The bickering went on. Lady Hatton complained so much about the terms of the bargain for Hatton House that at length, we are told, "the Duchess took her at her word, and left it on her hands, whereby she loses £1500 a year and £6000 for life;" and a fortnight later (March 12, 1625) we hear that "the Duchess of Richmond has retired. from Hatton House to the other [her own] part of Ely House, where she has the Lent Sermons as orderly as those at Whitehall." 1 In the reign of Charles I. Ely House was again the bishops' dwelling. The parish Register of St. Andrew's Holborn records : February 25, 1637-1638.-John (Francis) White, D.D., and sometime Bp. of Ely, died at his house, called Ely House, in Holborn, but buried in St. Paull's Church. October 11, 1644.-Wm. Tyndall, a Minister, sometime of Alton in Hampshire, died in Ely House, Holborn, being then a prisoner there, the 10th. . September 27, 1645.-John Chadwicke, a minister, a Lancashire man, died a prisoner in Ely House, 26th.-Notes and Queries, 2d S., vol. xii. pp. 228-431. Lady Hatton "dyed in London, on the 3rd January, 1646, at her house in Holbourne," having effectually held her castle against husband, ambassador, duchess, and bishop. When Charles II. was restored to his throne the bishop returned to Ely House. Matthew Wren, Bishop of Ely (the uncle of Sir Christopher) died here in 1607, and his successor, Benjamin Laney, in 1675. June 27, 1675.-At Ely House I went to the consecration of my worthy friend, the learned Dr. Barlow, Warden of Queen's Coll., Oxon, now made Bishop of Lincoln. After it succeeded a magnificent feast, where were the Duke of Ormond, Earl of Lauderdaile, the Lord Treasurer, Lord Keeper, etc.—Evelyn. In Bishop Patrick's time (1691-1707) a piece of ground was made over to the see for the erection of a new chapel; and the Hatton property saddled with a rent-charge of £100 per annum payable to the see. Ely House continued to be "the residence of the Bishop of Ely when in town,' ,"2 but seems to have been suffered to fall gradually to ruin. Thus in 1761 we find "the city mansion of the Bishop of Ely" described as standing "on a large piece of ground. Before it is a spacious court, and behind it a garden of considerable extent; but it is so ill kept that it scarcely deserves the name. The buildings are very old; and consist of a large hall, several spacious rooms, and a good chapel."3 On the death, in 1762, of the last Lord Hatton, the Hatton property in Holborn reverted to the Crown. An amicable arrangement was effected; the see, in 1772, transferring to the Crown. all its right to Ely Place, on an Act (12 Geo. III., c. 43) for building, and making over to the Bishop of Ely a spacious house, 37 Dover Street, Piccadilly, still the property of the see, with an annuity of £200 payable for ever. The buildings, with the exception of the chapel, were afterwards taken down and the land let for building on in 1775. "This Chapel stands on the Western side of the ancient quadrangle of Ely Palace on Holborn Hill, adjoining to the garden and field in which the writer of these articles saw rabbits running wild, previous to the whole being sold to Messrs. Gorham and Cole, who raised the 1 Cal. State Pap., 1619-1623, pp. 485, 497. 2 Hatton (1721), p. 626. 3 Dodsley, vol. ii. p. 273. present buildings called Ely Place; and the stones now forming the pavement next to the kerb of the footway were those of the original front of the antient Palace and Offices. The entrance to Holborn was by a double arch for carriages and foot, constructed of red brick, of very antient date."1 The Chapel of St. Ethelreda still remains, and is the only part of the ancient Ely Place left standing. It is of the Decorated period (i.e. 1307-1377), but only the walls of the original chapel are left. When the chapel ceased to be used for Episcopal service, it was long kept closed, or used as a storehouse; it was then let for some years as a National School. After again lying for some time unoccupied it was, in 1843, taken by the Welsh Episcopalians, and used for their service till about 1871. On January 28, 1874, it was sold by auction for £5250, the purchasers being the Lazarist Fathers of the Order of Charity, by whom it was restored at a great cost, many of the leading English and some foreign Catholics subscribing liberally, and opened with great pomp as a Roman Catholic Chapel by Cardinal Manning on St. Ethelreda's Day, June 23, 1879. The windows contain good original tracery. The great east window is especially fine; it has been restored and filled with painted glass by the Duke of Norfolk. Beneath the chapel is a vaulted undercroft, formed no doubt on account of the fall of the ground; it has been restored so as to serve as a second chapel. The chapel is on the west side. The modern Ely Place when first erected was a double row of genteel residences, shut off from the main street by iron gates and a lodge, and having no thoroughfare. Curran had a house here. There was a small space of dead wall at that time directly facing Curran's house in Ely Place, against which the attorney [Curran's brother] procured a written permission to build a little wooden box. He accordingly got a carpenter to erect a cobbler's stall there for him; and having assumed the dress of a Jobson, he wrote over his stall, Curran, Cobler,-Shoes soled or heeled. When the stall is shut enquire over the way."