. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. would seem to be the irrevocable fateof all the great houses in London either sooner orlater. The house, in 1717, was converted intoauction-rooms, but was demolished in 1773. Thename of Lord Bateman is still kept up here by arow of narrow houses called Batemans Buildings,connecting the south side of the Square with QueenStreet. But the unfortunate duke has not been so Soho Square.] A FASHIONABLE RENDEZVOUS. 187 lucky: for a time his name lived on in Mon-mouth Street, St. Giless; but since it had obtaineda bad name a
. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. would seem to be the irrevocable fateof all the great houses in London either sooner orlater. The house, in 1717, was converted intoauction-rooms, but was demolished in 1773. Thename of Lord Bateman is still kept up here by arow of narrow houses called Batemans Buildings,connecting the south side of the Square with QueenStreet. But the unfortunate duke has not been so Soho Square.] A FASHIONABLE RENDEZVOUS. 187 lucky: for a time his name lived on in Mon-mouth Street, St. Giless; but since it had obtaineda bad name as the resort of Jew dealers in ragsand old clothes, the thoroughfare was re-christenedDudley Street; the old clothes, however, have notpassed away along with the unsavoury name. Of of the Howards, Earls of Carlisle (a branch of theducal house of Norfolk), the head of whom wasliving, in the middle of the last century, in a houseon the east side of the square. The mansion,which was built in the reign of James II., originallystood in the midst of a garden, the extent of which. MONMOUTH HOUSE. this Lord Bateman, Horace Walpole tells the storythat George I. created him an Irish peer to avoidmaking him a Knight of the Bath ; for, said hismajesty, with the wit of Charles II., I can makehim a lord, but I cannot make him a Lord Batemans house was pulled down,it was let by him to various persons in the higherranks of society. Among others, the French am-bassador was residing in it in 1791-2. In Carlisle Street we have perpetuated the name it would be difficult to define at the present lower walls of the house were of red brickand on the lead-work of the cisterns was the date1669. The mansion in its original condition musthave had a magnificent appearance, with its marble-floored hall, its superbly decorated staircases, andits large and lofty rooms with enriched ceilings. Towards the close of the last century it wastenanted by the celebrated Mrs. Cornelys, whotur
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