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authority, to have walked barefooted through Hyde Park to Tyburn and to have done penance there, though the fact of her having done so has been denied by the Marshal de Bassompierre, the French ambassador in England at the time. On the three wooden stilts of Tyburn the bodies of Oliver Cromwell, Ireton, and Bradshaw were hung on the first anniversary (January 30, 1660-1661) of the execution of Charles I. after the Restoration. Their bodies were dragged from their graves in Henry VII.'s Chapel, in Westminster Abbey, and removed at night to the Red Lion Inn, in Holborn, from whence they were carried next morning in sledges to Tyburn, and there, in their shrouds and cere-cloths, suspended till sunset at the several angles of the gallows. They were then taken down and beheaded, their bodies buried beneath the gallows, and their heads set upon poles on the top of Westminster Hall.1

The last plate of Hogarth's "Idle and Industrious Apprentice represents an execution at Tyburn's triple tree. [See Bowl Yard, Holborn.]

Tyburn Road, the old name for Oxford Street.

Tyburn Road beta St. Giles's Pound E. and the Lane leading to the Gallows W., length 350 yards.—Hatton, 8vo, 1708, p. 84.

Having purchased the body of a malefactor, he hired a room for its dissection near the Pest Fields in St. Giles's, at a little distance from Tyburn Road.-Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus.

My Lord Dorset was set upon on Saturday night by four or five footpads, as he came by Tyburn. He says little of it himself; but I hear they took from him to the value of fifty or sixty pounds, with his gold George. They, seeing him fumbling in his pockets, told him it was not honourable to sink upon them, and they must search him; whereon he threw his money out of the coach, and bid them pick it up. One of them told him, that if they did not know him they should use him worse.Secretary Vernon to Duke of Shrewsbury, July 25, 1699, vol. ii. p. 327.

Tyburnia, the conventional name of a part of Bayswater lying between the Edgware Road and Pembridge Road, and reaching north from the Bayswater Road to the Westbourne district, and for the most part covered during the last thirty years with large and costly mansions, and laid out in roads, squares, gardens, and terraces. Like its more aristocratic rival Belgravia, its name, extent and boundaries are merely conventional, but are very well understood by the residents.

Uncumber (Saint), an altar or rood in old ST. PAUL'S, popularly so called, and much resorted to by women of the poorer classes, whose offering, curiously enough, was oats. The saint, whose proper name, says Sir Thomas More, was St. Wylgeforte, had the credit of being able to uncumber them of their husbands." An old popular rhyme says— If ye cannot slepe but slumber

Give otes unto Saynt Uncumber.

If a wife were weary of her husband she offered oats

At St. Paul's, at London, to St. Uncumber.

Michael Wood, quoted in Wordsworth's Eccl. Biog., vol. i. p. 166.

1 Wharton's Gesta Britannorum, p. 490, add. MSS. British Museum 10,116. Wood's Athena Oxonienses, art. "Ireton."

Union Club House, TRAFALGAR PLACE, at the south-west end of Trafalgar Square (Sir Robert Smirke, R.A., architect). The club is chiefly composed of merchants, lawyers, Members of Parliament, and, as James Smith, who was a member, writes, "of gentlemen at large. The cellars are said to contain a larger stock of wine than those of any other club in London. Entrance fee, 38 guineas; annual subscription, 7 guineas. The house is built on ground let by the Crown, for ninety-nine years, from October 10, 1822.

Union Court, HOLBORN, Opposite St. Andrew's Church, was formerly called Scroope's Court, after the noble family of Scroope of Bolton, who had a town house here, afterwards let to the serjeants-atlaw. [See Scroope's Inn.] Only the northern part now exists, the Holborn end having been swept away in forming the Holborn Viaduct and its approaches. In Union Court lived William Henry Toms, the engraver (1700-1750), a name dear to London topographers.

Union Street, MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL, from Great Titchfield Street to Norfolk Street, now called Cleveland Street.

At the end of Union Street, Middlesex Hospital, stood two magnificent rows of elms, one on each side of a rope-walk; and beneath their shade I have frequently seen Joseph Baretti and Richard Wilson perambulate until Portland Chapel clock announced five, the hour of Joseph Wilton's dinner.-Smith's Nollekins, vol. ii. p. 177.

The "magnificent rows of elms" were felled to clear the ground for the Strand Union Workhouse.

