CHAPTER IV. SOMERSET HOUSE.

The Protector Somerset--Denmark House--The Queen’s French Servants--The Lying-in-State of Cromwell--Scenes at Somerset House--Sir Edmondbury Godfrey--Old Somerset House--Erection of the Modern Building--Carlini’s Grandeur--A Hive of Red Tapists--Expensive Auditing--The Royal Society--The Geological and the Antiquarian Societies--A Legend of Somerset House--St. Martin’s Lane Academy--An Insult to Engravers--Rebecca’s Practical Jokes--A Fashionable Man actually Surprised--Lying in State pp. 56-81