-Sir Jonas Barrington, Personal Sketches, vol. i. p. 213. 66 Sir Charles Barry commenced his professional career in 1820 in "a small house [No. 39] in Ely Place, Holborn, a position of no great pretension, but one recommended by its quietness, centrality, and cheapness."2 He remained here till his removal to Foley Place in 1827. The houses are now all let for business purposes. Emanuel Hospital or Dacre's Almshouses, JAMES STREET, WESTMINSTER. Established pursuant to the will (December 20, 1594) of Anne Lady Dacre, widow of Gregory, the last Lord Dacre of the South, and sister of Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst and Earl of Dorset, the poet, "towards the relief of aged people and bringing up of children in virtue and good and laudable acts in the same Hospital." The Charter of Incorporation is dated December 17, 1600. Gregory Lord Dacre died September 25, 1594, and Anne his widow May 14, 1595. They are buried in old Chelsea Church, where there is a stately 1 Gentleman's Magazine for May 1816, p. 395. 2 Life, by his Son, p. 64. monument to their memory. On the death in 1623 of the last surviving executor of Lady Dacre, the guardianship of the hospital descended by the Charter of Incorporation to the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London, under whose superintendence it still remains. The original buildings having become decayed, the present hospital was built in the reign of Queen Anne. The hospital accommodates twenty inmates, and pensions ten men and women belonging to Westminster, Chelsea, or Hayes, Middlesex. The schools formerly connected with the hospital have been disconnected from it, and now form a portion of the Westminster United Schools formed in 1873. The Rev. William Beloe, the bibliographer, was master of the hospital from 1783 to 1808, and the present master is the Rev. J. Maskell. Endell Street, BLOOMSBURY, running from Long Acre, opposite Bow Street, to Broad Street, St. Giles's, was formed about 1846 by widening Hanover Street and Old Belton Street. [See Belton Street, Old and New.] It was named after the Rev. James Endell Tyler, the then Rector of St. Giles's. On the east side are Christ Church (which see), the St. Giles's and Bloomsbury Baths and Wash-houses; the St. Giles's and Bloomsbury Union Workhouse, a spacious and well-arranged building; the British Lying-in Hospital, and Messrs. Lavers and Barraud's painted glassworks: on the west side is the Swiss Protestant Church, and, at the corner of Broad Street, the St. Giles's National Schools, designed by Mr. E. M. Barry. Engine Street, PICCADILLY, was so called from a water-wheel in the Tyburn. The name has been changed to Brick Street. English Tavern, near CHARING CROSS; famous for its "compounded ales," as Locke the philosopher "remembered " when writing. directions for a foreign friend about to visit England in 1679. Erber or Erbar (The), a mansion by the Thames, "on the east side of Dowgate Street," City. On the south side of Walbrooke ward, from Candlewicke Street, in the midway betwixt London Stone and Walbrooke corner, is a little lane with a turnpike in the midst thereof, and in the same a proper parish church, called St. Mary Bothaw, or Boatchaw, by the Erber. . . . The Erbar is an ancient place so called, but not of Walbrooke Ward.-Stow, p. 86. ... Not remote from hence [the Steelyard] stood the Erber, a vast house or palace. Edward III., for it is not traced higher, granted it to one of the noble family of the Scroopes; from them it fell to the Nevills. Richard, the great Earl of Warwick, possessed it, and lodged here his father, the Earl of Salisbury, with five hundred men, in the famous congress of barons, in the year 1458, in which Henry VI. may be said to have been virtually deposed. It often changed masters: Richard III. repaired it, in whose time it was called "the King's Palace." It was rebuilt by Sir Thomas Pullison, mayor, in 1584; and was afterwards dignified by being the residence of our illustrious navigator, Sir Francis Drake.-Pennant's London, ed. 1790, p. 309. In 13 Richard II. 1390, mention is made of a quantity of putrid fish discovered in a "certain cellar near to the Herber." Mr. Riley 1 Memorials, p. 517. 1 refers this to the Cold Herbergh, but it is much more likely to be a misspelling of the Erber. Essex Court, MIDDLE TEMPLE, the first turning on the west side of Middle Temple Lane from Fleet Street. [See Essex House.] June 10, 1640.—I repaired with my brother to the Tearme, to goe into our new lodgings (that were formerly in Essex Court), being a very handsome apartment just over the hall-court, but four pair of stairs high, which gave us the advantage of the fairer prospect.