portrait of the Prince (afterwards Edward V.) is the only one known of him, and has been engraved by Vertue among the Heads of the Kings. Of the English books in the library printed before 1600, there is a very valuable catalogue, and a "List of some of the Early Printed Books," which for its bibliographical notes is even more valuable: both are by Dr. Maitland. Of the manuscripts there is an admirable catalogue commenced by Wharton, and completed and published by Dr. Todd. The first librarian of Lambeth Palace was the learned Henry Wharton, and among his successors have been Edmund Gibson, the editor of Camden's Britannia, author of the Codex Juris Ecclesiastici Anglicani, and Bishop of London; Henry John Todd, the editor of Johnson's Dictionary; and Samuel Roffy Maitland, author of Essays of the Dark Ages and the Catalogues above referred to. The library

is open to students, or for purposes of special inquiry.

The whole of that part of the palace which forms the residence of the archbishops was erected (1829-1834) by Archbishop Howley, from the designs of Mr. Edward Blore, at a cost of about £70,000, of which the greater part was defrayed by the archbishop out of his private funds. It lies to the north of the great quadrangle, in which are the old buildings, is of Bath stone, and presents a stately appearance. The west or principal front is 160 feet long, the main entrance being flanked by two octagonal towers. The rooms are spacious and well proportioned; the archbishop's sitting-room and private library is 44 feet by 26, with a good bay window at the end overlooking the Thames. The drawing-room, 47 feet by 25 feet, is lit by a spacious oriel. The Guard Chamber, 58 feet by 27 feet, was built or restored by Archbishop Morton, but rebuilt by Blore for Archbishop Howley; the open timber roof is that of the old Guard Chamber. In this room, which serves as the state dining-room, are hung the portraits (half or three-quarter lengths) of the archbishops since the Reformation. Other portraits are in the adjacent picture gallery. Observe.-Archbishop Warham (d. 1532), by Holbein, dated and genuine, one of three, and, as is believed, the original. It belonged to Archbishop Parker (d. 1575), and in the inventory of his goods is appraised at £5.1 The portrait of Archbishop Arundel, opposite to it, is a copy of that at Penshurst. Over the door is a good portrait of Archbishop Abbot. Laud, by Vandyck, a very fine picture. On the right and left of the great fireplace-a noticeable feature of the room—are Archbishops Potter by Hudson, and Herring by Hogarth. The complexion of Archbishop Secker, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, has faded, else the picture is in good preservation. Archbishop Tillotson, by Mrs. Beale. Tillotson (d. 1694) was the first prelate who wore a wig; his was not unlike the natural hair, and worn without powder. Archbishop Wake, by Isaac Whood. Wake, who died in 1737, was the last archbishop who went to Parliament by water. The archbishop's barge was a stately part of his equipage when the Thames was the ordinary highway. The Grand Duke Cosmo

1 Archæologia, vol. xxx. p. 10.

describes it as a "boat of noble shape, and ornamented with the ensign of the archbishop's dignity, always on the river, in which he can at any moment cross over to Whitehall."1 Archbishop Howley, by Pickersgill, said to be an excellent likeness. Others will be noticed for the prelates represented, if not for their value as paintings, of Chicheley, Cranmer, Parker, Juxon, Sheldon, Sancroft, Cornwallis, by Dance, and Manners Sutton, by Sir William Beechey.

We have two contemporary notices of Latimer in the pleasant grounds of Lambeth Palace, one by Sir Thomas More, the other by Latimer himself. On April 13, 1534, Sir Thomas More wrote to his

daughter

I tarried in the old burned chamber that looketh into the garden, and would not go down because of the heat. In that time saw I Master Doctor Latimer come into the garden, and there walked he with divers other doctors and chaplains of my Lord of Canterbury. And very merry I saw him; for he laughed, and took one or other about the neck so handsomely that if they had been women I would have weened he had been waxen wanton.

I trouble my Lord of Canterbury; and being at his house now and then, I walk in the garden looking in my book, as I can do but little good at it. But something I must needs do to satisfy this place. I am no sooner in the garden and have read awhile, but by and by cometh there some one or other knocking at the gate. Anon cometh my man and saith, "Sir, there is one at the gate would speak with you.”Latimer to Edward VI., Sermon 2, p. 127.

Here is an entry showing how observances were changing at Lambeth in Reformation days :

1547.-This year the Archbishop of Canterbury did eat meat openly in Lent, in the Hall of Lambeth, the like of which was never seen since England was a Christian country.-MS. Diary, quoted by Froude, vol. v. p. 34.

When I first went to Lambeth [on his translation from London] my Coach, Horses, and Men sunk to the bottom of the Thames in the Ferry-Boat which was over-laden, but, I praise God for it, I lost neither Man nor Horse.-Laud's Diary. November 15, 1635, Sunday.-At afternoon the greatest Tide that hath been seen. It came within my gates, walks, cloysters, and stables at Lambeth.-Laud's Diary.