Union Street, SOUTHWARK (formerly Duke Street), connects the Borough High Street with Charlotte Street and the Blackfriars Road. No. 88 is a public-house, distinguished by the sign of "King Henry VIII.'s Head." The house, as an inn, is coeval with Henry VIII.'s reign. The structure is modern. The Police Court, which had long been fixed in this street, was removed in January 1845.

United Service Club, at the south-east corner of PALL MALL and WATERLOO PLACE, was erected 1826 from the designs of John Nash, architect, for officers not under the rank of Major in the Army and of Commander in the Navy. The exterior was redecorated and the interior remodelled, and an addition made on the east side from the designs of Decimus Burton in 1858-1859. The club was established in 1815. This is still considered to be one of the most commodious, economical and best managed of all the London Club Houses. In it are hung Stanfield's Battle of Trafalgar and several portraits. members are limited to 1600. Entrance fee, £40; annual subscription £8.

The

United Service Club (JUNIOR), north-west corner of CHARLES STREET and east side of REGENT STREET, was designed by Sir Robert Smirke for the Senior United Service Club, but was found too small for the purposes of that Club. It was rebuilt on an enlarged scale

and in a more sumptuous style in 1855-1857; architects Messrs. Nelson and Innes. It comprises 2000 members, who pay an entrance fee of £40 and an annual subscription of 7 guineas.

United Service Institution, WHITEHALL YARD, founded 1830, as a central repository for objects of the military and naval arts, science, natural history, books and documents relating to those objects, and for the delivery of lectures on appropriate subjects. Member's entrance fee, £; annual subscription, 10s. ; life subscription, £6. Hours of Admission for Visitors.-Daily (Fridays excepted) during the summer months, April to September, from eleven to five; winter months, from eleven to four. Mode of Admission.—Member's order, easily procurable. The members are above 4000 in number. The museum of the institution contains much that will repay a visit. The Asiatic Room contains a large and rich collection of Indian and Afghan arms, armour, etc., Chinese and Japanese weapons, and the ruder weapons of the natives of Borneo and the South Sea Islands. The African Room displays an equally varied collection of Moorish, Abyssinian, Ashantee and Central African arms and armour. Other rooms exhibit the early and recent military weapons and accoutrements of different European countries, while others again are devoted to the arms used of old and at the present time in the navy, models of ships of various countries, including some of our recent gunboats and iron-clads. Observe. Basket-hilted cut-and-thrust sword, used by Oliver Cromwell at the siege of Drogheda (1649),— the blade bears the marks of two musket-balls; sword worn by General Wolfe when he fell at Quebec (1759); Sir Francis Drake's walking stick; sash used in carrying Sir John Moore from the field, and lowering him into his grave on the ramparts at Corunna; Captain Cook's chronometer; part of the deck of the Victory on which Nelson fell, his sword and other relics; rudder of the Royal George sunk at Spithead; skeleton of Marengo, the barb-horse which Napoleon rode at Waterloo; Captain Siborne's elaborate and faithful model of the field and battle of Waterloo, containing 100,000 metal figures; large model of the Battle of Trafalgar; Colonel Hamilton's model of Sebastopol; relics of Sir John Franklin's Arctic expedition. There is an excellent library.

United University Club House, SUFFOLK STREET and PALL MALL EAST, was built from the designs of William Wilkins, R.A., and J. P. Gandy Deering, and opened February 13, 1826. A storey was added in 1850. The members, limited to 1000, belong to the two universities of Oxford and Cambridge. Entrance fee, 30 guineas; annual subscription, 8 guineas.

University Club (New), 57 ST. JAMES STREET, a handsome Gothic building erected from the designs of Alfred Waterhouse, R.A. It was established in 1863, and consists of 1100 members. Entrance fee, 30 guineas; annual subscription, 8 guineas.

