[160] L'Estrange's Life of Charles I., quoted in D'Israeli's Commentaries on the Life and Reign of Charles I., vol. ii., p. 218.
[162] Steenie--a familiarisation of Stephen. The name was given Buckingham by James I., in reference to the beauty of St. Stephen, whose face, during his martyrdom, is described in the New Testament as shining like that of an angel.
[163] See the account of the Paradise of Glory, in vol. ii., p. 225.
[164] Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq., 2nd edition, vol. i., p. 309.
[167] See three Poems in his Genuine Remains.--_Chalmers's British Poets_, vol. viii., p. 187.
[169] Londinium Redivivum, vol. iv., p. 410.
[170] Gentleman's Magazine for 1793, p. 88.
[171] Memoirs and Correspondence, as above, vol. i., p. 182.
[173] Memoirs and Correspondence, as above, vol. iii., p. 75.
[176] Granger's Biographical History of England, 1824, vol. v., p. 356.
[178] Where he likens Jupiter's house in the Milky Way to the palace of Augustus:--
"Hic locus est, quem, si verbis audacia detur, Haud timeam magni dixisse Palatia coeli." Lib. i. v. 175.
Which Sandys, by a felicitous conceit in the taste of his age (and of Ovid too), has transferred to the palace of Charles the First, and rendered still more applicable to the Milky Way:--
"This glorious roofe I would not doubt to call, Had I but boldness giv'n me, Heaven's _White-Hall_"
[180] It was a joke, probably invented, against a late festive alderman, that some lover of Terence, at a public dinner, having toasted two royal brothers, who were present, under the title of the Adelphi (the Greek word for "brothers"), the Alderman said, that as they were on the subject of streets, "he would beg leave to propose 'Finsbury Square.'"
[184] Near Holland House, Kensington. Addison died in that house.
[185] "York Stairs," says the author of the 'Critical Reviews of Public Buildings,' quoted in 'Brayley's London and Middlesex,' "form unquestionably the most perfect piece of building that does honour to Inigo Jones: it is planned in so exquisite a taste, formed of such equal and harmonious parts, and adorned with such proper and elegant decorations, that nothing can be censured or added. It is at once happy in its situation beyond comparison, and fancied in a style exactly suited to that situation. The rock-work, or rustic, can never be better introduced than in buildings by the side of water; and, indeed, it is a great question whether it ought to have been made use of anywhere else. On the side next the river appear the arms of the Villiers family; and on the north front is inscribed their motto: _Fidei Coticula Crux_,--The Cross is the touch-stone of faith. On this side is a small terrace, planted with lime-trees; the whole supported by a rate raised upon the houses in the neighbouring streets; and being inclosed from the public, forms an agreeable promenade for the inhabitants."