Part 12

Moses rescues the Priest of Midian’s daughters from the fury of the shepherds, Ciro Ferri.

An assumption, L. Giordano.

A girl feeding chickens, Amoroso.

St. Jerome, Domenichino.

A sleeping boy, C. Marat.

In the Library.

Several portraits, and two historical pictures,

Mars and Venus, and Venus and Cupid, both by Vanloo.

In the Little Dressing Room.

The transfiguration, over the chimney, Camillo Procacini.

Landscape, Horizonti.

Holy family, Baroche.

History from a romance, Romanelli.

Jupiter and Juno, A. Carrache.

Temptation of St. Anthony, a landscape, Teniers.

Cincinnatus, P. da Cortona.

Landscape, Teniers.

St. Veronica, Romanelli.

Angel and Child, S. Rosa.

St. Jerome, Titian.

Crucifix, A. Carrache.

Landscape, Jean Francesco.

Holy family.

Lot entertaining the angels, Schiavone.

Charity, C. Cignani.

Christ bearing his cross, Domenichino.

Duke of Braganza, L. da Vinci.

Magdalen, Corregio.

Alexander and Campaspe, Solimini.

Apelles and the Grecian virgins, ditto.

Cupid and Psyche, Alessandro Veronese.

Cephalus and Procris, Poussin.

Peter denying Christ, Caravaggio.

Women sewing, ditto.

Ditto making lace, ditto.

Landscape, Domenichino.

Adoration, Ditto.

Old woman’s head, Guido.

Woman of Samaria, M. Ang. Buonarotti.

Landscape, Paul Brill, figures Elsheimer.

Marriage of a virgin, Albert Durer.

Mars and Venus, Tintoret.

Two heads.

Isaac blessing Jacob.

Rebecca.

St. Joseph.

Mignard, Carlo Marat.

Holy family, Nic. Berettoni.

Two landscapes, Bourgognone.

Two ditto, Brughel.

Water-fall.

Flight into Egypt, Polenburgh.

Holy family, Albano.

Death of Dido, Paris Bourdon.

Pantheon.

Pope and Cardinals, John Van Eyck.

Landscape.

Plague at Athens, Bourdon.

Holy family, Parmegiano.

Ruins, Both.

Portrait of a sculptor, Sir Peter Lely.

Madona, Titian.

Portrait, A. Carrache.

Ditto, Fra. Hals.

Jupiter and Europa, Sir Peter Lely.

Saint and Angel, Ph. Laura.

Woman and Child, C. Cignani.

Holy family, C. Marat.

Soldier, woman and child, S. Rosa.

Murder of the innocents, Rottenhammer.

Two people counting money, Teniers.

Head, Raphael.

Ditto, Holbein.

Madona, Schidoni.

Holy family.

St. Jerome, Phil. Laura.

In the Great Dining Room.

The royal yacht, over the door, Vandevelde.

Sophonisba, L. Giordano.

Trophy with the head of Lewis XIV.

Fruit piece, M. Angelo.

Country wake, Bamboccio.

Piece of still life.

Fruit piece with a carpet, Maltese.

Duke of Albemarle, Sir Peter Lely.

Fruit piece, M. Angelo.

Ship piece, Bourgognone.

Landscape, ditto.

Battle of Lewis XIV., Vandermeulen.

A chapel.

Susanna and the elders, Guercino.

Landscape, Tillemans.

A perspective view.

In the Hall several portraits of Vandyke, Sir Peter Lely, Sir Godfrey Kneller, &c.

In a Dressing Room.

Several portraits, among which are historical and other subjects, viz.

An historical subject, P. da Cortona.

Achilles and the Centaur, S. Rosa.

A battle piece, M. Angelo Battaglio.

Death of St. Peter, Guido.

In the Lower Room among many others are the following.

Consecration of Thomas a Becket, J. Van Eyck.[4]

Pope with his Cardinals in procession.

The presentation of Christ in the Temple, Hans Holbein.

Two pictures, Watteau.

