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Vol.. IV.— No. 106..] Saturday, November 8. 1851. 



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Notes : — Page 



Some Notes on Arundel House, Strand, and on the, 



Dispersion of Sculptures formerly Part of the Arun- 



delian Collection, by William Sidney Gibson - - 3G1 



P.inslavic Literature, and the Library of the British 



Museum, by Dr. J. Lotsky ... - 3C4 



On Archbishop U.^sher, by Bolton Corney - - 363- 



Anglo-Catholjc Library — Bishop Overall's Convocation 



Book ------- 365 



QucxiEs : — 



The Use of Misereres - - , . - 3C7 



Joceline's Legacy ------ 367 



Minor Queries: — Early Muster Rolls ^ Convocation 

 for the Province of York — The Scent of the Blood- 

 hound — Cooper's Miniature of Cromwell — Lines on 

 Oagliostro — 'Ihe Names and Numbers of liritish 

 Regiments — Praed's Charade — Cozens the Painter 

 — Parliajnentary Debates - _ - - 367 



Minor Qfmiits ANSWEKEa: — Merry Wakefield — The 

 two Kings of Bj-entford — Meaning of V. D. M. - 369 



Replies : — 



Anaclironisms of Painters ----- 369 

 " Agla," Meaning of, by E. S. Taylor, &c. - - 370 



Colonies of England - - . - . 370 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Broad Arrow — Sacro- 

 Sancta Regum ,\Iajc>t.is — Giimsditch — " 'Tis Two- 

 pence now," &c. — Pauper's Badge - - - 371 



Miscellaneous: — 



Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. - . - 373 



Books and f)dd Volumes wanted - - - - 373 



Notices to Correspondents . - - . 374 



Advertisements ...... 374 



SOME NOTES ON AKUNDEL HOUSE, STRAND, AND ON 

 THE DISPEK.'^ION OF SCULPTURES FORMEKLY PART 

 OF THE ARUNUELIAN COLLECTION. 



The celebrated Tlioinas Ilow.ard, Earl of Arun- 

 del, was soil ot'Pliilip Howard, liarl of Arundel — 

 the faitliful and constant, wlio beinjr persecuted 

 for his relij;ion, was suffered by Queen Eliz;ibetli 

 to lanj^ui.sli in the Tower, where lie died in 159.'> — 

 and great-grandson of Henry Howard, Earl of 

 Surrey, the aeeoinplislied nobleman who was be- 

 headed in 1.^47 by "the Nero of tlie Tudor race." 

 Thomas Howard was restored, as your readers 



know, to the earldom of Arundel by James I., 

 and in tlie rei.^n of that king and of Ciiarles I., who 

 Lfld liiin in veneration, received other honours and 

 employments, but was yet more distinguislied by 

 his munificent patronage of the arts and of learn- 

 incr- He is called " (he only great subject of the 

 northern parts, who by his conversation and great 

 collections set a value" upon transalpine lands; 

 and he began about 1614 to decorate with the pre- 

 cious and costly works of art which he had col- 

 lected in Greece and in his beloved Italy, the 

 gardens and galleries of his quaint old palace ia, 

 London, called Arundel House. 



This mansion, or rather collection of buildings, 

 the site of which had been taken from the sec of Bath 

 in the time of " Protector " Somerset, appears from 

 Hollar's Views (as is stated by Mr. Cunningham, 

 in his admirable Handbook of London Past and' 

 Present) to have comprised a range of irregular 

 buildings, principally of red brick, erected at va-. 

 rious periods, and combined without much regard 

 to elegance or uniformity ; although I find the 

 earl is said to have been the first person who in- 

 troduced uniformity in building, and to have been 

 mad© chief commissioner for promoting this object 

 in London. This famous, and once hospitable, 

 mansion, stood between the gardens of Essex 

 House on the east, and of Somerset (then Den- 

 mark) House on the west, its pleasure grounds 

 coming down to the river, aud commanding a fine 

 view oi' the city as far as London Bridge, and of 

 "Westminster, and westward to Nine Elms. It is 

 mentioned by Mr. Cunningham, that in this house 

 Hollar drew his well-known view of London, as 

 seen from the roof. The earl, of whose taste and 

 munificence the Arundelian collections formed a 

 noble monument, departed this life at Padua, on 

 the 4th of October (or, as another account* says, 

 the 26th September), 164G, in the si.xty-first year 

 of his age, having been two years before created 

 Earl of Norfolk, in consideraticm of his lineal 

 descent from Thomas de Brotherton, Earl of 



* Hist. Aneal. of some of tlie Howard Famil;/, by Mr. 

 Cliarles Howard of Gre.vstoke, 8vo. Lond. 17G9. The 

 writer bccairie Duke of Norfolk on the deatli of his 

 cousin Edward, eighth duke, in 1777. 



