. Walks in London . okshelves on to a lawn whose unbroken slopeof verdure was worthy of the country-house of a in the garden exceeded thirty feet in height; but there wasin abundance all that hollies, and laurels, and hawthorns, and grovesof standard roses, and bowers of lilacs and laburnums could give ofshade, and scent, and colour.—G. O. Jrevelyans Life of LordMacaulay, Beyond Upper PhiUimore Place (right) are the gates ofHolland House^*^ and how many there are who remember,with gratitude, the relief of t irning in from the glare and * Holland IIous« is not shown to t
. Walks in London . okshelves on to a lawn whose unbroken slopeof verdure was worthy of the country-house of a in the garden exceeded thirty feet in height; but there wasin abundance all that hollies, and laurels, and hawthorns, and grovesof standard roses, and bowers of lilacs and laburnums could give ofshade, and scent, and colour.—G. O. Jrevelyans Life of LordMacaulay, Beyond Upper PhiUimore Place (right) are the gates ofHolland House^*^ and how many there are who remember,with gratitude, the relief of t irning in from the glare and * Holland IIous« is not shown to the public. 464 WALKS IN LONDON. dust of the suburb to the shade of its great elm avenue,girt with dewy hayfields, which might be a hundred milesfrom London, and the pleasure of seeing the noble oldhouse, surpassing all other houses in beauty, rising at theend of the green slope, with its richly sculptured terrace,and its cedars, and its vases of brilliant flowers. Holland House was originally built in 1607 by Sir. Holland House. Walter Cope, on land which had belonged to the DeVeres, Earls of Oxford. Sir Walter, who was Gentlemanof the Bedchamber to James I., called it Cope Castle, butit soon changed its name, for his only daughter Isabelmarried Sir Henry Rich, the favourite of the Duke ofBuckingham, described by Clarendon as * a very handsomeman, of a lovely and winning presence, and gentle con-versation,* who was created Lord Kensington in 1622, and ? His noble portrait, by Vandyke, is at Montague House. HOLLAND HOUSE, 465 Earl of Holland in 1624. In the Civil Wars he abandonedthe Parliamentarian for the Royalist cause, and, beingtaken prisoner at St. Neots, was beheaded at Westminster,beautiful to the last, in his white satin dress, on the 9th ofMarch, 1648-9. It was the first Earl of Holland who added the wingsand arcades, in fact who gave Holland House all its charac*teristics. After his execution the house was inhabited byGeneral Fairfax, and (1649) by General Lambert,
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