Roman amphitheatre.

A conversation, candlelight.

Shoeing a horse, Wouwerman.

Landscape, Rowland Savory.

The beasts going into the ark. Jacopo Bassano.

Chymist’s laboratory, Teniers.

View of Newmarket, Tillemans.

Boar hunting, M. de Vos.

Two small pictures, Teniers.

Landscape, Domenichino.

Apollo and Marsyas, Titian.

Apollo and Midas, ditto.

Landscape, Bergham.

A conversation, candlelight, Bamboccio.

Footnote 4:

This picture is supposed to have formerly belonged to the Arundel collection, and from thence came to Henry Duke of Norfolk, from whose steward Mr. Fox, it was bought by Mr. Sykes, who afterwards sold it to the Duke of Devonshire, 1722.

The tradition concerning it was, that King Henry V. received it as a present, about a year before his death, from the famous John Duke of Bedford then Regent of England, and afterwards Regent of France in the reign of Henry VI. The Duke of Bedford bespoke it of John Van Eyck the painter, who invented the art of painting in oil. Thomas a Becket, whose consecration this painting is supposed to represent, was the favourite saint of King Henry V.

The length of this picture is forty-five inches, its breadth twenty-nine, and the height of the principal figure twenty-one and a half.

DEVONSHIRE _square_, Bishopsgate street. Here was formerly a very large and fine house, built by Jasper Fisher, one of the six clerks in Chancery, which on account of his being a man of no great birth or fortune, and much involved in debt, was called in derision, Fisher’s Folly; this house afterwards belonged to the Earl of Oxford, and lastly to the Earl of Devonshire, whose name is still preserved in the street and square built upon its ruins. _Maitland._

This is a neat but small square, surrounded with good houses, with rows of trees before them; and adorned in the middle with the statue of Mercury gilt, placed on a pedestal, which is ornamented on each of the four sides with figures in bas relief. This square is inhabited by wealthy merchants.

DEVONSHIRE _street_, 1. Leading from Bishopsgate street to Devonshire square. 2. Queen square, Great Ormond street.

DIAMOND _court_, 1. Pearl street. Tite’s alley.

DICE KEY _lane_, Billingsgate, Thames street.

DICE KEY _passage_, Thames street.

DICK’S _court_, Crown alley, Upper Moorfields.

DICK’S SHORE, Fore street, Limehouse.

DICK’S SHORE _alley_, by Dick’s shore.

DICK’S SIDE _alley_, Hermitage.

DICKENSON’S _court_, Quakers street, Spitalfields.†

DICKENSON’S _alley_, Long lane.†

DIGBY’S _rents_, In the Minories.†

DIGG’S _rents_, Blue Anchor alley.†

DIMMOCK’S _yard_, Stoney street.†

_St._ DIONIS _Backchurch_, situated near the south west corner of Lime street, owes its name to St. Dionis, Dennis, or Dionysius, an Athenian _Areopagite_, or Judge, who being converted on St. Paul’s preaching at Athens, became the first Bishop of that city, and at length Patron of France. This is the celebrated Saint, who, according to the absurd and ridiculous fables of the Papists, carried his head two miles after it was cut off. The epithet of Backchurch, was given to this edifice from its situation behind a row of houses, to distinguish it from St. Gabriel’s church, which stood in the middle of Fenchurch street. The old church was destroyed by the great fire in 1666, and the present edifice, which is built with stone, was erected in its room.

This parish is a rectory, and one of the peculiars belonging to the Archbishop of Canterbury. The rector receives 120_l._ a year in lieu of tithes.

DIPPING _alley_, Fair street, Horselydown.

DIRTY _alley_, 1. Fashion street.║ 2. Ratcliff highway.║

DIRTY _hill_, near Gray’s Inn lane.║

DIRTY _lane_, 1. Blackman street.║ 2. Brewer’s street.║ 3. High Holborn.║ 4. Hoxton.║ 5. Long Acre.║ 6. In the Mint, Southwark.║ 7. Old Place yard.║ 8. Shoreditch.║ 9. Stony lane.║ 10. In the Strand.║

_Court of_ DISPENSATIONS. See _Court of_ FACULTIES _and_ DISPENSATIONS.

