. Walks in London . el Inn in Wych Street that Bishop Hooper,ill 1554? was taken to die for his faith at Gloucester. A hosiers shop, which occupies one of three picturesquehouses built in the time of Charles I. in the Strand parallelwith Holywell Street, has an old street sign of theGolden Lamb swinging over its door. The streets whichdebouch here from the Strand—Surrey Street, NorfolkStreet, and Howard Street—mark the site of ArundelHouse, originally the palace of the Bishops of Bath andWells, in which, according to the parish register of Chelsea,died (February 25th, 1603) Catherine, Countess
. Walks in London . el Inn in Wych Street that Bishop Hooper,ill 1554? was taken to die for his faith at Gloucester. A hosiers shop, which occupies one of three picturesquehouses built in the time of Charles I. in the Strand parallelwith Holywell Street, has an old street sign of theGolden Lamb swinging over its door. The streets whichdebouch here from the Strand—Surrey Street, NorfolkStreet, and Howard Street—mark the site of ArundelHouse, originally the palace of the Bishops of Bath andWells, in which, according to the parish register of Chelsea,died (February 25th, 1603) Catherine, Countess of Notting-ham, who yielded to her husbands solicitation in not send<«ing the ring intrusted to her by Lord Essex for Elizabeth, 46 JVALKS IN LONDON, and confessing this to the Queen upon her deathbed, wasanswered by God may forgive you, but I never house was sold by Edward VI. to his uncle, LordThomas Seymour, described by Latimer as a man thefurthest from the fear of God that ever he knew or heard. meyi^ Wych Street. of in England. Here he married and greatly ill-treatedthe Quecn-Dowager Katherine Parr, and incurred muchcensure for his impertinent familiarities with the PrmcessElizabeth, who was living under her protection. After theexecution of Seymour for treason the house was sold to theEarl of Arundel, and being thenceforth called Arundel House, NORFOLK STREET, 4) became the receptacle of his busts and statues, a portionof which, now at Oxford, are still known as the * ArundelMarbles. It was Lord Arundel who brought up OldParr to London from Shropshire to make acquaintance withCharles L, when far advanced in his hundred and fifty-thirdyear. The Earls good fare killed him, and he was buriedin Westminster Abbey, where his epitaph narrates how helived in the reign of ten sovereigns, and had a son by hissecond wife when he was a hundred and twenty years the Great Fire, Henry Howard, Earl of Aru«del, gavea shelter at Arundel House to the Royal Socie
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