Át Lambeth mye house was beset at midnight, May ii., with 500 people that came thither with a drumme beatinge before them. I had some little notice of it about 2 hours before, and went to White Hall leavinge mye house as well ordered as I could with such armes and men as I could gett readye. And I thanke God, bye his goodness, kept all safe. Some were taken and to be tried for their lives.Laud to Lord Conway, May 25, 1640 (Gentleman's Magazine, April 1850, p. 349). November 24, 1642.-The Souldiers at Lambeth House broke open the Chappel door and offered violence to the Organ; but before much hurt was done, the captains heard of it and stayed them.-Laud's Diary.

July 22, 1665.-The Duke of Albemarle being gone to dinner to my Lord of Canterbury's, I thither, and there walked and viewed the new Hall, a new old fashioned hall, as much as possible; begun, and means left for the ending of it, by Bishop Juxon.-Pepys.

Lambeth Terrace, LAMBETH ROAD. Hogarth had lodgings here soon after his marriage; and whilst living here he assisted in the decoration of Vauxhall.

1 Travels, p. 320.

Lambeth Walk, LAMBETH ROAD, from China Walk to Prince's Road. William Hone (Every-Day Book) first set up in business as a bookseller in this place in July 1800.

Lancaster Court, STRAND, now absorbed in Wellington Street, was so called from the Liberty of the Duchy of Lancaster, within which it stood. The office of the Duchy is in Lancaster Place, the successor of Lancaster Court. Thomson, the author of the Seasons, asks Dr. Cranston, August 7, 1735, to direct to him at the "Lancaster Coffee House, Lancaster Court, in the Strand, London." Wilkes endorsed

the long letter he received from Junius, August 21, 1771, "Received by a chairman who said he brought it from a gentleman whom he saw in Lancaster Court in the Strand, J. W." James Perry of the Morning Chronicle at one time lived in Lancaster Court, and his son-in-law Porson used to address him as "My Lord of Lancaster." There was formerly another Lancaster Court in the Strand, opposite Craven Street, which led to St. Martin's Church.

Lancaster Gate, BAYSWATER ROAD, a double row of mansions with a wide opening, in the centre of which is placed the handsome building of Christchurch, erected 1853-1854, from the designs of Messrs. Francis, architects. The tower and spire were added 1863, at a cost of about £2600. This place occupies the site of Hopwood's Nursery Grounds and the Victoria Tea-Gardens.

Lancaster Street, BOROUGH ROAD. The name has been altered from Surrey Street in memory of Joseph Lancaster, founder of the British and Foreign School Society, whose schools were built here about 1801 by Lancaster and his friends, mostly Quakers.

Langbourn (Ward of), one of the twenty-six wards of London. It extends east and west from Lombard Street to Mark Lane.

Langbourne Ward, so called of a long bourne of sweet water, which of old time breaking out into Fenchurch Street, ran down the same street and Lombard Street to the West End of St. Mary Woolnoth's church, where turning south, and breaking into small shares, rills, or streams, it left the name of Share borne Lane [Sherborne Lane] or South borne lane (as I have read) because it ran south to the river of Thames.-Stow, p. 75.

Lombard Street, Fenchurch Street, Billiter Lane, and part of Gracechurch Street are in this ward, as are the following churches: Allhallows, Lombard Street; St. Edmund's, Lombard Street; St. Mary Woolnoth. St. Gabriel's, Fenchurch, and St. Nicholas Acon (also in this ward) were destroyed in the Great Fire, and not rebuilt; Allhallows Staining fell down in 1761; St. Dionis Backchurch was taken down in 1879.

Langham Place, REGENT STREET, so called after Sir James Langham, Bart., of Cottesbrook, Northamptonshire, who owned the ground. The church, with its extinguisher-like steeple, was built 18221824, from the designs of John Nash, and is dedicated to All Souls.

The Langham Hotel, opposite the church, one of the finest in the country, was erected, 1864-1865, from the designs of Messrs. Giles and Murray, at a cost of about £300,000. In No. 15 (now No. 6 Portland Place) Sir James Mackintosh died, May 30, 1832. He was buried at Hampstead. James Fergusson, F.R.S., the author of the History of Architecture, lived for many years at No. 20, part of a block of buildings erected 1842-1843.

Lansdowne House, No. 54, on the south side of BERKELEY SQUARE, was built, 1765-1767, from the designs of Messrs. Adam, for the Earl of Bute when minister to George III., and sold by him, before completion, to Lord Shelburne, afterwards Marquis of Lansdowne, for £22,000, which was supposed to be £3000 less than it cost.1 As both these noblemen had rendered themselves unpopular by the manner in which, as prime ministers, they had brought great wars to a conclusion, it became a saying in respect of this house that it had been "built by one peace and paid for by another."2 Priestley was living in Lansdowne House as librarian and philosophic companion to Lord Shelburne, when, August 1774, he made the discovery of oxygen. The first cabinet council of Earl Grey's ministry was held at Lansdowne House.