DISTAFF _lane_, Old Change.

DISTILLERS, a company incorporated by letters patent granted by Charles I. in the year 1638. This corporation is governed by a Master, three Wardens, nineteen Assistants, and 122 Liverymen, each of whom pay on their admission a fine of 13_l._ 6_s._ 8_d_.

DISTILLERS _yard_, 1. Great Tower hill. 2. Shoreditch.

DITCH _alley_, Green alley, Tooley street.☐

DITCH _side_, 1. Collingwood street.☐ 2. Cuckolds Point.☐

DITCH _side row_, Holiwell lane, Shoreditch.

DITTON PARK, is in the parish of Datchet, in Berks. The house, which is an ancient and venerable mansion, was built by Sir Ralph Winwood, Secretary of State to King James I. and afterwards came into the noble family of Montague; but on the demise of the late Duke, the house and manor of Datchet came to the present Earl of Cardigan. The former is built in the manner of a castle, surrounded by a large moat, in the middle of a pleasant park well planted with timber. The apartments are large and beautifully painted, and in the picture gallery is a good collection of paintings, many of them by the greatest masters.

DIZZLE’S _court_, Beech lane.†

DOBBIN’S _rents_, Whitechapel.†

DOBBS’S _court_, Swithin’s alley, Cornhill.†

DOBEY’S _court_, Monkwell street.†

DOCK HEAD, St. Saviour’s Dock.

DOCK HEAD _row_, St. Saviour’s Dock.

DOCK SIDE, Hermitage Dock.

DOCTOR FRIER’S _alley_, Little Britain.†

DOCTORS COMMONS, a college for the study and practice of the civil law, where courts are kept for the trial of civil and ecclesiastical causes under the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Bishop of London; as in the court of Arches, and the Prerogative court. There are also offices in which wills are deposited and searched, and a court of faculties and dispensations. Causes are likewise tried here by the court of Admiralty, and by that of Delegates. The epithet of _Commons_ is given to this place, from the Civilians commoning together as in other colleges.

This edifice is situated in Great Knight Rider street, near the College of Arms, on the south side of St. Paul’s Cathedral. The old building which stood in this place was purchased for the residence of the Civilians and Canonists, by Henry Harvey, Doctor of the civil and canon law, and Dean of the Arches; but this edifice being destroyed by the general devastation in 1666, they removed to Exeter House in the Strand, where the Civilians had their chambers and offices; and the courts were kept in the hall; but some years after the Commons being rebuilt in a far more convenient and sumptuous manner than before, the Civilians returned thither.

The causes of which the civil and ecclesiastical law do, or may take cognizance, are blasphemy, apostasy from Christianity, heresy, ordinations, institutions of clerks to benefices, celebration of divine service, matrimony, divorces, bastardy, tithes, oblations, obventions, mortuaries, dilapidations, reparation of churches, probate of wills, administrations, simony, incest, fornication, adultery, solicitation of chastity, pensions, procurations, commutation of penance, right of pews, and others of the like kind.

The practisers in these courts, are of two sorts, Advocates and Proctors. The _Advocates_ are such as have taken the degree of Doctor of the civil law, and are retained as counsellors or pleaders. These must first upon their petition to the Archbishop, obtain his _fiat_; and then they are admitted by the Judge to practise. The manner of their admission is solemn. Two senior Advocates in their scarlet robes, with the mace carried before them, conduct the Doctor up the court with three reverences, and present him with a short Latin speech, together with the Archbishop’s rescript; and then having taken the oaths, the Judge admits him, and assigns him a place or seat in the court, which he is always to keep when he pleads. Both the Judge and Advocates, if of Oxford, wear in court scarlet robes, and hoods lined with taffata; but if of Cambridge, white minever, and round black velvet caps.

