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Let us also notice the two pieces of Portland stone designed by Inigo Jones, on the south, and the lawn or meadow in front of the house, concerning which exists the tradition that Ireton and Cromwell conferred there to be out of the reach of eavesdroppers. Our Holland House visit has indeed been a long one, yet we might have remained twice the time, and yet have far from exhausted its treasures. Still, our ramble has worn out the day, evening is closing in, darkness is coming on, and Holland House boasts of two ghosts. One, indeed-that of the First Lord. -confines himself to the Gilt Room, and need give us no anxiety, but there is another—and an outdoor one-who was seen by his daughter Lady Diana Rich in broad daylight. She met her double, habit and everything as in a looking glass. Her sister also saw "the like of herself before she died." Lest, then, so hideous a spectacle should appal our eyes, let us hasten down the avenue of elms, happy if we conclude our moonlight ramble as gunfire sounds from the House, the clock striking eleven. The origin of this gunfire seems uncertain; some say it comes from Spain, others that it is to show that the servants

are properly armed against thieves. But, whatever may be its origin, it warns us to pass through the large iron gates ornamented with the hand and coronet, and, in Lord Carlisle's words, to bid adieu to

The pile to Addison so dear,

Where Sully feasted, and where Rogers' song
Still adds sweet music to the perfum'd air,

And gently leads each grace and muse along ;”

or we may then heartily re-echo the wish which Hookham Frere cut on the window of a

room in

the East Turret:-
:-

"May neither fire destroy, nor waste impair,

Nor time consume thee, till the twentieth Heir.

May Taste respect thee, and may Fashion spare."

on which Rogers remarked, "I wonder where he got

the diamond?"

INDEX.

Abbotts, Church of St. Mary, origin of the name
Addison, the Poet, his connection with Holland

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Ahlen, King George the First imprisons his wife at
Airlie, Earl of, present owner of Holly Lodge
Albemarle, present at the deathbed of William the

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son of the above, hero in Tickell's poem of

Kensington Gardens

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Allen, John, the author, a visitor at Holland House 256-257
Anne, Queen, sketch of her life at Kensington

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Assassination Plot of 1696, account of

Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester, his connection

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Avanley, Lord, anecdote of his retort to Lady

Holland ...

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Blackmore, Sir Richard, Poet and Physician, a
resident in Kensington Square

Blessington, Countess of, sketch of her life
Blessington, Earl of

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Bowack, the antiquarian, his account of Kensington

in the seventeenth century

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Boyle, Richard, resides at Camden House

Brownlow, Lady, her description of Caroline of

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Browning, Mrs., verses on the accession of Queen

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Buckhurst, Lord, his game of play with William

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Bunbury, Sir Charles, M.P., marries Lady Sarah

Lennox

Briton

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Burke, his description of the No. 45 of the North

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Burlington, Countess of, resides at Campden House
Burnet, Bishop, tutor to the young Duke of

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Byron, his poem, "The Waltz," quoted

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Camp, formed in Hyde Park in time of George

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Campes, Little John of, Earl of Oxford

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Canterbury, Archbishop of, announces the death of
William the Fourth to the Queen

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Carlisle, Lord, verses by, on Holland House

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Carteret, Lord, his remark on Henry Fox's mar-

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Charles the Tenth, of France, visits Kensington

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Clarendon, Lord, his remarks on Henry Rich,

Lord Holland

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Claypole, Mrs., confidante to Queen Caroline
Colby, Sir Thomas, the miser, anecdote of
Coleridge, the poet, lived in Edwardes Square
Colmans, the, buried in Kensington Churchyard...

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