University College, LONDON, on the east side of GOWER STREET, a proprietary institution, "for the general advancement of literature and science, by affording to young men adequate opportunities for obtaining literary and scientific education at a moderate expense." It was founded in 1826 as the London University by the exertions of Lord Brougham, Thomas Campbell the poet, and others, but the title was changed under the Charter of Incorporation to University College. It was reincorporated with the same title in 1865. The central building was erected 1827-1828 from the designs of W. Wilkins, R.A. The hall at the rear having been burnt down, a library with staircase approach was erected 1848-1851 from the designs of Professor T. L. Donaldson at a cost of £6173. The central vestibule or Flaxman Hall, 1848, by Professor C. R. Cockerell and Professor T. L. Donaldson. About 1867 a south wing was added from the designs of Professor T. Hayter Lewis; and the north wing was opened in February 1881, and cost £35,000. The course of instruction in University College is of the most comprehensive kind. The college is open to all, and everything is taught that falls within a university curriculum, except theology, which by its constitution is strictly excluded. Science is made a special feature. The School of Medicine is deservedly distinguished. There is a department of Engineering and the Constructive Arts, and of late years a Slade School of the Fine Arts has been added with marked success. The staff of professors are men of high reputation in their respective departments. There are scholarships, exhibitions and prizes in the several schools, and the students have the use of an extensive library and medical museum.

The Junior School for boys between seven and fifteen years of age, under the government of the Council of the College, is entered by a separate entrance in Upper Gower Street. The school session is divided into three terms; and the payment is 8 guineas a term, with some "extras." Boys are admitted to the school at any age under fifteen, if they are competent to enter the lowest class. When a boy has attained his sixteenth year he will not be allowed to remain in the school beyond the end of the current session. The subjects taught include the usual branches of a liberal education, and the work of the higher classes is arranged with special regard to matriculation at the University of London. Full information as to all matters connected with the school may be obtained of the Secretary.

University College (or North London) Hospital, opposite University College, GOWER STREET, was founded in 1833 for the gratuitous relief of poor, sick, and maimed persons, and the delivery of poor married women at their own homes, and for furthering the objects of the College, by affording improved means of instruction in medicine and surgery to the medical students of University College, under the superintendence of its professors. The front looking east was designed, 1833-1834, by Alfred Ainger, as also the north wing, of which the first stone was laid by Lord Brougham, May 20, 1846.

The building was altered and the number of beds increased from 160 to 200 in the summer and autumn of 1879. The hospital has separate departments for diseases of women; of children-fourteen beds being devoted to children under twelve years of age in separate wards; diseases of the skin; of the eye; of the ear; the throat and the teeth. The number of persons treated during the year 1888 was 38,487, of whom 2701 were in-patients. The annual cost of maintaining the Hospital in its present state is over £15,000, whilst its settled income amounts to only about £8000.

University of London, BURLINGTON GARDENS, established by Royal Charter in 1837 "for the advancement of religion and morality and the promotion of useful knowledge, without distinction of rank, sect, or party." The government of the University is vested in a Chancellor (Earl Granville), Vice-Chancellor, and Senate of thirty-six Fellows. The University is not a teaching but an examining body; conferring degrees after examination-considered to be more severe and searching than in the older universities—upon members of the various colleges throughout the kingdom, and private students who have previously matriculated at this university. The examiners are paid by Government. Degrees are conferred in Arts (bachelor and master), Literature (doctor), Science (bachelor and doctor), Laws (bachelor and doctor), Medicine (bachelor and doctor), Surgery (bachelor and master), and Music (bachelor). There are also examinations in Scriptural subjects, and subjects relating to public health.

The building, the principal façade of which is one of the most elegant and most characteristic for its purpose in London, was completed in 1870 from the designs of Mr. (afterwards Sir James) Pennethorne. It is of Portland stone, with columns of red Mansfield stone, and mouldings and carvings of Hopton stone; Palladian in style, the principal storey of the Corinthian order on a rusticated basement. Along the front are statues of men who may be regarded as impersonations of the University studies. On the roof line of the east wing are Galileo, La Place and Goethe (all by Mr. E. W. Wyon); on the centre Aristotle, Galen and Cicero, by Mr. J. S. Westmacott; Justinian, Archimedes and Plato, by Mr. F. Woodington; on the west wing David Hume, John Hunter and Sir Humphry Davy, by Mr. Noble. In the niches of the east wing are Cuvier, Liebnitz and Linnæus, by Mr. P. M'Dowell, R.A.; in the western niches Locke, Bacon and Adam Smith, by Mr. W. Theed. In the portico are seated statues of Harvey, Newton, Milton and Jeremy Bentham. The principal rooms of the interior are the Theatre, in the east wing, used on public occasions for conferring degrees, etc., and the examination rooms in the west wing, each about 72 feet by 56 feet; the waiting and secondary examination rooms, each 62 feet by 33 feet; laboratory and anatomical rooms, of about the same dimensions, and a spacious and handsome library-in which is an excellant collection of books, very largely due to the liberality of the late Lord Overstone and of