The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I

Chapter 139

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p. 354 _Tony._ Anthony Ashley Cooper; afterwards first Earl of Shaftesbury.

p. 357 _Wallingford House._ Stood on the site of the present Admiralty. It was so called from Sir William Knollys, Baron Wallingford, Treasurer of the Household to Elizabeth and James I. After Cromwell’s death the General Council of the Officers of the Army (Wallingford House Party) met here. Fleetwood actually lived in the house. At the Restoration it reverted to the Duke of Buckingham. The Crown purchased it 1680, and the Admiralty was built about 1720.