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Title: Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Thornbury, Walter, 1828-1876
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Publisher: London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin
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ould obtain leave to transport to England. However faulty he may be represented by Lord Clarendon, his judgment as a connoisseur in thefine arts will always remain undisputed. Views ofthe galleries in Arundel House are to be seen inthe backgrounds of Van Somers portraits of the Earl and Countess. During the Cromwellian wars, Arundel House and its contents, of which, especially at that time,any nobleman might well have been proud, weregiven back to the Earl of Arundels grandson, Henry Howard, sixth Duke of Norfolk, who, at therecommendation of John I-^N-elyn and John Selden, the author of Marmora Arundeliana, gave themarbles to the University of Oxford, which theystill adorn, and the library to the Royal Society,which held its meetings for some time at ArundelHouse. The Compleat Gentleman, a publication of the seventeenth century, informs the world, and withsome truth, that to the Earls liberal charges andmagnificence this angle of the world oweth the first 72 OLD AND NEW LONDON. iThc Sirniid
Text Appearing After Image:Plan of Arundel and Essex Houses. (From an original Etching by Hollar, published in Ogilby and Morgan's Twenty-sheet Plan of London.)
Southern Tributaries. ARUNDEL HOUSE. 73 sight of Greek and Roman statues, with whoseadmired presence he began to honour the gardensand galleries of Arundel House, and hath ever sincecontinued to transplant old Greece to England.It may be mentioned here that the remainder ofi the Earl of Arundel's collection was kept for many design was one Thomas Parry, cofferer to the princess, to whom he offered for her Graces accommodation the use of his house and all itsfurniture during her stay in London. The queensdeath, and her own suspicions on ner death-bed, gave just cause for the worst surmises. Seymours

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