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repetition this has not been reproduced. Here the Banqueting Hall is prominent; other important buildings are as follows: To extreme left in background a louvred structure is the Great Hall, Whitehall, more clearly visible in Wijck's view from the river, No. 91. Facing park we see the old Guard House as in No. 87. The upper portions of Holbein Gate-house and of a battlemented structure are also visible; for description of the latter and of the great staircase see note on No. 96. A large brick building some distance to right preceded Kent's Treasury, both occupying the site of Henry VIII's Cockpit, which still remained when No. 96 was painted. Little is known about the brick building; it appears in views by Kip, 1710 and 1720, and in an illustration for J. T. Smith's "Antiquities of Westminster," from a picture resembling this. There are also slight sketches of it in vol. ii of Lond. Top. Society's Records, illustrating a paper by the late Mr. Walter B. Spiers, Soane Curator, who made a special study of Whitehall. In foreground of our view, among bewigged and gaily-apparelled figures, a black woman and a black page are prominent.

Lent by Mary, Countess of Ilchester.

90 OLD LONDON BRIDGE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY FROM SOUTHWARK.

Oil picture. 41 by 27-1/2 in.

View of old London Bridge, of City of London, and part of Southwark, before the Great Fire. In foreground, beginning on west or left side, the following playhouses are shown in their order: the Swan, destroyed about 1633, the Hope or Bear Garden, and the second Globe. The turreted building below the Swan was the old Manor House of Paris Garden. In the reign of Charles I it got a bad reputation, and was called Holland's Leaguer from a woman who occupied it. The next important building is the hall of the Bishop of Winchester's house. Then St. Saviour's, originally church of Priory of St. Mary Overy, and now Southwark Cathedral. Passing bridge, on right, is the church of St. Olave, Tooley Street, replaced by present structure (lately closed) in 1737-39. On Middlesex side, old St. Paul's has lost its spire, fatally injured by lightning in 1561.

There is no space to describe bridge in detail. Before removal of houses under Act of Parliament 1756, it was most picturesque, but