65. 8d. for eighty years, for students at law. The hall and many handsome chambers form three courts, through which is a passage to Clare Market and New Inn, in the day time, when the gates are open. The hall is a well proportioned and elegant room, containing a good portrait of Sir Matthew Hale, and five other pictures of small importance. The figure of a naked Moor, in the garden, supporting a sun-dial, constantly attracts public attention. It possesses occupied a considerable portion of it; in one suit of rooms resided the parish clerk of St. Clement's Danes; another part of it was devoted to the purposes of a billiard table, which was much frequented. In this apartinent the Mitre still remained over the chimney. Close to this place, and on the site of Crown Court, was the Crown tavern ; perhaps the present Crown and Anchor arose upon its delapidation. More eastward, the Ship tavern, of which some vestiges are still to be seen; and more westward, the Robinhood, in which a debating society, about the middle of last century, was a source of considerable amusement. "I was informed by a gentleman about twenty years since, who was then near ninety, that within his memory all those back houses that have a long narrow passage, for entrance in the Strand, Fleet Street, and all our other public streets, were taverns. The ichnography of these taverns, as may be seen in the few specimens that still remain in the metropolis, was a long passage for entrance, great part of it laticed over. The bar, for good reasons, fronting the great stair-case; the kitchen open for the reception of customers, who used to be termed Dumpling Dampers, Sippers, and Whetters, and the whole terminated by a garden, or sometimes a court surrounded by small apartments, which might have been antiently called Cubicolas; or, in more refined language, Casinas." Exroh. Mag. for July 1802, p. 11. considerable considerable merit, and was purchased by Holles, lord Clare, who presented it to this society. *: It has been conjectured," that near this spot stood an inn, as far back as the time of king Ethelred, for the reception of penitents who came to St. Clement's Well; that a religious house was in process of time established, and that the church rose in consequence. Be this as it may, the holy brotherhood was probably removed to some other situation; the Holy Lamb, an inn on the west side of the lane, received the guests; and the monastery was conyerted, or rather perverted, from the purposes of the Gospel to those of the Law, and was probably, in this profession, considered as a housé of very considerable antiquity in the days of Shakespeare; for..he, who with respect to this kind of chronology, may be safely quoted, makes, in the second part of Henry IV. one of his justices a member of that society: "He must to the inns of court. I was of Clement's once myself, where they talk of mad Shallow still." St. Clement's Inn is governed by a principal and fourteen antients. The gentlemen are to be a fortnight in commons every Term, and longer in Michaelmas term, and to pay a weekly rent though absent. A pump now covers ST. CLEMENT'S WELL. Fitzstephen, in his description of London, in the reign of Henry II. informs us, "that round the city again, and to The following lines, said to have been found stuck upon the figure of the Moor, the production of some wag, have too much merit to be omitted: "In vain, poor sable son of woe, Thou scek'st the tender tear; From Canibals thou filed'st in vain; Lawyers less quarter give; The first won't eat you till you're slain, The last will do't alive." Elegant Extracts, in Verte, p 819. + Moser's Vestiges. T 2 wards |