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    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 365, April 11, 1829
    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 365, April 11, 1829
    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 365, April 11, 1829
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    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 365, April 11, 1829

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      Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 365

      Author: Various

      Release Date: July 10, 2004 [EBook #3246]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MIRROR OF LITERATURE ***

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      THE MIRROR

      OF

      LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.

      OLD SOMERSET HOUSE.

      OLD SOMERSET HOUSE.

      The Engraving on the annexed page is, perhaps, one of the greatest antiquarian treasures it has for some time been our good fortune to introduce to the readers of the MIRROR. It represents the original SOMERSET HOUSE, which derived its name from Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, maternal uncle to Edward VI., and Protector of the realm during most of the reign of that youthful sovereign. The time at which this nobleman commenced his magnificent palace (called Somerset House) has been generally faxed at the year 1549; but that he had a residence on this spot still earlier, is evident from two of his own letters, as well as from his cofferer's account, which states that from April 1, 1548, to October 7, 1551, "the entire cost of Somerset House, up to that period, amounted to 10,091l. 9s. 2d. By comparing this sum with the value of money in the present day, we may form some idea of the splendour of the Protector's palace, as well as from Stow, who, in his Survaie, second edition, published in 1603, styles it a large and beautiful house, but yet unfinished. The architect is supposed to have been John of Padua, who came to England in the reign of Henry VIII.—this being one of the first buildings designed from the Italian orders that was ever erected in this kingdom. Stow tells us there were several buildings pulled down to make room for this splendid structure, among which he enumerates the original parish church of St. Mary-le-Strand; Chester's or Strand Inne; a house belonging to the Bishop of Llandaff; in the high street a fayre bridge, called Strand Bridge, and under it a lane or waye, down to the landing-place on the banke of Thames;" and the Inne or London lodging of the Bishop of Chester and the Bishop of Worcester. Seymour states, that the site of St. Mary's church became a part of the garden of Somerset House; and that when the Protector pulled down the old church, he promised to build a new one for the parishioners, but his death prevented his fulfilling that engagement. The Strand Bridge formed part of the public highway; and through it, according to Maitland, ran a small watercourse from the fields, which, gliding along a lane below, had its influx to the Thames near Somerset Stairs.¹

      Besides the places above mentioned, the palace-building Protector pulled down part of the Priory church of St. John, Clerkenwell, a chapel and cloisters near St. Paul's cathedral, for the sake of the materials. He was, however, soon overtaken by justice, for in the proclamation, October 8, 1549, against the Duke of Somerset, previously to his arrest, he is charged with enriching himselfe, and building sumptuous and faire houses, during all times of the wars in France and Scotland, leaving the king's poore soldiers unpaid of their wages. After the attainder and execution of the Protector, on Tower Hill, January 22, 1552-3, Somerset Place devolved to the Crown, and was conferred by the king upon his sister, the Princess Elizabeth, who resided here during her short visit to the court in the reign of Queen Mary. Elizabeth, after her succession to the throne, lent Somerset Place to Lord Hunsdon, (her chamberlain,) whose guest she occasionally became. He died here in 1596. On the death of Elizabeth, it appears to have become a jointure-house, or dotarial palace, of the queens' consort; of whom Anne of Denmark, queen of James I. kept a splendid court here. Arthur Wilson, in his History of King James, generally calls this mansion the queen's palace in the Strand; but it was more commonly called Denmark House; and Strype says that by the queen this house was much repaired and beautified, and improved by new buildings and enlargements. She also brought hither water from Hyde Park in pipes. Dr. Fuller remarks that this edifice was

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