. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. The Thames.] THAMES COiNSERVANCY. 289 cannot compel us, retorted the Lord Mayor. No ! exclaimed James ; * then Ill ruin you andyour city for ever. Ill remove my courts of law,my Court itself, and my Parliament to Winchesteror to Oxford, and make a desert of Westminster ;and then think what will become of you ! Mayit please your majesty, meekly but tirmly, * youare at liberty to remove yourself and your courtswherever you please ; but, sire, there will always Much of the scenery of the Thames in Londonand \^estminste
. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. The Thames.] THAMES COiNSERVANCY. 289 cannot compel us, retorted the Lord Mayor. No ! exclaimed James ; * then Ill ruin you andyour city for ever. Ill remove my courts of law,my Court itself, and my Parliament to Winchesteror to Oxford, and make a desert of Westminster ;and then think what will become of you ! Mayit please your majesty, meekly but tirmly, * youare at liberty to remove yourself and your courtswherever you please ; but, sire, there will always Much of the scenery of the Thames in Londonand \^estminster as it was at the commencementof the present century has been rescued fromoblivion by the brothers Thomas and Paul Sandby,both Royal Academicians. Their elaborate draw-ings, taken from the terrace and gardens ofSomerset House, exhibit on the Surrey side thelanding-stairs of Kupers Gardens, and on theMiddlesex shore that part of the old Palace at. THE CHINESE JUNK, be one consolation to the merchants of London :your majesty cannot take the Thalnes along withyou. The conservancy of the Thames was confirmedto the Lord INLayor and citizens of London byHenry IV., the same king whose dead body, by astrange fatality, is supposed to have been throwninto its waters. This jurisdiction was , in 1487; and in 1538 the CommonCouncil of London passed several regulations forthe improvement of the navigation of the river,many of which are in force down to the presenttime, though some have been allowed to lapse, asout of date, and applicable only to a bygone stateof things.* * See Vol. i , p. 442. 121—Vol. III. Whitehall, then inhabited by the Duchess of Port-land, on the site of which afterwards the housesof Lord Farnborough and other noblemen wereerected. There is also a scare© and valuable printshowing the Thames at the Temple Gardens, exe-cuted and published, in 1671, under the auspices ofSir Heneage Finch, afterwar
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