The _Proctors_, or _Procurators_, exhibit their proxies for their clients; and make themselves parties for them, and draw and give pleas, or libels and allegations, in their behalf; produce witnesses, prepare causes for sentence, and attend the Advocates with the proceedings. These are also admitted by the Archbishop’s _fiat_, and introduced by two senior Proctors. They wear black robes and hoods lined with fur.

The terms for the pleading and ending of causes in the civil courts, are but little different from the term times of the common law. The order as to the time of the sitting of the several courts, is as follows. The court of Arches having the pre-eminence, sits first in the morning. The court of Admiralty sits in the afternoon on the same day; and the Prerogative court also sits in the afternoon. See ARCHES, PREROGATIVE _court_, &c.

DOCTORS COMMONS LIBRARY. This is a spacious room, containing a great number of books of all sorts, more particularly on civil law and history. It was greatly increased by the addition of the whole library of Sir John Gibson, Judge of the Prerogative Office, given by James Gibson, Esq; one of his descendants; and it must be continually improving, as every Bishop, at his consecration, gives at least 20_l._ and some 50, towards purchasing books for it. _Maitland._

DODDINGTON _street_, Leather lane, Holborn.†

DODD’S _alley_, Nightingale lane, East Smithfield.†

DODD’S _yard_, Nightingale lane, East Smithfield.†

DODWELL’S _rents_, Barnaby street, Southwark.†

DOG _alley_, 1. Bowling alley, Westminster.* 2. Fore street, Lambeth.*

DOG AND BEAR _alley_, 1. Fore street, Lambeth.* 2. Horselydown.* 3. Tooley street.*

DOG AND BEAR _yard_, 1. In the Borough.* 2. Crucifix lane.*

DOG AND DUCK _alley_, New Bond street.*

DOG AND DUCK _stairs_, near Deptford.*

DOG AND PORRIDGE _yard_, Old street.*

DOGHOUSE _bar_, Windmill hill, Old street, so called from its being near the Doghouse, where the city hounds are kept.

DOGHOUSE _street_, Old street.

DOG _lane_, Five Feet lane, Barnaby street.*

DOG _row_, Mile end.*

DOG _Tavern yard_, Thames street.

DOG _yard_, 1. College street, Westminster.* 2. Castle street, Long lane.* 3. Bear Inn yard, St. Margaret’s hill.*

DOG’S HEAD AND POTTAGE POT _alley_, Old street.*

DOG’S HEAD AND POTTAGE POT _court_, Whitecross street, Cripplegate.*

DOGWELL _court_, Lombard street; White Friars.†

DOLBIN’S _court_, 1. Black Eagle street.† 2. Monkwell street.†

DOLBY’S _court_, Peter’s lane.†

DOLEMAN’S _yard_, Holiwell street.†

DOLITTLE’S _alley_, Little Carter lane.†

DOLITTLE’S _rents_, Fashion street, Spitalfields.†

DOLLISHIRE _court_, Cable street.†

DOLPHIN _alley_, 1. Blackman street.* 2. St. Catharine’s court, St. Catharine’s.* 3. Cock lane, Snow hill.* 4. Gun street, Spitalfields.* 5. Long alley, Moorfields.* 6. Wapping.*

DOLPHIN _court_, 1. Gun street, Spitalfields.* 2. St. Catharine’s lane.* 3. High Holborn.* 4. Little Distaff lane.* 5. Ludgate hill.* 6. Lombard street, Spitalfields.* 7. Noble street, Foster lane.* 8. Tower street, Tower hill.*

DOLPHIN _yard_, 1. Blackman street.* 2. Butcher row, Ratcliff Cross.* 3. Dean street.* 4. Wapping.* 5. West Smithfield.*

DOLPHIN AND THREE COLTS _yard_, Crutched Friars.*

DOLPHIN _Inn yard_, Bishopsgate street.*

DONNE’S _alley_, Noble street, Foster lane.†

DONNET’S _court_, Maddox street.*

DORLSTON, a small but pleasant village near Hackney, to which parish it belongs.