—Evelyn. Porson lived at No. 5 (now rebuilt) before gaining his professorship. J. Singleton Copley (Lord Lyndhurst) at No. 3 in 1803. On a tablet between Nos. 2 and 3 is the date 1677. Essex House, STRAND, stood on the site of the Outer Temple, and of the present Essex Street and Devereux Court, and derived its name from Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, Queen Elizabeth's favourite. Originally the town house or inn of the see of Exeter (by lease from the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem), it passed at the Reformation into the hands of William Lord Paget. The same hath since been called Paget House, because William Lord Paget enlarged and possessed it. Then Leycester House, because Robert Dudley, Earl of Leycester, of late new built there, and now Essex House, of the Earl of Essex lodging there.-Stow, p. 165. In Leicester House died Sir Nicholas Throgmorton, February 12, 1571, not, it is said, without suspicion of poison. Spenser refers to Essex House and its unfortunate owner in his Prothalamion :— Next whereunto there stands a stately place, Yet therein now doth lodge a noble peer, Great England's glory, and the world's wide wonder Whose dreadfull name late through all Spaine did thunder. The news At Essex House, smarting under the Queen's displeasure, and alarmed by a summons to appear before the council, the Earl of Essex summoned his friends and adherents to gather in all haste around him, and by the morning of Sunday, February 8, 1601, they had arrived to the number of "three hundred gentlemen of prime note." was at once carried to court, and the Lord Keeper Egerton, ChiefJustice Popham, and some other dignitaries were sent by the Queen to Essex House to call upon the Earl to explain his proceedings. They were at first refused admittance, but after a time were let in through a wicket, and conducted to the library. The Earl by this time had become frantic with excitement, and after ordering the Chancellor and his companions to be locked up, he himself, with the Earl of Southampton and a large body of friends and servants, sallied out from Essex House and marched madly through the Strand, Fleet Street, Cheapside, shouting, "For the Queen, a Plot, a Plot." Then followed the retreat, a scuffle on Ludgate Hill, and the return by the river to Essex House, only to find that the royal messengers, whom he had doubtless intended to hold as hostages, had, during his absence, been released by his secretary;1 and that a force was gathering around his house against which it was hopeless to contend. At ten at night, when cannon were brought up and the ladies in the house became frightened, the Earl and his associates surrendered, and he and Lord Southampton were carried off prisoners to Lambeth Palace. When the Count Palatine of the Rhine came to this country in 1613 to marry the Lady Elizabeth, "The place appointed for his most usual abode was Essex House, near Temple Bar." He was treated with great honour. The King gave him a ring worth £1800, and he was handsomely entertained at Essex House; but, writes a courtier, "he cares not for ring nor tennis, but is always with his mistress." Here is a note of the economies of Essex House on this occasion: Memorial of what will be required for the tables of the Elector Palatine. Viz. ten covers for his own table; eighteen for the table of persons of rank; the third table for the 14 pages is to be served with what is removed from the first; and the fourth for the 24 valets, coachmen, etc., with what goes away from the second. Cal. State Papers, 1611-1618, p. 153. Charles Hay, "sonne to the Lord Hay, Viscount Doncaster, was baptized in Essex House, November 27, 1618," and in the same house in 1627-1628, Anne Sydney, daughter of the Earl of Leicester, was baptized.2 Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, the parliamentary general, was born in this house in 1592, and died in it in 1646. In the Cavalier songs of the period it is often nicknamed "Cuckold's Hall," in allusion to the conduct of his wives. Here, after the battle of Newbury, the Earl received a congratulatory visit from the House of Commons, headed by their Speaker, and by the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London in their scarlet gowns. By a lease dated March 11, 1639, and in consideration of the sum of £1100, Lord Essex let to the Earl of Hertford and Lady Frances, his wife, for the period of ninety-nine years, a moiety or one-half of Essex House. This Earl of Hertford was the William Seymour connected with Lady Arabella Stuart. The Lord Treasurer Southampton was living in Essex House in 1660, and Sir Orlando Bridgman, the Lord Keeper, in 1669, when Pepys describes it as "a large, but ugly house." 5 "At length," says Strype, "it was purchased by Dr. Barbon, the great builder, and by him and other undertakers converted into buildings as now it is."6 In a portion of the old fabric, which still retained the name of Essex House, the Cottonian library was kept from 1712 to 1730. This part of the house was subsequently inhabited by Paterson, the auctioneer, and ultimately taken down in July 1 According to another account they were released by Sir Ferdinando Gorges by the Earl's authority. Spedding's Letters and Life of Francis Bacon, vol. ii. p. 210; Life and Times of Bacon, vol. i. p. 314. 2 Register of St. Clement's Danes. Finetti VOL. II 1777. Philoxenis, 1656, p. 2. 3 Whitelocke, p. 74. 4 4 Collectanea Top. et. Gen., vol. viii. p. 309. 5 Pepys, January 24, 1668-1669. 6 Strype, B. iv. p. 117. C |