The Sculpture Gallery, 100 feet by 30 feet, commenced 1778, contains the collection formed by Gavin Hamilton, long a resident in Rome. At the east end is a large semicircular recess, containing the most important statues. Down the sides of the room are ranged the busts and other objects of ancient art. Observe.-Statue of the Youthful Hercules, heroic size, found in 1790, with the Townley Discobulus, near Hadrian's Villa; Mercury, heroic size, found at Tor Columbaro, on the Appian Way; statue of a Sleeping Female, the last work of Canova; also, a copy of his Venus, the original of which is in the Pitti Palace at Florence. A marble statue of a Child holding an almsdish, by Rauch of Berlin, will repay attention. The Library was added about 1790 by George Dance jun., R.A.

The collection of pictures was formed by the third marquis (18091850). Observe.—St. John preaching in the Wilderness, a small early picture by Raphael. Half-length of Count Federigo da Bozzola, by Seb. del Piombo. Full-length of Don Justino Francisco Neve, by Murillo. Head of himself, by Velasquez. Virgin and Child, a remarkably fine specimen of Schidone. Peg Woffington, by Hogarth. twelve pictures by Sir Joshua Reynolds—including the Sleeping Girl, the Strawberry Girl, Hope Nursing Love, and the noble portrait of Laurence Sterne. Sir Robert Walpole, and his first wife, Catherine Shorter, by Eckhart (in a frame by Gibbons—from Strawberry Hill). Portrait of Pope, by Jervas. Portrait of Flaxman, by Jackson, R.A. Deer Stalkers returning from the hills, one of the most carefully studied and refined of Sir E. Landseer's works. Italian Peasants approaching Rome, by Sir C. L. Eastlake. Sir Roger de Coverley and the Spectator 1 London Chronicle, October 1765, p. 344. 2 Wraxall, vol. ii. p. 319.

going to church; and Sir Roger de Coverley and the Gipsies, by C. R. Leslie, R.A. Olivia's return to her Parents, from the Vicar of Wakefield; and Macheath in Prison, by G. S. Newton, R.A. Some changes have been made in the arrangement of the pictures, and a few have been transferred to Bowood. The collection can only be seen by special permission.

The iron bars at the two ends of Lansdowne passage (a near cut from Curzon Street to Hay Hill) were put up, late in the last century, in consequence of a mounted highwayman, who had committed a robbery in Piccadilly, having escaped from his pursuers through this narrow passage, by riding his horse up the steps. This anecdote was told by the late Thomas Grenville to Sir Frankland Lewis. It occurred while George Grenville was minister, the robber passing his residence in Bolton Street full gallop.

Lant Street, SOUTHWARK, from the south side of Blackman Street to the Southwark Bridge Road, named after the family of Lant, whose estate it was. In Horwood's Map, 1799, it appears as Old Here lodged Dickens's Mr. Bob Sawyer.

and New Lant Street.

There is a repose about Lant Street in the Borough which sheds a gentle melancholy upon the soul. There are always a good many houses to let in the street, it is a bye street too, and its dulness is soothing.. In this happy retreat are colonized a few clear-starchers, a sprinkling of journeymen bookbinders, one or two prison agents for the Insolvent Court, several small housekeepers who are employed in the Docks, a handful of mantua makers, and a seasoning of jobbing tailors. The majority of the inhabitants either direct their energies to the letting of furnished apartments, or devote themselves to the healthful and invigorating pursuit of mangling.-Pickwick (1837), chap. xxxi.

Lauderdale House, ALDERSGATE STREET, the town house of the Duke of Lauderdale of the time of Charles II. and of Scott's Old Mortality. It stood on the east side of Aldersgate Street, north of Jewin Street, between Crown Court and Hare Court (i.e. between Nos. 51 and 63 of the present street). Lauderdale Buildings, Nos. 58 and 59, mark the site. The house, which stood back from the street, was built of red bricks, with sash windows. There are three views of it by Tomkins, in the Crowle Pennant-one representing a room, on the second floor, with its small square panelled sides, its blue china tiles in the fireplace, and its large carving of the Lauderdale arms on the chimneypiece.

Law Courts, New. The very insufficient accommodation and situation of the old Law Courts at Westminster pressing with continually increasing force on the attention of the authorities, the Government decided to bring them together in a more central building near the Inns of Court. The site selected was on the north side of the Strand, stretching westward from Temple Bar to Clement's Inn and reaching back to Carey Street. An Act was obtained for purchasing and clearing the ground, which was done at a cost of £1,453,000, the area so cleared being about 5 acres. Whilst this was in progress