There are several monuments to the memory of William Chaworth, 1582; Lady Dalhousie, 1663; Anne Killigrew, 1685; Sir Richard Blake, knight, 1683; Sir John Jacob; Robert Burch, 1789; Capt. Thomas Browne, &c.*

The chapel is situate by the churchyard of the Savoy, which stands between the south side of the Strand, and the Thames, and in the county of Middlesex. It is in the gift of the lord high treasurer, or commissioners of the treasury for the time being. The value is uncertain, but computed to be worth by fees, dues, &c. 80l. per annum. The vestry consists of fourteen inhabitants. The officers are, two chapel wardens, and two overseers.

The remarkable places are, two German churches, one of which is a Calvinist, and the other a Lutheran. Barracks for five hundred soldiers; the Savoy prison for deserters and other delinquents of the army, and for securing the recruits. Here is also an handsome infirmary for such of the guards as fall sick, and for three or four officers.

"Few places in London," says Mr. Malcolm, "have ungone a more complete alteration and ruin than the Savoy hospital. According to the plates published by the Society of Antiquaries in 1750, it was a most respectable and excellent building, erected on the south side literally in the Thames. This front contained several projections, and two rows of angular mullioned windows. Northward of this was the Friery; a court formed by the walls of the body of the hospital, whose ground plan was the shape of the cross. This was more ornamented than the south front; and had large pointed windows, and embattled parapets, lozenged with flints. At the west end of the hospital is the

In the first year of the reign of queen Anne, commissioners were appointed to visit the hospital, who were seven lords spiritual, and as many lords temporal: the commission was opened by Sir Nathan Wright, then lord-keeper of the great seal; and three of the brethren, or chaplains, were discharged, because they had other benefices, as was also the fourth, by reason he was a teacher of a separate congregation; and the hospital dissolved.

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present Guard House, used as a receptacle for deserters*; and the quarters for thirty men, and non-commissioned of ficers. This is secured by a strong buttress, and has a gateway, embellished with Henry the Seventh's arms, and the badges of the rose and portcullis; above which are two windows, projecting into a semi-sexagon." The whole has at present indications of rapid decay. The descent from the Strand is by two flights of stone steps, nearly to the depth of three stories of a dwelling house.

Before this place became the possession of the earl of Savoy, it had been the mansion of Simon de Montfort, earl of Leicester, one of the factious barons, in the reign of Henry III. It was also the place of honourable confinement of John, king of France, in 1356, after the battle of Poictiers. After his release he made a visit to his brother in 1363, and died in this, his antient prison, on the following 8th of April.

DENMARK COURT. Here is a handsome synagogue for Jews; many of whom reside in the neighbourhood.

BEAUFORT BUILDINGS are built on the site of a very spacious house, with a garden towards the Thames, and waste grounds and yards eastward, called WORCESTER HOUSE. Before the erection of that structure, there appears to have been another, with an extensive garden, in which grew a large walnut tree, which obstructed the eastern prospect of Salisbury House. The earl of Salisbury, therefore, by himself or agent, applied to Edward, earl of Worcester's gardener, with the promise of 100l. if he could obtain his lordship's consent to remove the tree. The gardener's lord gave his consent, with respect to the tree; but having a grudge to the earl of Salisbury, he caused to be built in its place, the large brick house we are noticing, which effectually deprived the earl of Salisbury of the prospect. This house descending to Henry, duke of Beaufort; his grace finding it ruinous from its antiquity,

* Mr. Howard gives a very indifferent account of the state and accommodations of this gaol, in his "State of Prisons," &c. 8vo. 1780.

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let the premises rather than build a new structure; the steepness of the descent also, rendering it improper and unsafe for carriages. The duke had bought Buckingham House, at Chelsea, whither he had removed for purer air; but thought it necessary to have a smaller dwelling, for the purpose of temporary residence in town. This was burnt through the carelessness of a servant, and out of the ruins were formed Beaufort Buildings, and the adjoining avenues.

In Worcester House, lived the great earl of Clarendon, before his own was built, and he paid for it the extravagant rent of 500/. per annum.

SOUTHAMPTON STREET is so called in compliment to lady Rachel, the excellent consort of William, lord Russel, and daughter of Thomas Wrottesley, earl of Southampton.

Hence is a spacious avenue to CONVENT GARDEN; vulgarly COVENT GARDEN.

The ground on which this parish is built was formerly fields, thatched houses, and stables. The garden belonged to the abbot and monks of Westminster, whence it was called Convent Garden, a name since corrupted into Covent, and sometimes Common Garden. At the dissolution of religious houses it fell to the crown, and was given first to Edward, duke of Somerset; but soon after upon his attainder, reverted to the crown, and Edward VI. granted it in 1552 to John earl of Bedford, together with a field, named the SEVEN ACRES, which being afterwards built into a street, is from its length called LONG ACRE.

Here is a large square called Covent Garden market. It contains three acres of ground, and is the best market in England for herbs, fruit, and flowers. It is surrounded by a wooden rail, and a column was formerly erected in the middle, on the top of which were four sun-dials. There is a magnificent piazza on the north side of this square, de signed by Inigo Jones, which, if carried round, according to the plan of the architect, would have rendered it beyond dispute one of the finest squares in Europe. There