DORMER’S _hill_, by Stratton’s Grounds.†

DORRINGTON _street_, Cold Bath fields.†

DORSET _court_, 1. Canon row. 2. Dorset Gardens. 3. Gunpowder alley.

DORSET _gardens_, Salisbury court, so called from this place being formerly the gardens belonging to the Earl of Dorset’s house.

DORSET _stairs_, Dorset street.☐

DORSET _street_, 1. Near Crispin street, Spitalfields. 2. Fleet street, from the Earl of Dorset’s house, which formerly stood in Salisbury court. See SALISBURY _court_. 3. Red Lion street.

DOUBLE HAND _court_, by Campion lane, Thames street.*

DOUBLE HOOD _court_, Campion lane.

DOVE _court_, 1. Addle hill, Great Carter lane.* 2. Gutter lane, Cheapside.* 3. Labour in vain hill, Thames street.* 4. Leather lane.* 5. Old Fish street.* 6. Old Jewry. 7. St. Swithin’s lane.* 8. Turnmill street.* 9. White Friars.*

DOVER _court_, Dover street.

DOVER _street_, Piccadilly.

DOWGATE, according to Stow, was originally called _Downgate_, and was only a principal key for ships and vessels, to load and land goods and provisions: while Mr. Maitland contends for its being originally the south gate of this city, where was anciently the _trajectus_, or ferry of Watling street, one of the four great Roman military ways, and that it was by the Britons, under the Roman government, called Dourgate, that is Watergate.

DOWGATE _hill_, Thames street.

DOWGATE _stairs_, Couzen’s lane, Thames street.

DOWGATE WARD, is bounded on the north by Walbrook ward; on the west, by Vintry ward; on the south, by the Thames; and on the east, by Candlewick and Bridge wards: extending from St. Martin’s lane in the east, to Cloak lane in the west, and from thence both east and west to the Thames, in almost a strait line.

In this ward is the parish church of Allhallows the Great; and also Plumbers hall, Watermens hall, Joiners hall, Innholders hall, Skinners hall, and Tallow Chandlers hall; Merchant Taylor’s school, and the Steel Yard.

It has an Alderman, his Deputy, and seven other Common Council men, fourteen wardmote inquest men, five scavengers, eight constables and a beadle. The jurymen returned by the wardmote inquest serve in the several courts of Guildhall in the month of October. _Maitland._

DOWGATE _wharf_, Thames street.

DOWNING _street_, King’s street, Westminster.†

DOWN’S _street_, Hyde Park road.†

DOWSE _key_, near Dice Key, Billingsgate.

DRAKE _street_, Red Lion square.†

DRAPERS, one of the twelve principal companies, was incorporated by letters patent granted by Henry VI. in the year 1439, by the title of _The Master, Wardens, Brethren and Sisters of the guild or fraternity of the blessed Mary the Virgin, of the mystery of Drapers of the city of London_.

This company is governed by a Master, four Wardens, and thirty Assistants, with a livery of 140 persons, who upon their admission pay a fine of 25_l._ They apply to charitable uses about 4000_l._ a year.

DRAPER’S _alley_, Woodroffe street, Tower hill.

DRAPER’S _court_, Prince’s street, Lothbury.†

DRAPERS HALL, situated on the south side of Throgmorton street, is built upon the ruins of a noble palace erected on that spot, in the reign of King Henry VIII. by Thomas Lord Cromwell, Earl of Essex, which upon his attainder and execution for high treason devolving to the Crown, was purchased by the Company of Drapers, for the use to which it is now applied: but was burnt in the fire of London in 1666, and has been since rebuilt in a very handsome manner.

This is a spacious and noble edifice, which composes the four sides of a quadrangle, each of which is elevated on columns and adorned with arches, forming a piazza round a square court, and between each arch is a shield, mantling, and other fretwork. The room called the hall is adorned with a stately screen, and fine wainscot; the pictures of King William III. King George I. King George II. at full length; and an ancient picture, a three quarter length of Henry Fitz-Alwine, a draper, and the first Lord Mayor of London.

