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Title: The history of England, from the accession of James the Second
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859 Firth, C. H. (Charles Harding), 1857-1936
Subjects: Great Britain -- History James II, 1685-1688 Great Britain -- History William and Mary, 1689-1702
Publisher: London : Macmillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ose two celebrated palaces, each with an ample garden. Oneof them, then called Southampton House, and subsequently BedfordHouse, was removed about fifty years ago to make room for a new city,which now covers, with its squares, streets, and churches, a vast area,renowned in the seventeenth century for peaches and snipes. The other,Montague House, celebrated for its frescoes and furniture, was, a fewmonths after the death of Charles the Second, burned to the ground, andwas speedily succeeded by a more magnificent Montague House, which,having been long the repository of such various and precious treasures ofart, science, and learning as were scarcely ever before assembled under asingle roof, has now given place to an edifice more magnificent still.4 1 Norths Examen, 116 ; Wood, Ath. Ox. Shaftesbury ; The Duke of B.s Litany. 2 Travels of the Grand Duke Cosmo. 3 Chamberlaynes State of England, 1684 ; Pennants London ; Smiths Life of Nollekens. 4 Evelyns Diary, Oct. 10. 1683, Jan. 19. i68;.
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Southampton or Bloomsbury Square about 1720, by Sutton Nicholls - o o w<c « c O o pa ao zo a, •<SH Oen PS 348 HISTORY OF ENGLAND chap, m Nearer to the Court, on a space called Saint Jamess Fields, had justbeen built Saint Jamess Square and Jermyn Street. Saint JamessChurch had recently been opened for the accommodation of the inhabi-tants of this new quarter.1 Golden Square, which was in the nextgeneration inhabited by lords and ministers of state, had not yet beenbegun. Indeed the only dwellings to be seen on the north of Piccadillywere three or four isolated and almost rural mansions, of which themost celebrated was the costly pile erected by Clarendon, and nick-named Dunkirk House. It had been purchased after its founders down-fall by the Duke of Albemarle. The Clarendon Hotel and AlbemarleStreet still preserve the memory of the site. He who then rambled to what is now the gayest and most crowdedpart of Regent Street found himself in a solitude, and was sometimes sofortunate as to have a shot at a woodcock.2 On the north the Oxfordroad r

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