. Walks in London . loe the plot of Sir Richard Willis for seizingthe persons of the three princes, sons of Charles I. Havingdisclosed his plans, he discovered Thurloes clerk apparentlyasleep upon his desk. Pearing treason, he would havekilled him on the spot, but Thurloe prevented him, andafter passing a dagger repeatedly over his unflinching coun-tenance he was satisfied that the clerk was really was not asleep, however, and had heard everything,and found means to warn the princes. Two of the old gables have sun-dials with the mottoes—**Qua redit, nescitis horam,—. * Ex hoc momento
. Walks in London . loe the plot of Sir Richard Willis for seizingthe persons of the three princes, sons of Charles I. Havingdisclosed his plans, he discovered Thurloes clerk apparentlyasleep upon his desk. Pearing treason, he would havekilled him on the spot, but Thurloe prevented him, andafter passing a dagger repeatedly over his unflinching coun-tenance he was satisfied that the clerk was really was not asleep, however, and had heard everything,and found means to warn the princes. Two of the old gables have sun-dials with the mottoes—**Qua redit, nescitis horam,—. * Ex hoc momento pendct 84 WALKS IN LONDON. seternitas. The Perpendicular Chapel, at the right of theentrance, was built from designs of Inigo Jones, and israised upon arches, which form a kind of crypt, open at thesides, where Pepys went to walk under the chapel, byagreement. The stained windows are remarkably good ;they represent different saints, and it is not to be wonderedat that Archbishop Laud thought it odd that so much. Chapel and Gateway, Lincolns Inn. abuse should be raised against his windows at Lambeth,while these passed unnoticed, yet would not speak of it lesthe should thereby set some furious spirit on work todestroy those harmless goodly windows to the just dislikeof that worthy society. The chapel bell was taken by theEarl of Essex, at Cadiz, in 1596. William Prynne, thePuritan, was buried here. Dr. Donne, Usher, Tillotson,Warburton, and Heber were preachers of Lincolns Inn. LINCOLNS INN FIELDS, 85 In the porch is a monument to Spencer Perceval (murdered May II, 1812), Attorney-General and Treasurer of Lincolns Inn. Crossing one end of the old-fashioned brick square of Neiv hiriy we reach a handsome group of brick buildings by Hard^vicke, 1843-45, comprising the Hall and the Library, In the former are a great fresco by G. F, Watts (1854-59), representing The Origin of Legislation, Hogarths picture of Paul before Felix, and a fine statue of Lord Eldon by Westmacott. The la
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