[70] The pretty garden of Clement’s Inn is now being built over, and the garden house will soon disappear behind bricks and mortar. The black kneeling figure supporting a sundial, which formerly decorated the lawn (having been brought from Italy and presented to the Inn by one of the Earls of Clare), was sold by the Ancients in 1884 for twenty guineas, and has now found its way to Inner Temple Gardens.
[71] Lord Clarendon says of this second Earl: ‘He was a man of honour and of courage, and would have been an excellent person if his heart had not been so much set upon keeping and improving his estate.’
[72] From Mr. Austin Dobson I learn that Hogarth engraved a view of Clare Market.
[73] He wrote MS. memoirs of the Holles family, afterwards transcribed by Arthur Collins.
[74] This Act appears to have been a dead letter. In 1580 Queen Elizabeth had issued an equally vain proclamation to prevent the erection of new buildings within three miles of the City gates.
[75] M. Jusserand gives amusing instances in his excellent new work on ‘A French Ambassador at the Court of Charles II.’
[76] There is a view of it in Strype’s Stow (1754), which shows a sculptured phœnix over the doorway. The phœnix in the porch of No. 40, Great Ormond Street suggests the possibility of some connection with this house.
[77] ‘Annals of Tennis,’ 1878.
[78] Some of these servants, however, must have been exceedingly active. In the London Evening Post for December 31, 1735, we are told that ‘General Churchill’s Running Footman ran against the Lady Molesworth’s, from the upper end of St. James’s Street to Edgworth Gate,’ and won, performing the distance, computed to be about eleven miles, in an hour and five minutes.
[79] He is Volpone in Pope’s ‘Moral Essay’: