. London . 1 ICU! Up - ^j OLD TAVERN Bacon as a very good house indeed, though the arrange-ment of the banqueting-room was not exactly as thephilosopher would have it. The College of Christs in its oldform, with the garden square beyond, was still more after themanner recommended by Bacon. It will be seen that we are now a good way removedfrom the Saxon Hall with the people sleeping on the floor,yet Bacons house lineally descends from that the old houses in London were built in this way, as maybe illustrated by many which retain the old form, as well as 22 | LONDON by those which
. London . 1 ICU! Up - ^j OLD TAVERN Bacon as a very good house indeed, though the arrange-ment of the banqueting-room was not exactly as thephilosopher would have it. The College of Christs in its oldform, with the garden square beyond, was still more after themanner recommended by Bacon. It will be seen that we are now a good way removedfrom the Saxon Hall with the people sleeping on the floor,yet Bacons house lineally descends from that the old houses in London were built in this way, as maybe illustrated by many which retain the old form, as well as 22 | LONDON by those which remain. Hampton Court, for instance, builtby Wolsey ; Northumberland Mouse, recently taken down;. - ^^mc!Mis<si!lsMms^1* FRONT OI ^IK PAUL PINDER S HOUSE, ON THE WEST SIDE OFlilSHOISCATK STREET WITHOUT Gresham House, taken down a hundred years ago ; SomersetHouse, still standing, though much altered ; the old Navy TUDOR 225 Office, the court of which still remains ; some of the old alms-houses, notably Trinity Almshouse, in the Whitechapel Road ;Emanuel, Westminster; and the Norfolk Hospital, Greenwich,Grays Inn, Cliffords Inn, Staple Inn, Barnards Inn—whichcontains the oldest house in London—are admirable specimenof Bacons house ; while in the old taverns, of which a fewimperfect specimens still exist, we have the galleries whichBacon would construct within his court. Ift the reign of Elizabeth, while the merchants were grow-lsing richer and increasing in number and in wealth, the great nobles were gradually leaving the city. Those who remained kept up but a remnant of their former splendour. Elizabeth refusetl license for the immense number of retai
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