. Walks in London . ers Hall in Mincing Lane. Returning to Aldersgate Street, Westmoreland Buildings^on the left, mark the site of the town-house of the Nevils,Earls of Westmoreland. On the right of the street, con-spicuous from its front by eight pillars, is a fine oldhouse built by Inigo Jones, formerly called Thanet House,from the Tuftons, Earl of Thanet, but which has beenknown as Shaftesbury House since it wis inhabited by thefirst Earl of Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, the Achitophel of Dryden, so graphically described by him. SHAFTESBURY HOUSE. 265 ** For close designs, and crooked
. Walks in London . ers Hall in Mincing Lane. Returning to Aldersgate Street, Westmoreland Buildings^on the left, mark the site of the town-house of the Nevils,Earls of Westmoreland. On the right of the street, con-spicuous from its front by eight pillars, is a fine oldhouse built by Inigo Jones, formerly called Thanet House,from the Tuftons, Earl of Thanet, but which has beenknown as Shaftesbury House since it wis inhabited by thefirst Earl of Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, the Achitophel of Dryden, so graphically described by him. SHAFTESBURY HOUSE. 265 ** For close designs, and crooked counsels , bold, and turbulent of wit ;Restless, unfixed in principles and place,In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace;A fiery soul, which working out its way,Fretted the pigmy body to decay,And oer-informed the tenement of daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger when the waves went high,He sought the storms ; but, for a calm steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.*. Shaftesbury House, Aldersgate. Lord Shaftesbury chose this house as a residence that hemight the better influence the minds of the citizens, of whomhe boasted that he could raise ten thousand brisk boys bythe holding up of his finger. His animosity to the Duke ofYork obliged his retirement in 1683 to Holland, where hedied. The house, as Maitland says, is a most delightfulfine residence, which deserves a much better situation, andgreater care to preserve it from the injuries of time. Close by was Bacon House, the private residence of Sir 1^ WALKS IN LONDON. Nicholas, father of the great Lord Bacon—the fat old manof whom Qieen Elizabeth used to say my Lord Keeperssoul is well lodged, and of whom so many witticisms areremembered, especially his reply to the thief Hogg, whoclaimed his mercy on plea of kindred between the Hoggsand the Bacons, Ah, you and I cannot be kin until youhave been hanged. Opposite Shaftesbury House was London House, which,being at one time the
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