. Il vecchio e il nuovo London : un racconto della sua storia, della sua gente e dei suoi luoghi. spettano fino al itwas concesso da Elisabetta a Sir William Cecil, herLord tesoriere, che ingrandita e parzialmente ricostruito,e la chiamò Burleigh o Cecil House. Accord-ing per Pennant, Burleigh House è stato un nobile pila,costruita con mattoni e ornata con quattro squareturrets. Come appare da antichi piani, facedthe Strand, i suoi giardini che si estendono dal lato ovest del giardino a piedi di Wimbledon House(quasi dove gira ora Wellington Street) a SE4 vecchi e nuovi di Londra. [L'Stmnd ; green lane verso ovest, che ora è Southam

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. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. vested until itwas granted by Elizabeth to Sir William Cecil, herLord Treasurer, who enlarged and partly rebuilt it, and called it Burleigh or Cecil House. Accord-ing to Pennant, Burleigh House was a noble pile, built with brick, and adorned with four squareturrets. As appears from ancient plans, it facedthe Strand, its gardens extending from the westside of the garden walk of Wimbledon House(nearly where now runs Wellington Street) to the if4 OLD AND NEW LONDON. [The Stmnd ; green lane westwards, which now is SouthamptonStreet. Cecil, when he became Lord Burleigh, washonoured in this house by a visit from QueenElizabeth, who, knowing him to be a martyr tothe gout, would allow him to sit in her presence. of wire, lace, ribbons, and jewels, which shot upto so great a height, and made part of the fashionof the day ; for, when the principal esquire in at-tendance ushered her into the house, he suggestedto her Majesty to stoop. For your masterssake, I will stoop, she replied haughtily, but. Tin: ULIi AlJF.I.rUI TUEAT2E. This was, of course, a great concession from suchan inii)erious queen, even to such a favourite ; andwlien lie would apologise for the weak state of hislegs, her ^L1jesty would playfully remark, My lord, we make use of you not for the badness of yourlegs, but for the goodness of your head. Allenremarks, in his History of London, that inall probability when she came to Burleigh House, the queen wore that pyramidical head-dress, built not for the King of Spain. Lord Burleigh spentmost of his days between this house and hiscountry residence at Theobalds, in Hertfordshire.At his house in London, we learn from theDesiderata Curiosa, he kept ordinarily in house-hold fourscore persons besides .... Euch asattended him at court. The charge of his house-keeping in London amounted to thirty pounds aweek, a very large sum indeed in those days, Northern Tributaries.] BENEFACTIONS OF LORD BURLEI

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