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Title: Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Thornbury, Walter, 1828-1876
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Publisher: London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin
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eau Fielding will be found inNos. 50 and 51 of the Tatlcr, drawn by the penof Sir Richard Steele. Part of the remains of the Palace was, for manyyears, the official residence of the Surveyor ofWorks to the Crown. Here, writes Mr. PeterCunningham, lived Inigo Jones; here died hissuccessor, Sir John Denham, the poet of CoopersHill, and his successor again, Sir Christopher Wren ;and here, in a fantastic house, immortalised bySwift in some ludicrous lines, lived Sir John Van-brugh. The house of the latter was designed andbuilt by himself, from the ruins of ^^hitehall, de-stroyed by fire in 1697. it Mr. P. Cunningham, in his Life of Inigo Jones,tells us an anecdote of the great architect connectedwith this place, illustrative of the insecurity of thetimes: Near his house in Scotland Yard, InigoJones, uniting with Nicholas Stone, the sculptor,buried his money in a private place. The Parlia-ment published an order encouraging servants t:) Sotland Vard.) FAMOUS RESIDENTS IN SCOTLAND YARD. 331
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3.32 OLD AND NEW LONDON. (Scotland Yard. inform of .such concealments, and as four of theworkmen were privy to the deposit, Jones and hisfriends r^emoved it privately, and with their ownhands burie-d it in Lambeth Marsh, Sir John Vanbrugh, who died in 1726, was cele-brated in his day not merely as an architect, butalso as a comic poet and an accomplished man ofletters. He was Comptroller of the Royal Worksand Palaces, and his house between Scotland Yardand Whitehall, which he built for himself, was re-markable for its tiny dimensions. His friendscalled it a pill-box, and Swift compared it to agoose-pie. The small size of his own house cer-tainly was a fair object of ridicule when contrastedwith the ponderous dimensions of his palace ofBlenheim, and his other public buildings. Theepitaph on his tomb is witty and well known— Lie heavy on him, earth, foi heLaid many a heavy load on thee. When he was made Clarencieux King-at-Arms Swiftsaid he might now build houses. The secret ofthis ri

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