There are also several other large rooms wainscoted with oak; as the court room, at the end of which hangs a valuable picture of Mary Queen of Scots at full length, with King James her infant son in her hand. This leads into a long gallery, at the south end of which is a door into the apartments for the clerk and offices: at the north end a folding sash door opens into a grand square room called the Ladies chamber, where the company have been used at certain seasons to entertain their wives and friends with a ball. In the center of this room hangs a large and beautiful cut chandelier, which was a present from the late Sir Joseph Eyles, when he served the office of Sheriff: and over the chimney piece is a fine picture of Sir Robert Clayton, Lord Mayor of London. Out of the west side of this room is a passage that leads to a place called the Record room; the door to which is of iron; it is strongly built over the passage that leads into the garden, and covered with a cistern that contains such a body of water as may at any time be sufficient to defend this apartment from fire that might spread from the adjacent buildings.

DRAPERS GARDENS, are pleasant and commodious, though not very large. They are situated behind the hall, and being nearly square, have on each side rows of lime trees which form very agreeable walks. The middle part, which is enclosed by iron rails, has several grass plats bordered with beds of flowers, and in the center is a statue of Flora. In this part there are also several mulberry trees. These gardens are open every day in the week except Sundays, for all persons decently dressed.

DRAYTON, a village in Middlesex, situated on the river Coln, about eighteen miles west from London.

DREW’S _alley_, Cow Cross, West Smithfield.†

DREW’S _court_, Peter street, Westminster.†

DREW’S _rents_. Upper Ground.†

DRIFTWAY, Near Bethnal green.

DRIVER’S _yard_, Old street.

DRUM _alley_, 1. Drury lane.* 2. High Holborn.*

DRUM _yard_, Whitechapel.*

DRURY _lane_, between the Strand and St. Giles’s Broad street. Drury, was the old word for modesty; but this lane received its name from the house of the noble family of Drewry being anciently situated at the lower end of Drury lane, and the upper end of Wych street. _Vocab. to Chaucer, Maitland’s Survey._

DRURY’S _rents_, Hermitage.†

DRYING _Grounds_, New Bond street.

DUAL’S _alley_, High Holborn.†

DUCK _lane_, 1. Peter street, Westminster. 2. West Smithfield.

DUCK’S _court_, Cursitor street.†

DUCKING POND _alley_, Whitechapel common.

DUCKING POND _lane_, 1. Mile end, New town.

DUCKING POND _row_, Whitechapel common.

DUDLEY’S _court_, Hog lane, St. Giles’s.†

DUET’S _wharf_, Lemon street, Southwark.†

DUFFER’S _court_, Little Broad street.†

DUFFIN’S _alley_, King’s street, Westminster.†

DUKE’S _alley_, 1. Castle yard, Holborn. 2. Kingsland road.

DUKE’S _court_, 1. Bow street, or Drury lane. 2. Crown alley, Upper Moorfields. 3. Kingsland road. 4. Little Almonry. 5. St. Martin’s lane, Charing Cross. 6. Narrow street, Limehouse.

DUKE’S _Place_, near Aldgate, so called from the Duke of Norfolk having formerly a seat there. _Maitland._

DUKE’S PLACE _court_, Duke’s place.

DUKE SHORE, Limehouse.

DUKE SHORE _alley_, Duke shore.

DUKE SHORE _stairs_, Limehouse.

DUKE _street_, 1. Brook’s street, New Bond street. 2. Gravel lane, Southwark. 3. Great Germain street. 4. Great Russel street, Bloomsbury. 5. Grosvenor square. 6. Lincoln’s Inn fields. 7. Mint street. 8. Piccadilly. 9. Spitalfields. 10. Tyburn road. 11. By Charles street, near King’s street, Westminster. 12. York buildings. See YORK BUILDINGS.

DUKE OF NORFOLK’S _yard_, St. Alban’s street.